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JOHN WILCOCK: New York Years 1954-71

by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall

A 232-pg authorized graphic biography and interview with the Greenwich Village writer, publisher, organizer and raconteur John Wilcock (1927-2018). Co-founder of The Village Voice, Andy Warhol's Inter/view, the international Underground Press Syndicate, and best-selling travel writer. A chronicle of the amazing life and times of a man who The New York Times once called "sui generis", and the adventures he had with some legendary cultural figures of the era. JOHN WILCOCK: New York Years was originally serialized online at EP.TC and BoingBoing.net, and selected pages have appeared in print in The American Bystander, and The Best American Comics, ed. by Ben Katchor and Bill Kartalopoulos, Houghton Mifflin, 2017

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How Warhol's InterView began
The Underground Press Syndicate, 1966

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