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9
People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Document Information
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Memoir/narrative excerpt (legal discovery exhibit)
File Size:
1.72 MB
Summary
This document page, stamped with a House Oversight footer, appears to be an excerpt from a memoir or personal narrative by a cartoonist reflecting on their career in the late 1960s and 1970s. The text details the author's work for magazines like *Cavalier*, *Dude*, and *Gent*, their professional relationship with editor Alan LeMond, and their association with other underground cartoonists like Spain Rodriguez and Bill Griffith. It includes a bracketed Wikipedia note defining Art Spiegelman's *Maus*.
People (9)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Thomas Pynchon | Writer |
Mentioned as a contributor to the magazine the author was proud to be in.
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| Manny Farber | Writer/Artist |
Mentioned as a contributor to the magazine.
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| Alan LeMond | Editor |
Described as 'hip, laid back and kind editor' of Cavalier who gave the author and friends work.
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| Spain Rodriguez | Cartoonist |
Described as a 'comix crony' of the author.
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| Bill Griffith | Cartoonist |
Described as a 'comix crony' of the author.
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| Justin Greene | Cartoonist |
Described as a 'comix crony' of the author.
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| Robert Crumb | Cartoonist |
Referred to as 'Crumb'; magazine ran his 'Fritz the Cat' pages.
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| Bruce Jay Friedman | Writer |
Author did a drawing for a story by him.
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| Art Spiegelman | Cartoonist |
Subject of a Wikipedia note regarding his graphic novel 'Maus'.
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Organizations (6)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Cavalier |
Magazine the author contributed to.
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| Dude |
Described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
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| Gent |
Described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
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| Nugget |
Described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
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| Wikipedia |
Source cited for the note on Maus.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Inferred from footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (2 events)
1969
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
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Location of the author's 'comix cronies'; abbreviated as S.F. in repetition.
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Relationships (4)
LeMond was the editor who hired the author for illustration gigs.
Described as 'comix cronies'.
Described as 'comix cronies'.
Described as 'comix cronies'.
Key Quotes (3)
"I was proud to be in a mag that published pieces by Pynchon, Manny Farber and you."Source
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"My work in 1969, as an apprentice underground cartoonist taking too many drugs was really, really awful"Source
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"All thanx to their hip, laid back and kind editor LeMond."Source
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hip and laid-back kindness. But, hey, I was proud to be in a mag that published pieces by Pynchon, Manny Farber and you.
By the time I'd gotten incrementally better as a cartoonist in the first half of the 1970s I was regularly doing illustrations for soft-core fiction stories in Cavalier's low-rent sister mags, Dude, Gent and Nugget (even wrote a story or two there and got several of my San Francisco comix cronies (Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith and Justin Greene) illustration gigs with Alan for those mags as well.
I was first invited into the mag to do two full-color comix pages in 1969 (when being printed in color was a Very Big Deal for me as was Getting Paid more than 25 bucks for a drawing), somehow in proximity to a big article on underground comix. They were running some Crumb “Fritz the Cat” pages. All thanx to their hip, laid back and kind editor LeMond. I also did some gag cartoons, short strips and occasional illustrations for Cavalier (one especially bad drawing for a story by Bruce Jay Friedman).
My work in 1969, as an apprentice underground cartoonist taking too many drugs was really, really awful so I'm grateful for the editor's hip and laid-back kindness. By the time I'd gotten incrementally better as a cartoonist in the first half of the 1970s I was regularly doing illustrations for soft-core fiction stories, even wrote a story or two there and got several of my S.F. comix cronies (Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith and Justin Greene) illustration gigs with Alan for those mags as well.
[Note in Wikipedia: Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. In 1992, Maus won a Pulitzer Prize.]
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