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People
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Organizations
1
Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes

Document Information

Type: Memoir draft / correspondence attachment
File Size: 1.84 MB
Summary

This document appears to be an excerpt from a memoir or personal essay written around 2019 (referencing 'Midnight Cowboy' as 50 years ago). The narrator, an underground cartoonist active in the late 1960s and 70s, recounts working for 'Cavalier' magazine and its sister publications ('Dude', 'Gent', 'Nugget'). The text details drug use (magic mushrooms), professional connections to other cartoonists like Spain Rodriguez and Bill Griffith, and includes a Wikipedia definition of Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'. While stamped with 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT', the text itself contains no direct references to Jeffrey Epstein or his associates.

People (9)

Name Role Context
Narrator Cartoonist/Writer
Author of the text, recounting experiences in the 1960s/70s underground comix scene.
Spain Rodriguez Cartoonist
Described as a 'San Francisco comix crony' of the narrator.
Bill Griffith Cartoonist
Described as a 'San Francisco comix crony' of the narrator.
Justin Greene Cartoonist
Described as a 'San Francisco comix crony' of the narrator.
Alan Associate
Someone the narrator got illustration gigs with for magazines.
LeMond Editor
Editor of Cavalier magazine, described as 'hip, laid back and kind'.
Crumb Cartoonist
Reference to Robert Crumb and his 'Fritz the Cat' pages running in the magazine.
Bruce Jay Friedman Author
Author of a story the narrator illustrated.
Art Spiegelman Cartoonist
Subject of a Wikipedia note inserted into the text regarding the graphic novel 'Maus'.

Organizations (6)

Name Type Context
Cavalier
Magazine the narrator worked for.
Dude
Magazine, described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
Gent
Magazine, described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
Nugget
Magazine, described as a 'low-rent sister mag' to Cavalier.
Wikipedia
Source of an inserted note about 'Maus'.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024927'.

Timeline (3 events)

1969
Narrator invited to do two full-color comix pages for Cavalier magazine.
Cavalier Magazine
Circa 1969
Narrator attended screenings of the movie Midnight Cowboy.
Movie Theater
Circa 1969/1970s
Narrator fired by Cavalier magazine.
Cavalier Magazine
Narrator Cavalier Magazine

Locations (1)

Location Context
Mentioned in relation to 'San Francisco comix cronies'.

Relationships (2)

Narrator Professional/Friend Spain Rodriguez
Referred to as 'comix cronies'.
Narrator Professional LeMond
LeMond was the editor who hired the narrator.

Key Quotes (4)

"I recall that Midnight Cowboy was 50 years ago."
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"The first one I would go stoned with magic mushrooms. The second one I took notes."
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"My work in 1969, as an apprentice underground cartoonist taking too many drugs was really, really awful"
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Quote #3
"COMIiNG AND GOING"
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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.]
COMIiNG AND GOING
I wrote some movie reviews for Cavalier. I recall that Midnight Cowboy was 50 years ago. I
always went to two screenings. The first one I would go stoned with magic mushrooms. The
second one I took notes. However, I got fired by Cavalier.
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