Neurotica Magazine.

[jaylynch]

Neurotica was a fanzine published by Jay Landsman from l948 through the mid '50s.  This and other publications like it formed some kind of foundation for the later Beat press...and the even later Underground press.

So it would make sense that SOMEBODY on this forum might have gotten past the "comic" thing...and has focused their collection instead on the free press thing, right?   

Does any one own a copy of the l950s ish of NEUROTICA wherein a subscription list telling the cities and profressions of their 80 or so subscribers appears?  I'm pretty sure this list only appears in issues of the original fanzine...and not in the books which came out later of collections of material from NEUROTICA.

[jaylynch]

OK.  So I read that stuff that Crumb has been doing in the New Yorker lately...and I think, "What has all of this come to".  And now I see this fictional high-tone interview thing here http://www.swans.com/library/art14/pbyrne77.html   and I think that maybe there is some kind of weird trend of thought going on among today's so-called intelligencia.  Read this interview, kids.  And discuss.

[jaylynch]

Now back to G. Legman.  Here is his book from 1967 about the hippie revolution.  http://www.ep.tc/legman-thefakerevolt/  The whole book is online here for your reading pleasure.

[wpbooks]

I have a hard time reading long texts/treatises on line so I'll wait until a hard copy crosses my path, Jay.  Until then I'll pull down my copies of Rationale Of The Dirty Joke, No Laughing Matter, The Limerick and Love and Death, and peruse them waiting for that to happen.  BTW, if you are interested in a decent copy of Oragenitalism in paperback, I believe I have a copy on line at my website: westportalbooks.com.  Cheap thrills to be sure! G was quite the historian, and I've been saluting him since I was a teen and found Rationale in my Granpa's libarry.......