John Bryan (journalist)

Six months later, in September 1968, there was a second obscenity bust over the short story "Skinny Dynamite" by Jack Micheline, about the sexual antics of an underage girl, in Renaissance 2, a literary supplement to Open City edited by Bukowski.

After the paper folded, Bukowski published a satirical and cruel fictional account of Open City in Evergreen Review under the title "The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper.

Published in the large broadsheet format, each issue was fronted by a two-page section of underground comix edited by Willy Murphy and printed in full color.

Contributors to The Sunday Paper included some of the top underground cartoonists of that era: Murphy, Larry Todd, Gilbert Shelton, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Bobby London, Bill Griffith, Shary Flenniken, Ted Richards, Jay Lynch, and Art Spiegelman.

)[4] One of Bryan's last underground publications was Appeal to Reason, and his final newspaper was Peace News, which was published in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks and distributed at anti-war rallies.

In addition to his newspaper work, Bryan also published three books: Trans (Essex House, 1969), a novel, under the pseudonym "Jerry Anderson"; Whatever Happened To Timothy Leary?