1991 War News - Gonzo Journalism 

THIS IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT - PRESS RELEASE - of the Publication War news 

This is a double-sided copy. 11x17 - the back has an Odd Bodkins cartoon by Dan O'Neill 

Has general aging of paper which has sat in a box. Edges have slight color variations. See pictures for detail. 

Item has been stored folded in half, and will ship folded in half. 

EXTREMELY RARE 

*RARE* Counterculture Publication from the Gulf War

“There was once in this fair and compassionate city an urgently topical publication called War News. Publication began on March 2, 1991 and ceased on March 16, 1991 with a circulation of 200,000. War News’ purpose was to oppose the Gulf War, and, when the war ended, it ended.

“The antiwar newspaper was an instant product of San Francisco’s antiwar culture that made the city the epicenter of Vietnam War protests. It was largely a creation of the city’s famous underground-comics artists of the ’70s–Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Dan O’Neil, Gilbert Shelton, Winston Smith, and Ron Turner of Last Gasp Books, and writers included Hunter Thompson, Daniel Ellsberg, Andrew Kopkind, Ishamel Reed, Barbara Ehrenreich, and novelist John Berger. I was the editor of War News, which was financed by the Mitchell Brothers from their porn profits; it was a very San Francisco thing.

“Bombs don’t come from the stork; they come from the IRS, from personal income taxes.” —Hunter S. Thompson in San Francisco’s War News

“There were few Gulf War supporters in town —I seem to recall state senator Quentin Kopp and political consultant Jack Davis (when they were still speaking) waving little U.S. flags dork-like at a military parade— but most city politicos denounced the war and there were massive street protests; being against the invasion of Iraq in 1991 was as natural to San Francisco as summer fog.”

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