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living as any kind of a writer, let alone a “rock journalist.” and the people who created it, seriously. Now everybody writes about rock and roll that way. Jules was one of the people who did it first. He died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. He was a brilliant author, but neither Rolling Stone nor the New York Times honored him with an obituary. Not even a fake one. COMIX Art Spiegelman tells me his work at Cava/rer 50 years ago: | 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. It was around the time Vaughn Bode was made a _ regular contributor to the magazine, They were running some Crumb “Fritz the Cat” pages. All thanks to their hip, laid back and kind editor, Alan LeMond. | also did some gag cartoons, short strips and occasional illustrations for Cava/ier(one especially bad drawing for a story by Bruce Jay Friedman, | recall). My work as an apprentice underground cartoonist taking too many drugs was really, really HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024379