Born on on the moment in 1914: Beat author and artist William S. Burroughs (Junkie, Uncommon, Bare Lunch (I will mediate of two issues spoiled with that title), The London Trilogy, The Red Evening Trilogy and more), who, alongside with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and others, constructed the tropes, literature, and suggestions of the Beat Technology. With out which we have not got had the Beatles. Reminder to myself: must double take a look at this conceivable reality in my learn.
Possibly most seriously, The Beat Technology battled Technology X! I indicate literally! Burroughs is the rectangular-spectacled chap in the fourth and sixth panel. Wager his agent didn’t kind out Wonder as well as Ginsberg’s and Keruoac’s!
from “Technology X vs. The Beat Technology” in Technology X Underground #1 one-shot (Wonder, Would possibly perchance well 1998), by Jim Mahfood
Burroughs pops up in Alan Moore’s “any one who ever had the rest to make with Cthulhu-ly literature” saga Providence:
from Providence #11 (Avatar, November 2016), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by Jacen Burrows, colours by Juan Manuel Rodriguez, letters by Kurt Hathaway
And he appears in Ales Kot and Robert Sammelin stuffed-by-the-center with a tunnel of psychomagic comical Zero:
from Zero #17 (Image, June 2015), script by Ales Kot, pencils and inks by Robert Sammelin, colours by Jordie Bellaire, letters by Clayton Cowles
He even meets Patti Smith, which, hi there, is one thing we have all aspired to.
If reality be told, the sequence is devoted to William S. Burroughs.
from Zero #18 (Image, July 2015), script by Ales Kot, pencils and inks by Robert Sammelin, colours by Jordie Bellaires
Overjoyed birthday, WIlliam Burroughs! Within the phrases of Sonny and Cher, the Beat goes on.
from The Full Crumb Comics v.16: The Mid-Nineteen Eighties: Extra Years of Valorous Strive against (Fantagraphics, July 2002), by Robert Crumb