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THANK YOU, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: JOHN WILCOCK COMIC IN NY MAG APPROVAL MATRIX | SUGGESTED MUSIC: THE BUREAU! |
First time visiting this site? MAIN ITEM: ILLEGAL COLOR: Spoken Video with Electronics TV — A continuation of SWWE, now in Video-Sensory format! Surprising and Unforgettable Colors. Visual Illusions! TUNE IN! | Comics with Problems A comic to cure EVERY problem - From 1940s messages on Communism to other present-day hysteria. Featured on Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, The Rachel Maddow Show, Metafilter, Jezebel, Wonkette, CSPAN and Air America. CLASSIC OLD WEB. Look Back in Horror: TRUMP TRACTS or PALIN LIPSTICK |
The Realist Archive As heard on WTF with Marc Maron, and recognized by the Webby Awards. Archive of Paul Krassner's groundbreaking 1960s counterculture satire magazine. Every issue scanned, restored, and viewable for free. Lenny Bruce, Robert Anton Wilson, others. Read the Fantagraphics collection, the result of a ten-year restoration project:
THE REALIST CARTOONS By Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff NEW ADDITION: Read the OTHER SCENES ARCHIVE! A complete in-order republishing of this classic counterculture paper. Now Mostly Complete. |
Spoken Word with Electronics Electronics and Conversations. View on Bandcamp |
For a list of personal projects (bio, CV, list of music and comics, etc) - click here. To peruse available rare comics and other material on this site, Click for a list of menus.
Two more items:
Remembering Barney Rosset (good friend) |
ETHAN PERSOFF, INTL TARIFF EXPERT
2025-2026 UPDATEJanuary 2026 NEW YEAR. New project: Charlie Pickle is now a subreddit on Reddit. Includes hundreds of new residents and 30+ excerpts. Two updates a week. Postmodern fiction from a permanent 1998. Visit and subscribe at: http://www.reddit.com/r/CharliePickle
NOVEMBER NEWS: This is kind of wild and not a joke: I'm in the Epstein Files! This is a lengthy interview I did with Paul Krassner in 2017, that apparently was part of Epstein's property, released by his estate and the GOP: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638.txt.pdf
(link is to a public google drive provided by COURIER but you can seek out the file by its unique identifiers anywhere else the files are hosted. It is HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 through HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023642 in the GOP's recent 20,000 document data dump. The content of the interview is very progressive and it's certainly amusing it was selected by GOP for amplification. It's also kind of insane. I'll post the images of the actual printed pages that were apparently in possesion of Epstein himself. Try that shiver on! It's like they always say: Never meet your readers! I'll post the imagery, a.k.a. the image-based evidence, here soon. (snap) The Aristocrats!
But a very strange life moment, I hope you'll agree.
Previously:
Hi, everyone! As I write this, the world is falling apart. Theft of country! It's so exhausting. I hope you are well. Some good projects:
EVERGREEN REVIEW coffee table book from Fantagraphics. A cover-by-cover survey of the original run of Evergreen Review, with numerous essays, original ads, and a lot more. I am happy to see this. I have a lengthy essay in the book, recalling my time working for Evergreen, and this collection publishes numerous photos I took of Barney Rosset's loft, including treasured moments looking through the archive of correspondance to Burroughs over Naked Lunch, Beckett's last known photo, Barney admiring his FBI file, and more. Check the book out for that, but really treat yourself to the whole book: Praise to Pat Thomas for this effort! More information here. This was a many-years endeavor.
October 2025 CHARLIE PICKLE issue six soon! I'm finishing up the next Charlie Pickle book. It will be oversized and catch up all the writing to the original audio recordings, which means 2026 (if the earth gets there) will be a year of new content to begin completing the series. Thanks for your patience if you've been there from the start. All the books are available at http://ep.tc/books - and a very important plug for small portable story-sized segments that I'm posting now on Reddit, new updates every Monday (I mean it) at reddit.com/r/CharliePickle"Instructions for Someone to Enter Your Home While Your Are Inside Sleeping"
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DUMMY ISSUE TWO - AIR PIRATES Very happy to be included in the second issue of John Kelly's DUMMY, which I provided some hi-res images of the Disney Memorial Orgy and was an interview subject. I also did some uncredited research for the issue, which you'll see reflected throughout in the Air Pirates pages and a few other spots. See the statistic on Disney lawsuits on the last page for an example of that. A good regard to John on what's emerging to be one of the best comics-related magazines in many decades.
A good interview with Gabriel Kennedy: I'm late in posting this but Gabriel Kennedy interviewed me for his excellent podcast, PROP ANON, which is a gem box of incredible episodes and interview subjects. Check the whole show archive out here. My episode is titled Ethan Persoff and the Wisdom of Subversion: An Interview which I thank him for (such flattery!) A very gifted biographer, Kennedy has worked for years (decades?) on a biography of Robert Anton Wilson. It is an immense tribute, long needed, deserving of being in every college library, on the life and exploits of RAW, cleverly titled "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson". Read about it here.
SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS TV (SWWE TV for short)
After practicing with broadcast gear enough to feel competent, I've started a Youtube channel. I'm a little late to the game on this, apparently, as I read there are a few other billion of you on Youtube. But this show is different. This show is meant to not make sense. This show is a refreshing dip into acid ideas and fun hallucinatory visuals. Video synthesis on old gear, pressing illegal color (the actual broadcast term that blends sound and video together into a bleed) and I'm having a blast. You're very encouraged to check out the channel, subscribe, and share. I'm completing about one new episode every month. Here's the first few:
Issue five of Charlie Pickle now available in print and digital. More on this below. I have a few more projects to describe here and wanted to refresh the front page as it's been a while.
Thank you, especially if you're protesting.
CHARLIE PICKLE BOOKS
"Fascinating accounts of a world that is utterly plain, yet completely absurd. - - John H Morehouse
"Off-beat, funny, typographically inventive and artfully produced. " - - Ken Kalfus
Charlie Pickle is a novel I've been writing for about 20 years. It began as a comic but widened into a full series of texts. It is a book about madness, focusing on a small city in Texas named Clarence. Each book is packed with art, easter eggs, puzzles, mind games, and a lot of love. You'll want them in print! Readers mention how much they love the books as objects. Here's the five volumes out right now, with a large sixth book planned to catch the series up, due end of year:
A pretty good run of Boing Boing posts:
this list is getting updated
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