- Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground
cartoonist . A member, along withSkip Williamson ,Jay Lynch andR. Crumb , of the original "Bijou Funnies " crew, Kinney also edited "Young Lust" in the early 1970s withBill Griffith . He later founded the political comic "Anarchy Comics ", which was published through the early 1980s. Though a member of the first wave of the American underground comix movement, Kinney largely moved away from cartooning after the 1980s, first as editor of "CoEvolution Quarterly " from 1983 to 1984, and then as publisher and editor in chief of the magazine "Gnosis" from 1985 to 1999. Since the end of "Gnosis", Kinney has written two books and edited an anthology, all focusing on aspects of Western esoteric traditions.Books
*"The Best of Bijou Funnies" (Quick Fox, 1975)
*"Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions", with Richard Smoley (Quest Books, 2006)
*"The Inner West: An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004)
*"The Masonic Enigma" (HarperSanFrancisco, forthcoming 2008)External links
* [http://www.jaykinney.com/ Jay Kinney's web site]
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kinney_jay.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia]
* [http://www.gnosismagazine.com/ Gnosis Magazine's web site]
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/10/05/is-the-net-good-for-writers/ "Is the Internet Good for Writers?"]
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