Underground newspaper
The Staff was an underground newspaper published in Los Angeles in the 1970s, printing many anti-war articles, and also covering the music scene and popular culture.
Publication history
The Staff came into existence as a result of the temporary demise of the Los Angeles Free Press, which had been founded and published by Art Kunkin; much of the staff of the Free Press, led by managing editor Brian Kirby and art director Phil Wilson, left to form their own newspaper, calling it The Staff.[1]
They first moved into quarters on Santa Monica Boulevard near Cahuenga Boulevard, in Hollywood, California. They later relocated to Hollywood Boulevard, just west of Western Avenue, in offices above a movie theater that was at that time showing softcore pornography.[1]
The Staff staff and contributors
- Brian Kirby, editor
- Philip Wilson, art director/publisher
- Mark Oberhofer, advertising sales/circulation
- Bob Chorush, columnist
- Mark Coppos, photographer
- Ridgely Cummings, writer
- Clay Geerdes, photographer and writer — wrote regularly for the paper on the underground comix industry, as well as supplying some photographs[2]
- Lenny Marcus, writer
- Tom Moran, writer
- Bill Morrison, writer
- Thomas Warkentin, cartoonist
- Joyce Widoff, photographer
- Kim Gottlieb-Walker, photographer[3]
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