Bugle (newspaper) journalism students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The tongue-in-cheek name was inspired by that of the "Daily Bugle", the fictional newspaper published by Spider-Man-hater J. Jonah Jameson. Because of Kitchen's interest in underground comics, the "Bugle" featured a comics page with the works of both local artists like Kitchen, Jim Mitchell, Don Glassford, Bruce Walthers, and Wendel Pugh, and work by nationally known artists like Robert Crumb. For a time Kitchen syndicated these strips to about fifty college and alternative papers around the country. On February 22, 1975, the "Bugle's" office on Bremen Street on the East Side was firebombed.
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself brothers thus share their childhood flat, which is next door to the bookshop their father left them. Uninterested in the family business, Wilbur works in a nursery. Harbour takes care of the shop and meets Alice, a mother who sells him the books she finds when working as a cleaner at the hospital. When she is sacked for always being late at work, she goes to see Harbour to explain why she won't be coming to the bookshop again as she has no books to sell. Following his brother's advice on "grabbing" women, Harbour asks Alice to marry him. The