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.
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