The Bugle or Bugle-American (the latter was the original name) was an underground newspaper

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 based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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 and distributed throughout Wisconsin from September 1970 to 1978, publishing mostly weekly for a total of 316 issues in all. While by no means conservative, the Bugle was less radical than the city's other underground newspaper, Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope (newspaper)

Kaleidoscope was an underground newspaper, founded by John Kois, radio disk jockey Bob Reitman, and John Sahli , which was published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Oct. 6, 1967 to Nov. 11, 1971, printing 105 biweekly issues in all...

 (making it an early example of the alternative newsweekly genre); but it was not viewed that way by the local establishment media such as the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. It was founded by Denis Kitchen

Denis Kitchen

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, Dave Schreiner, Mike Hughes, Mike Jacobi and Judy Jacobi,
some of them (like Kitchen) former journalism

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 students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The tongue-in-cheek name was inspired by that of the Daily Bugle

Daily Bugle

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, the fictional newspaper published by Spider-Man

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-hater J. Jonah Jameson

J. Jonah Jameson

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. Due to Kitchen's interest in underground comics, the Bugle featured a comics page with the works not only of local artists like Kitchen, Jim Mitchell

Jim Mitchell (cartoonist)

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, Don Glassford, Bruce Walthers

Bruce Walthers

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, and Wendel Pugh, but work by nationally-known artists like Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

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 as well. For a time Kitchen syndicated these strips to about 50 college and alternative papers around the country. On February 22, 1975, the Bugle's office on Bremen Street on the East Side

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 was firebombed. The newspaper's next issue was delayed only a week, aided by financial support from such fans as George Reedy

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, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

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 and Bryan Ferry

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. Like the bombing at about the same time of Kaleidoscope's editor John Kois' car, this bombing was never solved; many suspected involvement by the Milwaukee Police Department

Milwaukee Police Department

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's Red Squad

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.

Veterans of the Bugle (in addition to Kitchen) include Tony Capaccio (later editor of Jane's Defence Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly

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), Greg Kot

Greg Kot

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 (the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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s pop music critic since 1990), Rob Fixmer (later technology news editor of the New York Times), and Peter James Spielmann

Peter James Spielmann

Peter James Spielmann is a veteran reporter in the foreign service of the Associated Press, and is currently an editor and supervisor on AP's North America desk...

 of the Associated Press

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.