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John Holmstrom

John Holmstrom (born 1954) is an American underground cartoonist and writer. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the Ramones albums ''Rocket to Russia'' and ''Road to Ruin'', as well as his characters Bosko and Joe (published in Scholastic's ''Bananas'' magazine from 1975 to 1984).

At age 21, Holstrom was the founding editor of ''Punk Magazine''. After ''Punk'' ceased publication in 1979, he worked for several publications, including ''The Village Voice'', ''Video Games'' magazine, ''K-Power'', and ''Heavy Metal''.

In 1986, Holmstrom contributed a comic-based chronology of punk rock for ''Spin'' magazine's special punk issue. In 1987, Holmstrom began to work for ''High Times'' magazine as Managing Editor, was soon promoted to Executive Editor, and in 1991 was promoted to Publisher and President. In 1996 he stepped aside to launch the ''High Times'' website.

He left ''High Times'' in 2000, and went on to work on other projects. He relaunched ''Punk'' for a few issues (before the events of 9/11 ended it), published a Bosko comic book, and got involved in several Japanese clothing deals. He was quoted in a September 2007 ''New York Times'' article about the CBGB. Provided by Wikipedia