Patrick Rosenkranz, author of a great history of underground comics called Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, says: “Just posted a feature on Beat poet and painter Barbitol Bob Branaman on Youtube. Let’s see how long it stays on before they censor it.”
Beat Generation poet, painter, and film producer Bob Branaman continues to make avant garde art today. Branaman joined the Beatniks in San Francisco in the 1950s, part of the Kansas Vortex, which included Charles Plymell and Michael McClure, and soon made his name as a hep cat. He outlived many of his bohemian contemporaries, despite his bad habits. In Spring 2010 he had a show of his paintings at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles.