Real Free Press was an alternative comics store and press in Amsterdam in the 1970s, run by former Provo-member Olaf Stoop (1945-1999). Between 1968 and 1974 the press published six issues of its Real Free Press Illustraties which contained – in Dutch translations by Martin Beumer – works by well-known American underground artists such as Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and Will Eisner and launched the Dutch…
Real Free Press was an alternative comics store and press in Amsterdam in the 1970s, run by former Provo-member Olaf Stoop (1945-1999). Between 1968 amd 1974 the press published six issues of its Real Free Press Illustraties which contained – in Dutch translations by Martin Beumer – works by well-known American underground artists such as Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and Will Eisner and launched the Dutch…
Provo was a Dutch countercultural movement that was mainly active in Amsterdam in the mid-1960s. Evolved from Robert Jasper Grootveld’s anti-smoking happenings in the Dutch capital and the anti-nuclear and anarchist movement (in the persons of Roel van Duyn and Rob Stolk), Provo was founded in 1965. Only…
Roel van Duijn, one of the spearheads of the Dutch countercultural Provo movement wrote this manifesto in 1967, six months after Provo had been carried to its grave. The contents of this handsome little book are still very much in the vein of Provo: subversive, provocative, creative, and humorous. In a playful manner and packaged as an adventure story Van Duijn (here spelled as Van…