John Bryan
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John Bryan (1934 - February 1, 2007) was the publisher of underground newspaper, Open City Press in San Francisco.
Starting his career in journalism, he quit mainstream publishing in 1964 and started Open City Press, San Francisco's first alternative paper. In all, Mr. Bryan put out three literary journals and four newspapers in San Francisco, was managing editor of the Los Angeles Free Press, and founded Open City, another Los Angeles weekly.
Bryan was the first person to publish the prose of Charles Bukowski. Bukowski's weekly column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man," ran for years in Open City.
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