About John Holmstrom
Born 1954. John Holmstrom is an American writer, cartoonist and comics artist.
John Holmstrom (born 1954) is an American underground cartoonist and writer. He is best known for illustrating the cover of the Ramones album Road to Ruin, and the innersleeve of the album Rocket to Russia, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe (published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine from 1975 to 1984).
At age 21, Holmstrom 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.
Acting Holmstrom has appeared in the films School for Vandals, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, and Loren Cass.
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John Holmstrom was born in 1954.
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