Perhaps most notably, The Beat Generation battled Generation X! I mean literally! Burroughs is the rectangular-spectacled chap in the fourth and sixth panel. Guess his agent didn't deal with Marvel as well as Ginsberg's and Keruoac's!
![My one disappointment in this strip is that Jubilee isn't in it.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNkNOXqd4468mkQUlRZw2UxB6Yhp5kCgzWLpudLFsABODaSuwI1P_E6X9zfQR29eafEdY-kr6wx27njRrxERyRJQyfpXfwOlmjv0_K7O2HwlSxrO_7U0ObTCgEAzG6Rx-kQKQ2JPf1m5JAcEez8GBFwEH7UR3yfLow5DH7VTBCixTC8eEeOh-vg/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-generationx-underground.jpg)
from "Generation X vs. The Beat Generation" in Generation X Underground #1 one-shot (Marvel, May 1998), by Jim Mahfood
![Please ingest the hallucinogen of yiour chocie before clicking this button for more. Me, I'm takin' Peanut M&Ms.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxdgg5-fdE7bcM2AoH85MsWDI9PtvEVx5xyg-Q0LCWNXS_CemrBor26nzMFQZDZbs5vGwfcVQbSypxt2-XH0j5CNPC8SDlxyDz_inbYLjJm5L7l1P4JpQZAQxGHVPweQUQEuSEI9QowmvjSgcog9TqfR4Gx7BJNWGI2mBzMWu0fouD1EyoPOZgw/s1600/clicktoreadmorebutton.jpg)
Burroughs pops up in Alan Moore's "anybody who ever had anything to do with Cthulhu-ly literature" saga Providence:
!['Each vat of ink we're using to print it has a drop of Blue Devil's blood in it!'](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAG4Zeoieu7K18nVfCd9K0Y5THgqDn7GmeDh5ORTXvfA8Q9FRNt3k8dc8SqPWANeBMC7a6vbBnemCcMvOrHLvio15otVnqOavmSUaG87duZoFhdGBGpvBoa9HpFshilvo2tiQuWE95sdriP6A-3ik4vtUnYBuZd3CewAhy-ae2_AE9a4obYLcU0w/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-providence11.jpg)
from Providence #11 (Avatar, November 2016), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by Jacen Burrows, colors by Juan Manuel Rodriguez, letters by Kurt Hathaway
And he appears in Ales Kot and Robert Sammelin stuffed-through-the-center with a tunnel of psychomagic comic Zero:
![In the next panel he leaps from the top of the building, using his web-slinger bracelets to swing around town...](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykIuspHmAxVMMMaBtpp34cof2j94mlTMPUV14oX5MpuSYZnZ1fEZRlg81YoD7zPA0E3_lPjcKvzmm00GNlyvNoedtv09BD_4TfVJ8EQRw3zqeuHrglOwjlBaJCp3R9mCiSMt_SRLL0HY4_5wkHsWuSwlGbqtTioy1wyg3z_QeUDEqptpysEhvDA/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-zero17a.jpg)
from Zero #17 (Image, June 2015), script by Ales Kot, pencils and inks by Robert Sammelin, colors by Jordie Bellaire, letters by Clayton Cowles
He even meets Patti Smith, which, hey, is something we've all aspired to.
![Patti has clearly been a contestant on some variation of the game show 'Beat the Clock' that I'm not familiar with.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGNI9M7vHQlC42-9zvUjtR8PIewGQVs7V8MAbli1hSg0u646S_U22Byn7YfkhP0ayncTkIkWcITFbuqs0Qlsyi9e9eRUTgekT99yGINyRhJou7jfubJSrcjscyay2pokaynYY8ZMS-jYEm-fitzpohMTAUzhrtRA33k80x58RPQTHATC0IJyeDqw/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-zero17b.jpg)
In fact, the series is dedicated to William S. Burroughs.
![You can't see it, but he's wearin' a t-shirt that says 'This IS my happy face.'](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJk7vK2jgMWaqiX4j8_ap3qZcH7dveVUV5pmJ3jjUeqp-w8lEmky3Sk61Xxt4bdS0wTEm3ixPe_la3523f1yM7ZaAziRLEOefzhEV-HeGyJP7HXO6vuhL_57KR7vVJkkHP6xY93YRmFUnzUiEHfomge2t4RY6jnl1nWzXEz2tAKzkHgjiJjRmNg/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-zero18.jpg)
from Zero #18 (Image, July 2015), script by Ales Kot, pencils and inks by Robert Sammelin, colors by Jordie Bellaires
Happy birthday, WIlliam Burroughs! In the words of Sonny and Cher, the Beat goes on.
!['I'd tip my hat to you, but I haven't got a hat. Oh, wait, yes I do.'](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiCp98xtYkUCzL15wqHnHIu6CuMOsobzKL6GzfYtUC9_u3tQSYKh4GEFyn9OuYXR1BfYBqlxo3RAOMmfBIoXNOiJw77v6d3_BZZxqe3KrTtcE0K2dZMkuzkbOrm84kn8ZvDdKbsqHfNAiFCrq33o_N_IV65A_cSTkcNMURiC9L0tAxqRu6cotQQ/s1600/0205-williamsburroughs-completecrumbcomics-v16.jpg)
from The Complete Crumb Comics v.16: The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle (Fantagraphics, July 2002), by Robert Crumb
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I don’t know what your Beatles research turned up, but we definitely wouldn’t have had Steely Dan (at least by that name).
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