During his ten year stay in America, Harry Klynn collaborated with numerous newspapers and magazines. He writes mainly satiric passages which he sells piece by piece, on demand. He also writes one liners and satiric monologues for several comedians. He had a steady relationship with PLAY BOY magazine, DAILY WORKER, the VILLAGE and ON THE DOUBLE.

However, he also collaborated with quite a few underground magazines that flourished at the time in Chicago and New York. He used to sign his articles with the initials  H. K. so as this he became better known. Even today, many of those articles are reprinted and published in all different kinds of American magazines. In 1968, he was offered a permanent job as part of the satiric writers team of PLAY BOY and consequently to appear as leading comedian in the PLAY BOY clubs which were at their highest point in America’s night life. He declines the offer and continues to appear in comedy clubs, small underground theatres and Greek night clubs of the ghetto, in order to make ends meet. He staged a number of plays off main stream, which never lasted for more than a month, although critics refer to them as small masterpieces…

In 1974, when he returns to Greece his writing style does not appear to make an impression. His articles are considered to be outside Greek reality and strange to the way modern Greeks have learned to think and laugh. In 1986 however, Likourgos Kominis, the editor in chief of the prestigious daily newspaper “TA NEA” and Leon Karapanagiotis, head of the same paper, entrust Harry with the papers centerfold, so that he can comment , once a week, on Greek everyday reality.

Short, sarcastic, unbelievably funny but most of all to the point, Harry’s satiric texts created a new way of satiric writing in the field of press which was meant to form a kind of school, as it was soon adopted by almost every younger satiric commentator in newspapers and magazines. Parts from those articles were published by “KASTANIOTIS EDITIONS” in 1984  in a multi dimensional album entitled “ALALOUM KAI PASIS ELLADOS” (Chaos over Greece).

A few years later, Harry Klynn would be on of the founding members of the new left supporting newspaper “PROTI”. There he kept the first page satiric comment, and held to this collaboration until  the day that he was forced to suspend its publication due to internal political controversy. His articles, however, in “NEA” and “PROTI” blew a fresh breath over the  modern Greek satiric  feature.

Harry Klynn’s last collaboration with the press was with “MAKEDONIA” daily newspaper, where he kept a column for two years (2000 - 2002) continuing the work he had started at “NEA” and “PROTI”.

* Harry’s columns in “MAKEDONIA”  will be published in a book, that will be released in fall 2005 and will be entitled “Harry Klynn: the columns in Makedonia”