The Bill Clinton Song

Bill Clinton was a rogue

But we love him just the same

It's not for public policy

That we give him that name

He was really good at speeches

And survived all the impeaches

But not keeping his pants zipped

Was where he found his fame

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1992

Clinton Gore '92

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Notice the union label is part of the display.

In 1992 I saw something I have never seen in a presidential election before or since. In McCleary, a town with a healthy chunk of 1938-1940 immigrants from Arkansas (I live in a part of town known as Arkie Hill), there were home-made signs for Clinton in front yards. In fact as I recall, in our town, George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican incumbent, placed third behind Clinton and Perot in 1992.

City Limits Gazette # I can't get the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song out of my mind (Oct. 1992)

Weird Al, who I admire tremendously, covered the issue number here better than anyone, Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, Jane Oliver dies and reading this almost two decades later still makes me angry and depressed and my eyes well up, Gary Usher donates rare comix to WSU, I endorse Bill Clinton in 1992, sick McCleary jokes, Bil Keane Watch with Mike Lee and Mark Campos, A Fragment of a Forthcoming Biography of Clay Geerdes (I wish Clay was still with us. I'd love to hear his opinions on the current trends. He'd be in his 70s and probably sitting at the head of the table, where he earned his place, pontificating. I miss him), Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, another Bil Keane Watch by M. Stengl, readers give me grief over my belief that free will is a myth and print is dead-- two truisms I hold to this day.

The Tall Elf

One of my favorites. Whatever happened to Ross Perot, anyway? That little guy brought a lot of entertainment to the world. I voted for Clinton in '92 and '96, but I enjoyed the way Ross stirred things up.

And for the record, this minicomic was around a good half decade before Will Ferrell's hit movie, Elf, which basically used the same premise or so I gather since I never saw it. I'm betting they didn't use the Joe Stalin/Karen Carpenter idea in the film, though.

So far as I know, all editions of this comic have been published right here in little old McCleary, Washington.

The 1st ed. was on yellow paper, 28 copies, in 1998, probably in May.

2nd ed. on creme cardstock, 23 copies, May 1998. No edition statement.

3rd ed., grey cardstock, 10 copies, 1998 probably in August. This is the one I've scanned and posted. No edition statement.

4th ed., 17 copies (12 blue, 5 green cardstock), 1998 probably in September. No edition statement.

5th ed., 26 copies (7 red, 16 blue, 3 yellow cardstock), March 5, 2000. The cover has a hastily written "Special SPSCC Ed." This was my last comic handout at South Puget Sound Community College during a class lecture (this one for an art class taught by Jane Stone and Bill Swanson) before I voluntarily left the safe and secure world of tenure in order to get some real life experience. It was a decision that might seem crazy on the face of it, but I've never regretted it.

The 6th ed. was the 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed., June 2005, 5 copies on pink cardstock.