WSU Comix Collection Finding Aid

This must be something posted just within the the last year. I stumbled across a list of comix I gathered, 1966-1997, for the Washington State University Comix Collection! Looks like you can see the bibliographic entry on their online catalog by clicking the highlighted LC classification call number.

In the past they have provided a list for the Lynn Hansen Comix Collection and the Paul Brians Comix Collection.

WSU also mentions: "Unprocessed collections (please contact us for access information): Further Steve Willis collections (MS 2009-15); Clark Dissmeyer collection (MS 2009-18); Joseph Shea collection (MS 2009-19, MS 2010-01); Jeff Zenich collection (MS 2009-20)."

Traveling Companion / by Clark Allen Dissmeyer

A 1992 story by Clark Dissmeyer I published during my print-on-demand era, 1994-1996.

Clark Dissmeyer Bibliography 1980-1993 / compiled by Gary Usher and Marc Myers

This was originally published in early 1994 by Gary Usher in Glenwood, Iowa on letter-size sheets. I reprinted it later in the year as one of the print-on-demand titles available in my catalog.

Publishing this was a triple pleasure for me. I got to promote the efforts of a great comix scholar, highlight the work of one of the funniest cartoonists out of the Newave, and actually get Marc Myers in print (which is sort of like getting a good photo of Sasquatch).

Now there's a project where only the bravest bibliographer dare tread-- building an accurate and complete bibliography of the work of Marc Myers. In many ways Marc's work is the very essence of Obscuro and I greatly admire that. And Marc was really the only cartoonist who could've helped Gary build such a complete bibliography of Clark's art.

City Limits Gazette # Ch-ch-ch-changes (Sept. 29, 1993)

Cover by Gary Usher, logos by Brad Foster - Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein - Andrew Ford - Jason Salisbury - Robert Lewis - Maximum Traffic - Gary Usher - Jenny Zervakis, CLG reader profiles of Randy Paske - Ben Adams - Randy Scott - Michael Neno - Troy Hickman - Clark Dissmeyer, Jay Kennedy makes a request, UG/Newave artists in unusual settings by Rick Bradford (a link to the future networking main man!), Robert DuPree makes a pitch, Bil Keane Watch by Ken Clinger, Matt Love responds to deep-sixing the NEA, Jeff Snee on comic art and racism, I endorse Goodman (David John Pack) for Olympia City Council, Heath Row subscribes, Maximum Traffic bids farewell to CLG but gives a hint of the coming White Buffalo Gazette, Comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Goodbye CLG, back cover by Maximum Traffic.

I did indeed move after wrapping up this issue, in 1994 to where I presently live. And I returned to producing comix, bought a photocopier, and spent a couple years with a large list of print-on-demand titles. Robert Dupree became somewhat infamous within a couple years, was chased out of the publishing world by the publication of KOOL Man, and apparently died in 2006 at the age of 57 in Massachusetts. Goodman was not, unfortunately, elected to the Olympia City Council. Lynn Hansen died in April 1995.

Michael Neno, who I finally had a chance to meet this year at SPACE, has in this issue one of my favorite quotes ever to come out of CLG: "... if you now have the freedom to do whatever you want, why in the world would you choose to do the same old formulaic stuff?"

City Limits Gazette was one wild ride.

City Limits Gazette # Harry & Lena ride the Jell-o jitney (Sept. 1993)

Logo by Sasa Rakezic, we reach 90 subscribers, a nice note from Andrew Ford, San Diego report by Wayno, Sean Wilson and Steve Lafler on the drug thing, Letter from Yugoslavia by Sasa Rakezic, Cincinnati philanthropist David Chrislip drops big bucks on CLG, Clay Geerdes with Clark Dissmeyer and Marc Myers, CLG reader profile of Randy Reynaldo, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Spain Rodriguez, Jeff Snee describes the pain of kidney stones (I defy you to find another comix zine that carried a news item like this!), CLG reader profile of Steve Lafler (turns out that's J.R. Williams pictured with him), Obscuro Press 1972 by Gary Usher, CLG reader profile of Jonathan Tegnell, Tim Erenata responds to deep-sixing the NEA, Bil Keane Watch by Bruce Sweeney - Maximum Traffic, CLG reader profile of Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, I announce the next issue of CLG will be my last.