City Limits Gazette # Bonanzaland grab grab grab (Sept. 1993)

Logo by David Lasky, the number for this issue was my nod to Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan, Robert Boyd donates to the WSU comix collection, Robert Dupree signs up (more on him later), a note from Clay Geerdes, more comix bibliomania by Jay Kennedy, Bil Keane Watch by Greg Stomberg - Mark Campos, a Maximum Traffic poem by Ted Bolman, Dissmeyer and Datmyers in drag, Suspended Animation by Michael Vance and R.A. Jones, San Diego report by Steve Lafler, Joe Singer 1950-1993, Trial of Mike Diana, CLG/Comicist survey form.

City Limits Gazette # ** (Mar. 1993)

Logo by Gary Usher, news on the Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide by Jay Kennedy, Clay Geerdes' Comix World/Comix Wave at the 20 year mark, Bruce and Joan Chrislip visit McCleary, Bizarro bibliography by Bob Moulton, CLG reader profile of Dennis Pimple, Bil Keane Watch by Wayno - Maximum Traffic - "Harvey" - Jeffrey Kipper, On selling out by Lynn Hansen, Harvey Kurtzman 1924-1993, a word from Denis Kitchen.

The bibliography on the Superman Bizarros by Bob Moulton and the subsequent discovery of the Nixon connection remains one of the eeeeeeeriest "coincidences" I've ever encountered. That whole scenario so impressed me I worked into one of my Twisted Conundrums.

City Limits Gazette # Frisky and Little Mary, the doomed children of the "Grabby Elf" (Nov. 1992)

Logo by Clay Geerdes, Randy Reynaldo on the Fred question, Bil Keane Watch by Wayno, What's in and what's out for 1993 by Jeff Snee, Teenage Turtle filming in Astoria Oregon, CLG reader profile of Mike Culpepper, Tuck Petertil in the Oly art scene, Bil Keane Watch by Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Bil Keane Watch by Jeff Zenick, William Dockery signs up, return of Factsheet Five?, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger, CLG reader profile of Bruce Sweeney with illustration by Gary Whitney, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

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.

City Limits Gazette # Peeling the toaster (July 1992)

Logo by S. Minstrel, Kel Crum weighs in on Fred, Xeric Foundation is created, Luciano revisited or RIP Newave 1975-1985, Bil Keane Watch with Jeffrey Kipper, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, CLG reader profile of Wayno, Maximum Traffic and Clay Geerdes on the hobby question, bad cover versions of When I'm Sixty Four, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Why Don't We Do It in the Road, Wild Honey Pie, With a Little Help From My Friends, The Word, Yellow Submarine, Yer Blues, Yesterday.

Also a much beloved coffee stained coaster by Wayno I have been using for nearly two decades on my studio desk.