Buttons - Comic Art - 1988

1988 Morty Awards

Steve Willis

Arnie's Hall of Fame

The button is browning up a bit. This was from the Comics F/X Morty Awards.

City Limits Gazette # ZZZZZZZerk-gigga-gigga-BOINK! (Dec. 1992)

Logo by Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Edd Vick sends us Comics F/X leftovers, Lynn Hansen remembers Jane Oliver, Maximum Traffic responds to McJacksonstein, Bil Keane Watch by Randy H. Crawford, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher, how many people are in this thing anyway?, bad cover versions of You Can't Do That, You Like Me Too Much, You Never Give Me Your Money, You Won't See Me, Your Mother Should Know, You're Going to Lose That Girl, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, another Bil Keane Watch.

City Limits Gazette # It's no fun being in a tiger suit alone, or an elephant suit either (Sept. 1992)

Logo by Frank Gilbert Lloyd Jr., Robert Lewis (of Michigan) asks what happened to Factsheet Five?, Toivo Rovainen on the last days of Comics F/X, Cartooning at the O.K. Hotel by Bruce Chrislip, Bil Keane Watch by Mark Campos, Gary Usher and indexing The Comics Journal, another Bil Keane Watch by Clark Dissmeyer.

Included as a bonus in this issue: State of beings # 12. Hawaii.

City Limits Gazette # Mermaid, mermaid, have you ever seen blood? (Sept. 1992)

Logo by Chad Woody, the number for this issue came from a song my innocent little daughter just made up while playing on the swingset, Bob Richart on Wayno and Wow Cool!, Gary Usher joins us, not buying Comics F/X, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Edward Martin III compares Morty and Garfield, Michael Neno on the Fred question, CLG reader profile of Lynn Hansen, Bil Keane Watch by Mike Lee, CLG reader profile of Michael Dowers.

I'm including the Morty/Garfield strips Ed is talking about. The Morty strip was drawn in 1986 for The Cooper Point Journal and reprinted in Morty Without Tears ; and, Planet of the Bobs (1989)

City Limits Gazette # Milk of Human Kindness (Apr. 1992)

Logo by Mark Campos. Mark's logo here is one of my faves. OK, I might be coming across as a heretic here, but did Brando ever make an appearance in a movie that was worth a damn after The Godfather? I mean, he was always interesting to watch no matter how bad the film, but in his whole career you can count the really good films on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to deliver a Moe Howard style poke in the eyes to a pretentious film buff who declares Brando a genius.

Mark Campos and Nils Osmar weigh in on a panel discussion at Cartoonists Northwest, Comics F/X news, cartoonist Joe Sumrall murdered in Rainier Washington and the case has not been solved to this day, Bil Keane Watch, A.P. McQuiddy comments on Lynn Hansen, naked man quacks like a duck in a bank, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, a tip of the hat to the great people at Pip (now out of business), comment by Ted Delorme, bad cover versions of She Loves You, She Said She Said, She's a Woman, She's Leaving Home, Something, Scott Johnson's resub.

City Limits Gazette # Jobbo Bonobo's Night Terror (Mar. 1992)

Comics F/X up for sale, Janus hold that door!, Jeff Nicholson's first minicomic, Lynn Hansen on Clark Dissmeyer's comments regarding Kevin Eastman, Mark Campos on selling out, profile of Mad and Alfred E. Neuman by Brian Rainville, reviews by Lynn Hansen, The Bil Keane Watch, Clark Dissmeyer's first minicomic, what would you do if you woke up in the body of Fred Flintstone?, bad cover versions of Martha My Dear, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Mean Mr. Mustard, Michelle.