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.

Alas! Comics

McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1994. Reprint of Alas 1-3. Print-on-demand

In the mid-1990s I tried my hand at being an obscuro publisher and distributor (handling unsold inventory for Clay Geerdes and Dale Luciano) as well as reprinting my old stuff on a print-on-demand basis.

But I also brought several works by others into print. I'll be scanning and posting the books where my role was strictly that of an editor and publisher and including them in this blog for the next while.

One artist I was eager to publish and introduce to a wider audience was Sasa Rakezic (a.k.a. Aleksandar Zograf), the Serbian cartoonist who produced a series of chilling and dream-like minicomix fed by his personal experiences from the turmoil in the Yugoslavia. At the time this comic was published, Sasa was still a relatively unknown artist in the United States outside of the obscuro network.

A great example of creation under fire and some of the most interesting comix I've ever read.

Alas Comics

Steve Willis Archives v. 3

1st edition, March 1991. Chico, California : Onward Comics. 50 copies. Blue cover, regular digest size.

This contains the same material as Stevetreads # 3 (1987) but has a been a bit rearranged.

Stevetreads # 3

1st edition, 1987. Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. White cover, regular digest size.

The number of copies for the 3rd and 4th issues of this series isn't recorded in my list, but I would assume the count is low since the first two issues had a grand total of 3 copies per issue.

The name Stevetreads was a play on my Retreads title, a series devoted to reprinting items printed hither and yon into one collection (I smile as I recall Ted Bolman wanted to start yet another play on this called ReTeds, which I hope he did). Several of the pieces Jeff reprinted were actually reprints of reprints. But in this issue there was something different. Half the book was filled with new work.

Jeff had acquired several pages of unpublished jam comix between Dale Luciano and myself. This was the in-print debut for the cover art and all work from the "Memories" page to the end. These were later reprinted in 1994 in Dada Gumbo Morty.