Copy This! # 1

Copy This # 1, a new publication covering news and information regarding minicomix and their artists (mostly those descending from the community of the Newave era) is, appropriately enough, now available in print only. This issue is 40 p. and in the minicomix format (13 cm.)


This issue includes a new column, "Itchy Dreams," by yours truly; Dan W. Taylor is interviewed by Richard Krauss, "two of the nicest cats you'll ever meet"-- I know that statement is true, I've met them both; And updates on the haps with Larned Justin, Howard Cruse, Bruce Rosenberger, Richard Krauss, Bob Vojtko, Rob Kirby, Edward Bolman, that rascal Buzz Buzzizyk, Joe Wehrle Jr., Jenny Zervakis, Marc Myers, Brad Foster, Artie Romero, Mike Hill, Clark Dissmeyer, Steve Willis, John Porcellino, Andy Nukes, Rick Bradford, Deliane Derry Green, Jeff Zenick, Colin Upton ("color is for the weak"), Matt Feazell, Rob Imes, and the incomparable Bruce Chrislip (who reveals the existence of  his comix history in progress!)

No frequency is listed. You can inquire with editor/publisher D. Blake Werts at: 12339 Chesley Dr., Charlotte, NC 28277, or via email: bwerts@vnet.net

Blake says:  "News contributors receive a comp copy of the issue(s) in which their announcements appear. So, as long as you are keeping in touch, you are subscribed!  Otherwise, single copies go for $2.00 ppd, twelve-issue subscriptions just $20.00 ppd. (U.S. rates, send email for other countries.)"

A very worthy effort that deserves support! Go Blake!

Help Build a New Comix Zine!

Bruce Chrislip, Colin Upton, Blake Werts

SPACE 2011, Columbus, Ohio

Our friend Blake Werts has either lost his mind or is a visionary (I'm going with the latter, but he might wind up in the former after a year or two of this project!). 

Please take a look at this news release and give Blake some feedback. I have already contributed an essay for the first issue:

 January 18, 2014

Charlotte, NC


Greetings mini comix fan,

It all started when I made a half-joking proclamation to Dan W. Taylor, "We
should start a mini comix news zine!" Dan wasted no time responding, more or
less, with "Blake, that sounds like a great thing for YOU to do.." Fast
forward a few years and I still have the itch. This idea was mentioned in an
email exchange with Richard Krauss, and next thing I know I was getting both
words of encouragement and lots of great suggestions on how we could make it
happen. Would it be possible to recapture some of the "paperNet" of years
past? I won't be so bold as to say we'll rebuild the sizable networks that
congregated around Clay Geerdes' "Comix World/Comix Wave" or Bruce Chrislip
and Steve Willis' "City Limits Gazette," but I'm excited to give it a try.
All I need is a little help from you..

Below you'll find a few questions to gather current information. It will be
compiled and published in our first few issues. Then, as you create new
material, or have updates that you'd like to share with the community, just
let us know and we'll help spread the word. Also planned are interviews,
biographies, histories, artwork, and maybe a few surprises from Steve
Willis!

Please help us get this started by answering the enclosed questionnaire and
returning it to me as soon as you get a chance. Of course, you can email
your responses to me at bwerts@vnet.net if you'd rather.

Much appreciated!





D. Blake Werts
12339 Chesley Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277



Please answer and mail/respond to:

        D. Blake Werts

        12339 Chesley Drive

        Charlotte, NC 28277

        bwerts@vnet.net



1. What's happening? Are you currently active in cartooning or any other
creative endeavors?


2. Do you have any new comix or zines available? If so, what are the details
(size, page count, cost)?


3. Do you have any older comix or zines available? If so, what are the
details (size, page count, cost)?


4. Will you consider trades?


5. Best way to contact you? Postal mailing address? Email address?


6. Besides this newsletter, how can readers keep up with your work? Are you
are active online?


7. What would you like to see in a newsletter / zine about mini comix?


8. Any announcements you'd like to make?


9. Would you be willing to contribute a spot cartoon or cover artwork for an
issue?


10. Any other mini comikers we should contact?


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The Dust Settles

This blog is now a year old, and it seems a fitting time to change gears. The frenetic pace at which I have been scanning and posting primary documents of the Newave Comix era as well as my own work will be slowing down.

I want to start getting back in the comix creation game. Thanks to this blog the bulk of my old printed work has been caught up to this online technology, so now I feel reset with this modern a-gogo world and ready to make comix again.

Besides, I still owe art to Maximum Traffic and Dan W. Taylor, and getting the next Morty the Blog jam together.

It has been a singular experience reacquainting myself with all the works that have been posted here in the last year. This blog is only possible because of the efforts of the Fabulous Sarah, who set it up and made it run. Thank you Sarah!

I'll still try to post at least a photo every day, and continue to scan and share odd drawings, articles, etc. as I find them. I'm not stopping, I'm just going to walk instead of run.

City Limits Gazette # H1/4 (Dec. 1991)

Logo by Dan W. Taylor, CLG index for 1991, Hubie review by Mark Campos, Lynn Hansen comix reviews.
State of beings # 4. Arkansas distributed with this issue.

City Limits Gazette # Terra Waldo (Sept. 1991)

Logo by Dan W. Taylor, who also donated a nice heap of publications to the Washington State University Library comix collection, Ben Adams (the Minnesota Ben as opposed to the California Ben) joins up, profile and bibliography of Kevin Collier, we all wonder who was walking around in the giant Richie Rich head and realize Bruce Chrislip has some explaining to do, bad cover versions of Here There and Everywhere, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude.

City Limits Gazette # pongo (Aug. 1991)

Book thief Stephen Blumberg passes over WSU Library's comix collection, logo by S. Minstrel, another logo by Dan W. Taylor, Mike Culpepper on Kennedy's Guide, the Bil Keane Watch read out loud by Bruce Chrislip at SPACE 2011 with such great emotion I was reduced to tears-- of laughter, Return to Normalcy (Mad Hatter's Tea Party International), reviews by Lynn Hansen, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger.

Terminal

Terminal. June 2, 2011. 100 copies, ivory paper, regular digest size.

Cover: Steven Stwalley
p. 2: Steve Willis
p. 3: Harry Bell
p. 4: Bob Vojtko
p. 5: Dan W. Taylor and Chad Woody
p. 6: Steven Stwalley
p. 7: Ed DeVore
p. 8: Roldo
p. 9: Marc Myers
p. 10: Bob Vojtko and Anvil
p. 11: Bruce Chrislip
p. 12: Bruce Chrislip
p. 13: Brad W. Foster
p. 14: Bob Vojtko
back cover: Chad Woody

I'll be sending out contrib copies to the artists and to our fab Morty the Blog patrons who have dropped some of the coin of the realm in the donate box.

I've already got a few drawings for yet another jam. Please feel free to send me a random image and I'll see how I can make it part of story!

And Dan W. Taylor, I have not forgotten I still owe you a drawing.

Terminal

New Jam Comic Still Alive, Honest

As some of you might recall, last February I compiled and published a Morty the Dog blog jam called We Rode With the Clowns. Shortly after that I sounded a call for contributions for a second book.

Yes, that book is still alive. The script is now finished and I'm hoping to get it into print in the next month or so. The contributors are: Anvil (she created the above image), Harry Bell, Bob Vojtko, Dan W. Taylor, Steve Stwalley, Ed DeVore, Roldo, Marc Myers, Bruce Chrislip, Chad Woody and Brad Foster. Is that a great lineup or what? Hopefully my script will do these wonderful artists justice. I still have to create my linking illustration and captions.

In the meantime, any graphics that arrive from this point on will find their way into a third jam book. Basically, just send me an image, any drawing that I can present before a mixed audience, and than I'll link the randomness together into a story like the Clowns book. This next one has a tighter story than the first. So stay tuned.

SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 7

Dan W. Taylor was another person from the Newave days I was hoping to meet. As it turns out, Dan and his wife Carrie are cranking out little minicomix at such a prolific rate that Dan can be called a minicomic king at this point. Seeing a guy with his long history in self-publishing still being this active really puts me to shame.

Dan is also nudging several old Newavers to return to the drawing board. He seems to have become a professional instigator.

For any student of the Newave, his Time Warp Comix is a must read. Dan gave me some art for my next collage piece, and I promised him some work for his fun series. See how he does this? The guy is insidious. Like I said, a professional instigator.

The Taylors also donated a pile of minis for me to send to the Washington State University Library comix collection.

Above: Colin Upton, Mike Hill, Dan W. Taylor