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.

Outside In-Formation # 1

Mostly by Hal Hargit with some touches by Edd Vick, published by Miscellanea Unlimited, December 1988.

This is a history of the Outside In series midway through the run. Hargit and Vick stopped at issue # 30 and the title was handed to Bruce Chrislip, who was living in Seattle but had moved to Cincinnati by the time he decided to end the series with issue # 50 in June 2003. During Outside In's 20 year, 50-issue run, over 400 artists had contributed their self-portraits.

Move Over Superman, Make Way for Morty / by Johnny Dodd

A profile piece on Edd Vick and Miscellanea Unlimited Press from the University Herald (Seattle, Washington), February 7, 1990.

The "comics aren't just for kids anymore" was an expression journalists liked to use a lot when describing our kind of comix. I first started reading that phrase in the mid-1970s. Today, I think it is pretty much taken for granted there is a huge bloc of Boomers who never let go of the medium and comic art has grown up right alongside us as we spin through the mortal coil.

Johnny Dodd, the author of this article, apparently went on to write for People.

Norwescon 20

I have not been much of a con attendee, but I did go to this one in 1997, held at SeaTac, Washington, for the the express purpose of meeting special guest Brad Foster. I think this was the one where I also met Steve Gallacci. Also in attendance were the usual gang of familiar local troublemakers: Mark Campos, Bruce Chrislip, Roberta Gregory, Donna Barr, Edd Vick, etc.

If my memory is correct, I think Edd roped me into a panel discussion about comic art and publishers, and I championed the Newave philosophy of do-it-yourself. At the time I felt pretty lonely up there.

Steve Willis Archives v. 4

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

This final volume of the set is an enlarged version of Stevetreads # 4.

Now, which one of us is going to badger Jeff Nicholson enough to convince him it is time for his return to the comix medium?

Stevetreads # 4

1st edition, 1988. Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. White cover, regular digest size.

Jeff's final issue of this series. But, as we shall see soon, Stevetreads was sort of a draft for a bigger project he published a little later.

The jam with Seattle author Edd Vick, I think, is the only artwork here that has not previously been posted on this blog. We drew it during one of his visits to McCleary and he later published it in his Fantoons. Edd is a thoughtful and gentle person, and a wonderful conversationalist as both guest and host.