City Limits Gazette # Look Ma, no brain! (Feb. 1992)

Stan Yates of Iowa State University retires, news from Wayno, Hal Hargit leaves Seattle and comix, Clark Dissmeyer on Kevin Eastman, underground chain letter, Hector chain cartoon, news from Bruce Chrislip, review by Lynn Hansen, Bil Keane Watch.

CLG bonus for this issue was State of beings # 6. Colorado.

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.

Limbolympia

1st edition, January 1983, Olympia, Washington, 50 copies, ivory cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, March 1983, Olympia, Washington, 56 copies, goldenrod cover, enlarged digest size.

Print-on-demand reprint series, 1994, McCleary, Washington, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, yellow cover, regular digest size.

So named because I was back in Oly 1982-1983 and not feeling all that great about being trapped in that city, yet again. I was holding down a temporary job in my field after having just gotten married and wanted something permanent. Hence in Limbo in Olympia.

Trivia:

I think the Darwin Corksniffer story might've been born in a writing class with instructor Peter Elbow during my senior year at The Evergreen State College 1978-1979. I revived the idea and made it into a comic.

"The 13 O'clock Movie" story has the feel of purging a bunch of stuff.

Apparently Joe Stalin knew a lot more English than he let on. I once made a constructive suggestion involving Stalin's stuffed corpse to the Russians via my comic The Tall Elf.

The D.B. Cooper story is true. The case remains unsolved although several strong candidates (all of them now dead) have emerged in the last decade.

There have been a lot of reprints over the years of some parts of this book, but Found Loose in the Mail was made into a minicomic of it's own by Hal Hargit in 1987.

Found Loose in the Mail

Wash up! We're gonna worship the warship!

There's sort of a sub-genre of minicomix: Artwork previously published in other works and then reassembled and reprinted in the mini format.

Found Loose in the Mail was originally presented as a story in the digest-sized Limbolympia in 1983. The last four pages, Morty Comix #1629, had never seen print before, as with most of the Morty Comix series.

Hal Hargit (Dallas, Texas : Ozone Press) printed 100 of these things Jan. 3, 1987 under the series "Ozone Classic Reprint Series ; No. 1" and a second series "OZP ; no. 13."

An odd size, this comic is only 11 cm. at the spine.

I had the pleasure of meeting Hal around the same year as this comic was released, during a MU Press party in Seattle. Back in those days when we Newavers chiefly communicated through the US Postal Service, it was always great to have an opportunity to connect a real person with the pritned name.