Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

 

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

Phone photo 1621

I saw this dumped on the side on a logging road (where it appears to have been used for target practice) and the first thing that popped in my head was our late comrade Jamie Alder and his series, Tales Too Tough For TV.

Mason County, Washington

Newave! Promo Mini Comic

Here's the page I contributed to the 8 page minicomic Michael Dowers printed up to promote his Newave book. Other artists included, XNO, Wayne Gibson, Wayno, J.R. Williams, David Lasky and Jamie Alder in what was probably one of his last published drawings.

City Limits Gazette # ... (Jan. 1993)

Smurf creator Pierre Culliford dies at age 64, a question from Kel Crum, Mark Campos writes a Bil Keane Watch defending The Master against Working Mother magazine, Maximum Traffic responds to Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, William Dockery tackles the Fred question, Matt Loves hops on the bus, Matt Groening recalls his Evergroove days in Spin (excerpt included here), Wayno anticipates the indeed later published Collected Bil Keane Watch, CLG reader profile of Jamie Alder, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen.

City Limits Gazette # ... (June 1992)

Logo by Maximum Traffic, Jamie Alder-Hank Arakelian-Jim Ryan World War, Randy Reynaldo news, Michael Stengl signs up, Bob Richart gives a long answer to the Fred Flintstone question while Jane Oliver gives a brief one, The Pizz on TV, State of beings # 11. Georgia written by my nephew Tristan Sill, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Brad Foster on selling out, The Bil Keane Watch by Bruce Chrislip, Mary Longo joins CLG.

Outside In # 11

1st edition, 1984, 150 copies on white cardstock.

2nd edition, March 1984, 20 copies on white cardstock.

3rd edition, 1984. Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, regular stock white paper.

T.S. Child, Tracy Thore, Jamie Alder, John E., Donald V. Cook, Gary W. Cooper, Bob Lewis.

Jamie died last year in March.

Gary Cooper, the university faculty mostly known as a collector, once paid a delightful visit here to Casa Esteban in McCleary.

SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 2

One of the big factors in my decision to accept the invitation to attend SPACE 2011 was the opportunity to finally meet so many people who had I known for 1, 2, even 3 decades only through correspondence. The recent passing of several of our comix comrades like Jamie Alder, Mike Roden, Steve Fiorilla, Jay Kennedy hit me hard. These were people I was hoping to meet in person some day, and I figured eventually our paths would cross. I waited too long for "eventually" to happen.

But we are not getting any younger. To put it diplomatically, I knew I needed to do this while so many of us are still above ground. And what better place to see so many comix people from our old Newave/Obscuro network at one time than SPACE?

Bruce Chrislip and I loaded up his car and headed north to Columbus on Saturday morning.

Above: on the trip to Columbus.

Upon arrival we were issued and assigned a table which we shared with Mike Hill and Maximum Traffic/Buzz B./Borpo Deets.

One of our neighbors, I'm happy to say, was Colin Upton, who came all the way from Vancouver, B.C.. Together we constituted the only Pacific Northwest presence at the expo. He is a good conversationalist with an understated, wry way of observing life's foibles.

Another person I got to meet right off the bat was Morty the Dog regular reader D. Blake Werts, who helped me make an emergency run to the closest available computer so I could print out a script for the next day's reading. I really appreciated his company and it gave us a chance to visit a little.

If there is any down side to events like this, it is that I don't get to really spend a lot of time with any one person. But names do get associated with a face, a voice, a personality in person. A human connection is made. And that's worth a lot.

Above: Bruce, Colin, Blake.

Colin's new book, The Collected Diabetes Funnies, is a good example of how technology has made it possible for us photocopy comix artists to graduate to a more sophisticated format. I was astounded over and over at what high production values I was seeing in the physical publications. As you can see, Colin has not fallen into the lure of life beyond black and white. "Color," he told me, "Is for the weak"-- a quote I enjoyed so much I asked him to repeat it a couple times.

Jamie Alder Scrapbook