Deep Thinks Animation

A bite-sized animation by John Eades. This one is an adaptation of a one-pager I drew in the mid-1980s. If I'm not mistaken I think this first appeared in a comic published by Steve Lafler, and has been reprinted a few times in different places. Jay Kennedy even made a little sculpture of Morty based on this drawing.

Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: Alabama-California (Orinda)

Shortly after Jay Kennedy released The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide (1982) I went through it and re-sorted the geographic information by hand. Remember, this was long before Internet. I was interested in the demographics and regional distribution of this thing of ours. Plus, I am a librarian. This is what we do.

This was all hammered out on a manual typewriter, probably in 1982. I'll be posting this in parts. It has never been distributed in any form.

Jay's list, of course, was not complete, but he made a very good effort. If you hit the tag for the Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide you'll see some folks had issues with the publication. Jay is gone, and so is his biggest critic, Lynn Hansen. I liked them both very much and still miss these two guys.

In 1982 I didn't expect to outlive these two good men, but here I am, still around even though I am among the most sedentary of humans. The guy I list as my family doctor died several years ago. I smoke cigars and don't exercise. Fate has given me the task of being a relic and bloviating about the past of an obscure art movement, passing the torch to the students of the esoteric. So here I am blogging for you.

And, as Vonnegut said, so it goes.

This will be a long list, so you comix historians keep checking in. 

City Limits Gazette # Bonanzaland grab grab grab (Sept. 1993)

Logo by David Lasky, the number for this issue was my nod to Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan, Robert Boyd donates to the WSU comix collection, Robert Dupree signs up (more on him later), a note from Clay Geerdes, more comix bibliomania by Jay Kennedy, Bil Keane Watch by Greg Stomberg - Mark Campos, a Maximum Traffic poem by Ted Bolman, Dissmeyer and Datmyers in drag, Suspended Animation by Michael Vance and R.A. Jones, San Diego report by Steve Lafler, Joe Singer 1950-1993, Trial of Mike Diana, CLG/Comicist survey form.

City Limits Gazette # ** (Mar. 1993)

Logo by Gary Usher, news on the Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide by Jay Kennedy, Clay Geerdes' Comix World/Comix Wave at the 20 year mark, Bruce and Joan Chrislip visit McCleary, Bizarro bibliography by Bob Moulton, CLG reader profile of Dennis Pimple, Bil Keane Watch by Wayno - Maximum Traffic - "Harvey" - Jeffrey Kipper, On selling out by Lynn Hansen, Harvey Kurtzman 1924-1993, a word from Denis Kitchen.

The bibliography on the Superman Bizarros by Bob Moulton and the subsequent discovery of the Nixon connection remains one of the eeeeeeeriest "coincidences" I've ever encountered. That whole scenario so impressed me I worked into one of my Twisted Conundrums.

City Limits Gazette # The world is so big and we are so small, yet we're turning it to shit in no time at all (Dec. 1992)

Logo by Maximum Traffic, Evergreen Mafia, CLG 1992 index, Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein responds to Max, Bil Keane Watch by Jeff Snee, CLG reader profile of Brad Foster, yet another Bil Keane Watch by Russell Rose, ye gods another Bil Keane Watch by Bryan Willis, (sigh) another Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, Ahab the cat 1982-1992, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

The "Evergreen Mafia" article cited above is included here. I'm guessing David George was the editor who reprinted this profile. David no doubt supplied the names of us lesser knowns, padding the list a bit within those square brackets since we were not listed in the original piece. The term "Evergreen Mafia" was first coined by Jay Kennedy ca. 1982.