City Limits Gazette # Frisky and Little Mary, the doomed children of the "Grabby Elf" (Nov. 1992)

Logo by Clay Geerdes, Randy Reynaldo on the Fred question, Bil Keane Watch by Wayno, What's in and what's out for 1993 by Jeff Snee, Teenage Turtle filming in Astoria Oregon, CLG reader profile of Mike Culpepper, Tuck Petertil in the Oly art scene, Bil Keane Watch by Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Bil Keane Watch by Jeff Zenick, William Dockery signs up, return of Factsheet Five?, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger, CLG reader profile of Bruce Sweeney with illustration by Gary Whitney, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

City Limits Gazette # ... (Mar. 1992)

Logo by Jerry Riddle, Maximum Traffic on his first minicomic, The Bil Keane Watch, reviews by Lynn Hansen, Jeff Zenick on selling out, Clark Dissmeyer on the capitalistic system and American consumerism, Steve Lafler still on fire, another Bil Keane Watch by Clark Dissmeyer, Jay Kennedy's Willis want list plus some comments, I respond to the first minicomic question, the wonderful Jim Ryan being the wonderful Jim Ryan, Bob Vojtko on selling out and offering part of his lawn as a trade, bad cover versions of Michelle, Misery, Mother Nature's Son, Night Before, No Reply, Norwegian Wood, Not a Second Time, Nowhere Man.

State of beings # 8. Delaware was issued with this one.

City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 3-4

John Porcellino completes his history of City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette with two more parts.

Part 3 includes interviews with Edward Bolman, Cat Noel, Jeff Zenick, Larned Justin, Buzz Buzzyzik/Maximum Traffic/Borpo Deets.

Part 4 is a look at the amazing Millennium issue of White Buffalo Gazette.

Nice work, John! I salute you. This is a slice of first-person comix history that might otherwise have been lost without your efforts.

City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 1

John Porcellino began his three part history of the City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette continuum today.

Part 1 covers the founding of CLG by Bruce Chrislip and the subsequent revival by yours truly.

It is on his blog, Maybe Blogging Will Help.

According to John: "Part Two will be a long interview with Max/Buzz and Part Three will cover post-Max editors etc. They will go up soon, I'm still waiting to hear from Zenick."

A nice job of putting together a piece of obscuro comix history. I'm eager to read the Maximum Traffic interview in the next round.

Modernman # 3 ; Maximum Traffic # 210

If you agree with the popular notion the 20th century ended on Dec. 31, 1999 rather than Dec. 31, 2000 (and I'm with the pops) then Modernman # 3 ; Maximum Traffic # 210 was my last published work of the 20th century.

To call this a real jam might be wrong since there was some planning and coordination behind it by that crazy man named Tom in Butler, Pennsylvania who used to call himself Maximum Traffic but has since been known by a few other monikers (my favorite being "Borpo Deets"). He was this project's originator, editor, publisher, and all-around ringmaster.

Nothing was drawn before we had script cranked out by Max, myself, and the great Mike (Worker Poet/Modernman) Hill. Mike, also a Pennsylvanian, once paid me a visit here in McCleary, when he dropped in one day when Lynn Hansen happened to be here. I used to have a photo of that event, and it is possible it is still around in this house.

Anyway, Max wanted me to do all the lettering to give the comic a more consistent look. Contributions were also made by the always amazing Hilary Barta, and a few other artists got their 2 cents in one way or another: Ted Bolman, Mark Campos, Jeff Zenick, and Sean Bieri.

The comic was published in December 1999 and the spine measures 28 cm. I'm also including a scan of the Draft edition, from October 1999, of which only 4 copies exist and is regular digest size.

The Jasper the Pleasant Ghost toy story is actually based on a toy my brother once had and is essentially true. Well, partly true. OK, a little bit true. I've retold this tale in different forms in 3 or 4 comix. It's called recycling. One of the benefits of posting all this old stuff is that I am starting to see where I repeat myself a lot like some old coot blathering away in the corner of the bus station. Hopefully when I put together my next work I'll do something different.

Curve-Vision Man came from a conversation with one of my cousins in the early 1970s. We were talking about useless superpowers, and he mentioned this particular talent, which has stuck in my head ever since.