Showing posts with label Mark Campos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Campos. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

City Limits Gazette # Brass angel at high tide (Nov. 1992)













Logo by Michael Stengl, giant cartoon heads in deadly combat, quotes out of context, my typewriter breaks, Joe Sumrall's murder is still unsolved, Bil Keane Watch by Mark Campos, another Bil Keane Watch by Steve Lafler, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, bad cover versions of Yesterday, Bil Keane Watch, Comics Journal appendix references to the small press by Gary Usher.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

City Limits Gazette # I can't get the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song out of my mind (Oct. 1992)













Weird Al, who I admire tremendously, covered the issue number here better than anyone, Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, Jane Oliver dies and reading this almost two decades later still makes me angry and depressed and my eyes well up, Gary Usher donates rare comix to WSU, I endorse Bill Clinton in 1992, sick McCleary jokes, Bil Keane Watch with Mike Lee and Mark Campos, A Fragment of a Forthcoming Biography of Clay Geerdes (I wish Clay was still with us. I'd love to hear his opinions on the current trends. He'd be in his 70s and probably sitting at the head of the table, where he earned his place, pontificating. I miss him), Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, another Bil Keane Watch by M. Stengl, readers give me grief over my belief that free will is a myth and print is dead-- two truisms I hold to this day.

City Limits Gazette # Overwhelming sadness of the monkey trapped in the garage (Sept. 1992)









Logo by Mark Campos, Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, San Diego Con report by Ryan Eifert, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger, Comics and Wrestling by Jerry Riddle, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Yet another Bil Keane Watch by Ben Adams (of Minneapolis), Bob Richart likes Wow Cool and the work of Sam Henderson.

This issue included: State of beings # 13. Idaho.

City Limits Gazette # It's no fun being in a tiger suit alone, or an elephant suit either (Sept. 1992)











Logo by Frank Gilbert Lloyd Jr., Robert Lewis (of Michigan) asks what happened to Factsheet Five?, Toivo Rovainen on the last days of Comics F/X, Cartooning at the O.K. Hotel by Bruce Chrislip, Bil Keane Watch by Mark Campos, Gary Usher and indexing The Comics Journal, another Bil Keane Watch by Clark Dissmeyer.

Included as a bonus in this issue: State of beings # 12. Hawaii.

City Limits Gazette # Je me souviens (Aug. 1992)













Logo by Maximum Traffic, Ed Martin joins Dark Horse, Bil Keane Watch, Civic Karma in McCleary, CLG reader profile of Mark Campos, Michael Dowers returns to Seattle, John E. becomes a father, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, The Fallacy of California Redemption Value by Lynn Hansen.