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.

City Limits Gazette # Mongo Gasoline (May 1992)

Logo by Ryan Eifert, Chad Woody's first minicomic, Randy Reynaldo's first minicomic, Outcault's Yellow Kid originals, Michael Dowers moves to Ocean Shores, Bil Keane Watch by Mark "Gabby" Campos, Beanworld anecdote by Chad Woody, Journey to the Far Side by Lynn Hansen, S. Minstrel gets hitched, Tim Ereneta goes all out in answering the question what would you do if you woke up in the body of Fred Flintstone, Major Mite the Munchkin from McCleary.

CLG bonus in this issue: State of beings # 10. Florida.

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.

Outside In # 14

1st edition, 1984, 200 copies on white cardstock.

2nd edition, 1984. Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, regular stock white paper.

Mike Honeycutt, Jane Oliver, Kathryn Pritz, Meher Dada, Jane Weir, James Dean Pruner, Randy Maxson.

A particularly unsettling issue, or maybe that's my feeling in hindsight since Pruner died in 1988, and Oliver in 1992. Very strong self-portraits in every case here.

This was the final issue of Outside In I edited before handing it off to Michael Dowers. A brief history of the series will be forthcoming.

Outside In # 7

1st edition, 1983, 150 copies on white cardstock.

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

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

Susan Catherine, Steve Lafler, John R. Gray III, Bruce N. Duncan, Brian Pearce, Lee Norton, Michael Dowers.

Pretty heavy on West Coasters in this one. Duncan died in 2009.

Seattle Star

Oh, Washington my home, wherever I may roam--

Michael Dowers first published the comic tabloid Seattle Star in the mid 1980s. Most of my contributions were recycled from my books, but Michael added color to several of them. Here are the colorized versions. All the black and white stuff you guys have already seen in this blog.

I liked the fact that no matter if the comic was reprinted in color or black and white, Michael liked to use a lot of my cartoons with a Washington State or Pacific Northwest theme in keeping with the Seattle Star feel.

Before Fantagraphics moved up here in the late 1980s, Michael Dowers' Starhead Comics publishing concern was probably the main venue for outsiders to learn about comix art from the Pacific Northwest.