City Limits Gazette # Ch-ch-ch-changes (Sept. 29, 1993)

Cover by Gary Usher, logos by Brad Foster - Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein - Andrew Ford - Jason Salisbury - Robert Lewis - Maximum Traffic - Gary Usher - Jenny Zervakis, CLG reader profiles of Randy Paske - Ben Adams - Randy Scott - Michael Neno - Troy Hickman - Clark Dissmeyer, Jay Kennedy makes a request, UG/Newave artists in unusual settings by Rick Bradford (a link to the future networking main man!), Robert DuPree makes a pitch, Bil Keane Watch by Ken Clinger, Matt Love responds to deep-sixing the NEA, Jeff Snee on comic art and racism, I endorse Goodman (David John Pack) for Olympia City Council, Heath Row subscribes, Maximum Traffic bids farewell to CLG but gives a hint of the coming White Buffalo Gazette, Comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Goodbye CLG, back cover by Maximum Traffic.

I did indeed move after wrapping up this issue, in 1994 to where I presently live. And I returned to producing comix, bought a photocopier, and spent a couple years with a large list of print-on-demand titles. Robert Dupree became somewhat infamous within a couple years, was chased out of the publishing world by the publication of KOOL Man, and apparently died in 2006 at the age of 57 in Massachusetts. Goodman was not, unfortunately, elected to the Olympia City Council. Lynn Hansen died in April 1995.

Michael Neno, who I finally had a chance to meet this year at SPACE, has in this issue one of my favorite quotes ever to come out of CLG: "... if you now have the freedom to do whatever you want, why in the world would you choose to do the same old formulaic stuff?"

City Limits Gazette was one wild ride.

City Limits Gazette # Mermaid, mermaid, have you ever seen blood? (Sept. 1992)

Logo by Chad Woody, the number for this issue came from a song my innocent little daughter just made up while playing on the swingset, Bob Richart on Wayno and Wow Cool!, Gary Usher joins us, not buying Comics F/X, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Edward Martin III compares Morty and Garfield, Michael Neno on the Fred question, CLG reader profile of Lynn Hansen, Bil Keane Watch by Mike Lee, CLG reader profile of Michael Dowers.

I'm including the Morty/Garfield strips Ed is talking about. The Morty strip was drawn in 1986 for The Cooper Point Journal and reprinted in Morty Without Tears ; and, Planet of the Bobs (1989)

City Limits Gazette # Banjo on my knee (Sept. 1991)

Death of Rick Griffin, Bil Keane Watch, Bruce Bolinger sends some censorship trivia involving the ATF and French painter Jean Dubuffet, Michael Neno climbs aboard, bad cover versions of Helter Skelter, Her Majesty, Here Comes the Sun, Here There and Everywhere.

This issue featured the first CLG bonus, State of Beings # 1. Alabama, which was included in the mailings to all subscribers. Since I have already scanned all of the State of Beings series, I'll just be providing links as they show up in the CLG run.

SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 3

Steven Hager and Bruce Rosenberger publish the Dutchy Digest, a comic with regional humor and the kind of thing you'll only find through the small press. More than an entertaining comic title, it is also a cultural document that will no doubt be valuable to future historians on many levels. The duo was lucky to have one of the best locations at the exposition, right next to the entrance.

Michael Neno was one of the CLG subscribers during my editorship and someone I was really hoping to meet at SPACE. He has recently launched an impressive comic series called Signifiers.

This unfortunately fuzzy phone photo captures Steven and Bruce at their table, with Michael paying a visit.