Showing posts with label Michael Stengl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Stengl. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2011

City Limits Gazette # Upside up (Aug. 1993)













Logo by Sean Wilson, Joe Zabel and Robert Lewis and Robert Boyd sign up, Bil Keane Watch by Gary Usher - Greg Stomberg - William Dockery, Sean Wilson on Canadian censorship, Underground comix sacred cows comment by Gary Usher, Steve Lafler's opinion from left field, Review of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics by Joe Zabel, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Spain Rodriguez, Dissmeyer and Datmyers again, Suspended Animation by Michael Vance and R.A. Jones, response to deep-sixing the NEA by M. Stengl, Weirdness in Butler County by Maximum Traffic.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

City Limits Gazette # Ecstatic static on automatic (Mar. 1993)














Logo by Jeff Zenick, Harper's gives CLG some ink, Maximum Traffic on the Bizarros, CLG reader profile of Jerry Riddle, Minneapolis Ben Adams on Morty the Dog, Comix reviews by Lynn Hansen with logo by Jeff Snee, Maximum Traffic on Nixon, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Spain Rodriguez, Mike Stengl 20 years ago, Wayno on space fantasy stamps.

I'm including a scan of the actual Harper's piece. It is humorous they couldn't handle CLG's unique numbering system and had to shorten it a bit. Here's a link to the CLG in question. Initially attracted to CLG by the Bil Keane Watch, Harper's decided to focus on this librarian item instead. Fallout will follow.

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.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

City Limits Gazette # ... (June 1992)












Logo by Maximum Traffic, Jamie Alder-Hank Arakelian-Jim Ryan World War, Randy Reynaldo news, Michael Stengl signs up, Bob Richart gives a long answer to the Fred Flintstone question while Jane Oliver gives a brief one, The Pizz on TV, State of beings # 11. Georgia written by my nephew Tristan Sill, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Brad Foster on selling out, The Bil Keane Watch by Bruce Chrislip, Mary Longo joins CLG.