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)

Emergency Horse: A Dog Named Barfy / by Mike Lee

Mike Lee's essay included The Bil Keane Watch in this Portland, Oregon tabloid.

Bil Keane Watch run amok

CLG readers had a lot of fun deconstructing Bil Keane's Family Circus in a running feature I called "The Bil Keane Watch." I understand the Keane family came to regard our treatment of Family Circus as their favorite satire of Zen Master Bil's work.

One weird and complex spinoff from covering Keane's work resulted in CLG getting a mention in Harper's Magazine. Originally they were interested in the Watch, but they shifted their focus to something else. Mike Lee of Eugene, Oregon's Emergency Horse tells the tale.

From City Limits Gazette # Zoop (Apr. 1993)