Buttons - Comic Art - 1994

Richie Rich

On the curl: Character "Richie Rich, The Poor Little Rich Boy" (R)&(C) Harvey Publications. (C) 1994 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved

I believe this button was presented to me by a cartoonist who many of us suspect used to run around comic conventions in a giant Richie Rich head. I won't say his name but his initials are Bruce Chrislip.

City Limits Gazette # Terra Waldo (Sept. 1991)

Logo by Dan W. Taylor, who also donated a nice heap of publications to the Washington State University Library comix collection, Ben Adams (the Minnesota Ben as opposed to the California Ben) joins up, profile and bibliography of Kevin Collier, we all wonder who was walking around in the giant Richie Rich head and realize Bruce Chrislip has some explaining to do, bad cover versions of Here There and Everywhere, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude.

State of Beings #13: Idaho

Birthed into existence as an insert with City Limits Gazette # Overwhelming sadness of the monkey trapped in the garage (Sept. 1992).

For some reason I became obsessed with the fact someone ran around big comic book conventions wearing a giant cartoon head in the image of Richie Rich. This was a topic that would occasionally come up in CLG. After awhile I was convinced the person who was parading around in that getup was cartoonist and comix scholar, Bruce Chrislip. That's him in the comic, so it is almost proof this is true.

Bruce himself denied he masqueraded as Richie Rich, so we just have to take what he says at face value. Heh-heh, get it? Face value? Anyway, I did write to Harvey Comics asking about the personnel and specifics of the giant Richie Rich head, but for some reason my query was ignored.