Cranium Frenzy # 7

1st edition, March 1994, 100 copies, orchid cover. All editions are regular digest size.

2nd edition, May 1994, 50 copies, goldenrod cover.

Special Micky Saunders edition, October 17, 1999, 4 copies entirely in blue.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, red cover.

If you have been following this blog since the start, you should be able to pick out the trivia with ease. The one difference here is that I think I have arranged all my usual touches with a slightly more complex storyline. Obviously I was preparing Morty for his 1999 McCleary Mayor run.

City Limits Gazette: Lynn Hansen Interview

This is from City Limits Gazette # Mermaid, mermaid, have you ever seen blood? (Sept. 1992). The issue's name came from a song my sweet little 4 year old daughter had invented and was singing with innocent joy.

One of the CLG features I enjoyed publishing were interviews with subscribers. Here's one with Lynn Hansen, who would've been 52 years old this month. He died in April 1995.

Lynn was a collector and had a regular comix review column in CLG. He was also my friend. Although he had been a house guest here in McCleary several times, and we talked on the phone and corresponded frequently, I found him to be an all-around enigmatic fellow who left a lot of mysterious loose ends when he departed. Believe me, I could write a long book about him, and maybe someday I will.

Notice also I included a sample of the "Bil Keane Watch." More on that later.

Bezango WA 985 #2

1st published Dec. 8, 2001, 50 copies, digest size, parchment cover.

2nd ed., June 2, 2002, 15 copies, digest size, blue cover.

Starting in August, 2002, this was a print-on-demand comic for a brief time.

The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed., June 2005, 5 copies (1 yellow, 1 red, 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 green)

This issue has the local festival as the theme. Here in McCleary we have the Bear Festival, where bear stew is served. Seriously. In Winlock they have Egg Days, where eggs are eaten. It makes me wonder what they consume at Montesano's Festival of People.

The mountain beaver is real animal pretty much regulated by nature to the Pacific Northwest.

The character on page 3 was someone I witnessed up in suburban King County. The man on pages 4-5 is based and modified from a story that came from Port Townsend. The guy on pages 6-7 was a neighbor. The fellow on page 12 was from a story I heard about a local character in Winlock. I have a cousin on the Winlock City Council, by the way, and need to talk to him about why they have the world's 2nd or 3rd largest egg replica on display. The page 13 character really exists to this day. Page 14: I wrote about the Midnight Sponge in Evergroove Trivia pt. 39. Page 15: This guy gave me a ride while I was hitchhiking on Cooper Point in the 1970s. Page 18, my daughter, Rose, used to collect pieces of the road.