City Limits Gazette # Harry & Lena ride the Jell-o jitney (Sept. 1993)

Logo by Sasa Rakezic, we reach 90 subscribers, a nice note from Andrew Ford, San Diego report by Wayno, Sean Wilson and Steve Lafler on the drug thing, Letter from Yugoslavia by Sasa Rakezic, Cincinnati philanthropist David Chrislip drops big bucks on CLG, Clay Geerdes with Clark Dissmeyer and Marc Myers, CLG reader profile of Randy Reynaldo, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Spain Rodriguez, Jeff Snee describes the pain of kidney stones (I defy you to find another comix zine that carried a news item like this!), CLG reader profile of Steve Lafler (turns out that's J.R. Williams pictured with him), Obscuro Press 1972 by Gary Usher, CLG reader profile of Jonathan Tegnell, Tim Erenata responds to deep-sixing the NEA, Bil Keane Watch by Bruce Sweeney - Maximum Traffic, CLG reader profile of Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, I announce the next issue of CLG will be my last.

City Limits Gazette # Nirvana Claw (July 1993)

Cover by the Zen Master himself Bil Keane, Richard Wayne and Leonard Rifas sign up, Dissmeyer and Datmyers, I defend Comics Buyers Guide, Small press cares by Andrew Ford, View of wank minis by Maximum Traffic, Not really a Westercon report by Bruce Chrislip, Bil Keane Watch by Kel Crum - Randy H. Crawford - Wayno, Satanism and Republicans in Thurston County, Kilodney update, Report from Yugoslavia by Sasa Rakezic, CLG reader profile of Bruce Bolinger, Other Sounds by Wayno, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

Alas! Comics

McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1994. Reprint of Alas 1-3. Print-on-demand

In the mid-1990s I tried my hand at being an obscuro publisher and distributor (handling unsold inventory for Clay Geerdes and Dale Luciano) as well as reprinting my old stuff on a print-on-demand basis.

But I also brought several works by others into print. I'll be scanning and posting the books where my role was strictly that of an editor and publisher and including them in this blog for the next while.

One artist I was eager to publish and introduce to a wider audience was Sasa Rakezic (a.k.a. Aleksandar Zograf), the Serbian cartoonist who produced a series of chilling and dream-like minicomix fed by his personal experiences from the turmoil in the Yugoslavia. At the time this comic was published, Sasa was still a relatively unknown artist in the United States outside of the obscuro network.

A great example of creation under fire and some of the most interesting comix I've ever read.

Alas Comics