Cryogenic Comix # 38

Cryogenic Comix # 38
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

Felt tip on a sketchpad, Burlington, Vermont, Sept. 1979. Note the appearance of Morty the Human.

The third image could be a drawing of the brother of Benb, one of my favorite of Steve's Lafler's great characters-- of course at the time I had yet to know Steve or his work. My introduction the whole Newave comix scene was still a couple years away.

The Comix Files: Steve Beaupre

Steve Beaupre and I had a brief correspondence in the early 1980s. Based in Hudson, Massachusetts, Steve was a co-editor with Steve Lafler in the Buzzard series. I liked the way Beaupre decorated the margins of his letters.

Deep Thinks Animation

A bite-sized animation by John Eades. This one is an adaptation of a one-pager I drew in the mid-1980s. If I'm not mistaken I think this first appeared in a comic published by Steve Lafler, and has been reprinted a few times in different places. Jay Kennedy even made a little sculpture of Morty based on this drawing.

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 # Bonanzaland grab grab grab (Sept. 1993)

Logo by David Lasky, the number for this issue was my nod to Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan, Robert Boyd donates to the WSU comix collection, Robert Dupree signs up (more on him later), a note from Clay Geerdes, more comix bibliomania by Jay Kennedy, Bil Keane Watch by Greg Stomberg - Mark Campos, a Maximum Traffic poem by Ted Bolman, Dissmeyer and Datmyers in drag, Suspended Animation by Michael Vance and R.A. Jones, San Diego report by Steve Lafler, Joe Singer 1950-1993, Trial of Mike Diana, CLG/Comicist survey form.