City Limits Gazette # We're all gonna diiiiiiie!!! AIEEEEEEEE!! (May 1993)

Logo by Spaz, Maximum Traffic uses a Ted Bolman drawing to respond to Dusty Rhodes, Bil Keane Watch by Asa Sparks - Ken Clinger, Jacques Boivin and Canadian censorship, Footnote to Obscuro press pt. 2 by Gary Usher, Reviews from across the water by Peter Pavement, Maximum Traffic back on Xeric, Comics Journal small press index by Gary Usher.

City Limits Gazette # Soft white Canadians wearing gaudy sombreros in Mexicali (Apr. 1993)

Logo by Randy H. Crawford, CLG reader profile of Ted Bolman, Tallahassee 'Zine Show by Jeff Zenick, Bil Keane Watch by Jeff Zenick - Tom Jansson, Xeric Foundation by Maximum Traffic, Seth Friedman sends Factsheet Five news, Maximum Traffic responds to Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Dave Szurek describes life in Grays Harbor County, Bibliography of Virgil Franklin Partch II (VIP) by Wayno.

City Limits Gazette # Lump o' pain (Oct. 1991)

"As E-mail systems grow and paper costs rise, CLG will probably be the last of the hardcopy small press newsletters. No passwords required here."

Logo by Mel. White, Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen's study of slugs, I'm too nice, The Ghost of Vaughn Bode / by Bruce Chrislip, The Bil Keane Watch with a contrib by Ted Bolman, bad pun by Mark Campos, bad cover versions of Hey Jude, Hold Me Tight, I am the Walrus, I Call Your Name, I Dig a Pony, I Feel Fine, I Me Mine, I Saw Her Standing There, I Should Have Known Better, I Wanna Be Your Man, I Want to Hold Your Hand.

City Limits Gazette # dead porcupine icebox (Oct. 1991)

The Bil Keane Watch with input from Bob Richart, Mark Campos, and Ted Bolman, Bruce Chrislip gives a nice report on Shary Flenniken's talk to Cartoonists Northwest in Seattle, we say goodbye to the great Dr. Seuss, bad cover versions of Hey Jude.

State of Beings # 2. Alaska came with this one.

Stevetreads # 3

1st edition, 1987. Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. White cover, regular digest size.

The number of copies for the 3rd and 4th issues of this series isn't recorded in my list, but I would assume the count is low since the first two issues had a grand total of 3 copies per issue.

The name Stevetreads was a play on my Retreads title, a series devoted to reprinting items printed hither and yon into one collection (I smile as I recall Ted Bolman wanted to start yet another play on this called ReTeds, which I hope he did). Several of the pieces Jeff reprinted were actually reprints of reprints. But in this issue there was something different. Half the book was filled with new work.

Jeff had acquired several pages of unpublished jam comix between Dale Luciano and myself. This was the in-print debut for the cover art and all work from the "Memories" page to the end. These were later reprinted in 1994 in Dada Gumbo Morty.

City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 3-4

John Porcellino completes his history of City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette with two more parts.

Part 3 includes interviews with Edward Bolman, Cat Noel, Jeff Zenick, Larned Justin, Buzz Buzzyzik/Maximum Traffic/Borpo Deets.

Part 4 is a look at the amazing Millennium issue of White Buffalo Gazette.

Nice work, John! I salute you. This is a slice of first-person comix history that might otherwise have been lost without your efforts.

Modernman # 3 ; Maximum Traffic # 210

If you agree with the popular notion the 20th century ended on Dec. 31, 1999 rather than Dec. 31, 2000 (and I'm with the pops) then Modernman # 3 ; Maximum Traffic # 210 was my last published work of the 20th century.

To call this a real jam might be wrong since there was some planning and coordination behind it by that crazy man named Tom in Butler, Pennsylvania who used to call himself Maximum Traffic but has since been known by a few other monikers (my favorite being "Borpo Deets"). He was this project's originator, editor, publisher, and all-around ringmaster.

Nothing was drawn before we had script cranked out by Max, myself, and the great Mike (Worker Poet/Modernman) Hill. Mike, also a Pennsylvanian, once paid me a visit here in McCleary, when he dropped in one day when Lynn Hansen happened to be here. I used to have a photo of that event, and it is possible it is still around in this house.

Anyway, Max wanted me to do all the lettering to give the comic a more consistent look. Contributions were also made by the always amazing Hilary Barta, and a few other artists got their 2 cents in one way or another: Ted Bolman, Mark Campos, Jeff Zenick, and Sean Bieri.

The comic was published in December 1999 and the spine measures 28 cm. I'm also including a scan of the Draft edition, from October 1999, of which only 4 copies exist and is regular digest size.

The Jasper the Pleasant Ghost toy story is actually based on a toy my brother once had and is essentially true. Well, partly true. OK, a little bit true. I've retold this tale in different forms in 3 or 4 comix. It's called recycling. One of the benefits of posting all this old stuff is that I am starting to see where I repeat myself a lot like some old coot blathering away in the corner of the bus station. Hopefully when I put together my next work I'll do something different.

Curve-Vision Man came from a conversation with one of my cousins in the early 1970s. We were talking about useless superpowers, and he mentioned this particular talent, which has stuck in my head ever since.