City Limits Gazette # Ch-ch-ch-changes (Sept. 29, 1993)

Cover by Gary Usher, logos by Brad Foster - Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein - Andrew Ford - Jason Salisbury - Robert Lewis - Maximum Traffic - Gary Usher - Jenny Zervakis, CLG reader profiles of Randy Paske - Ben Adams - Randy Scott - Michael Neno - Troy Hickman - Clark Dissmeyer, Jay Kennedy makes a request, UG/Newave artists in unusual settings by Rick Bradford (a link to the future networking main man!), Robert DuPree makes a pitch, Bil Keane Watch by Ken Clinger, Matt Love responds to deep-sixing the NEA, Jeff Snee on comic art and racism, I endorse Goodman (David John Pack) for Olympia City Council, Heath Row subscribes, Maximum Traffic bids farewell to CLG but gives a hint of the coming White Buffalo Gazette, Comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Goodbye CLG, back cover by Maximum Traffic.

I did indeed move after wrapping up this issue, in 1994 to where I presently live. And I returned to producing comix, bought a photocopier, and spent a couple years with a large list of print-on-demand titles. Robert Dupree became somewhat infamous within a couple years, was chased out of the publishing world by the publication of KOOL Man, and apparently died in 2006 at the age of 57 in Massachusetts. Goodman was not, unfortunately, elected to the Olympia City Council. Lynn Hansen died in April 1995.

Michael Neno, who I finally had a chance to meet this year at SPACE, has in this issue one of my favorite quotes ever to come out of CLG: "... if you now have the freedom to do whatever you want, why in the world would you choose to do the same old formulaic stuff?"

City Limits Gazette was one wild ride.

City Limits Gazette # Pall bearers on roller skates (Oct. 1992)

A great logo by Jeff Snee, Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein makes a flashy debut, Bobby London underground Popeye, Bil Keane Watch by Sean Bieri, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station, CLG profile of Steve Willis by Hank Arakelian, A new direction for high schools by Jeff Snee, another Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, a thought by Troy Hickman, bad cover versions of Yesterday, graphic by Maximum Traffic later used as the cover for his landmark comix anthology Truth Be Known.

CLG bonus in this issue: State of beings # 14. Illinois.

McJacksonstein was in reality a fellow faculty member at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington, where I worked at the time. Psychology was his subject. Needless to say he was not using his real name.

I'm not sure but I think the last copies of Truth Be Known were practically given away in the spirit of obscuro comix at SPACE this year by Max. The cover image is included here.

Interesting to read Hank's interview with me almost two decades later as I realize I probably wouldn't alter almost every answer I gave if I was asked the same questions today. I do miss Hank and his great comix. I wish he'd resurface and give us a shout some time.

City Limits Gazette # Panda mouth wash (July 1992)

Logo by S. Minstrel, Joe Schnide climbs on board, Chad Woody reports on 1992 Chicago Comic Convention, Troy Hickman on the Fred question, Kevin Brockschmidt gets hitched, Mary Longo on the hobbyism, Mark Campos presents a very special Bil Keane Watch, Lynn Hansen visits McCleary and drops off comix reviews and a list of titles he thinks Kennedy missed.

On the final point, Dogtown Zoo was indeed too late to fit into Jay's Guide. In fact, Jay went to some trouble to squeeze in my first two issues of Cranium Frenzy before his deadline.

City Limits Gazette # Feverish clambake (Dec. 1991)

What is selling out?, Bil Keane Watch by Troy Hickman, Jay Kennedy on the Guide and also Bil Keane, Hector chain cartoon, Lynn Hansen comix reviews, news from Matt Feazell, Jim Danky describes the State Historical Society of Wisconsin comix collection, bad cover versions of Long and Winding Road, Love Me Do.