Prehistoric Proto-Internet Review of Morty

In 1986-1988, while working in a temp job in The Evergreen State College Library, a student named Ms. Greenberg would occasionally pay me a visit and want to talk comix. I don't know how she found me, but she was a Morty fan. I enjoyed visiting with her whenever she came by. I recall she was unfailingly cheerful and pleasant, which of course made me wonder even more how she could've been a Morty reader.

But she was, and I was grateful that such an upbeat person found something of worth in my comix.

One day in the Spring of 1987 she brought me this printout sent by her friend Casey Boyd of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was the first time I ever saw any of my works reviewed by an online source.

This was also the first time I saw an email address, including the use of the "@" symbol. Of course, I didn't see it online, I just saw the printout. I wouldn't be exposed to BITNET as part of my job at WLN until 1990.

Anyway, it turns out hsu@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU is Dr. William Tsun-yuk Hsu, now a professor of computer science at San Francisco State University.

So Dr. Bill Hsu, a very belated thank you for providing what was probably the very first online mention of my work. And thank you Casey and Ms. Greenberg, wherever you are, for giving me the info.

City Limits Gazette # Red is for stop, yellow for danger, green is for go, and that's how it is (June 1993)

Logo by Mel. White, number for this issue come from the lyrics of a hit song composed by my brother Bryan, Kilodney update, WSU comix collection in WLN, Evergreen ReView, Bil Keane Watch by Andrew Roller - Randy H. Crawford, I rant again, naked preacher update, Suspended Animation, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Spain Rodriguez, Other Sounds by Wayno, Jane J. Oliver and Comix World by Gary Usher, more on Canadian Customs and censorship by Jacques Boivin.

City Limits Gazette # 8080642 (July 1991)

Jerry Riddle on comix definitions, Bil Keane bibliography on a WLN printout, bad cover versions of Hard Day's Night, Hello Goodbye.

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Illustrated

I picked up this old dog-eared copy and found a couple drawings in it I probably made about 1982. This book was my occupational Bible throughout the 1980s.

Folkomix

Folkomix was a term I invented that pretty much fell flat with my comix comrades. Brad Foster even created a minicomic making fun of it. I later came up with "obscuro" and that seemed to stick with a particular type of self-published comic.

In 1985 I made three printings of this catalog, a total of 16 copies. The entire thing was compiled the old-fashioned way. No computers. Only index cards and a typewriter.

Washington State University has since split the comix collection into subgroups. This particular list represents the entire collection as of 1985, combining the classic undergrounds that already existed in a dusty box hidden away in the Rare Books section plus the comix that poured in when I sounded the call to the Newave network.

In the 1990s I input the bibliographic entries into the WLN database. Hence the notations. They can still be found in the WSU catalog, but I don't know how many of them migrated to OCLC when WLN was absorbed into that utility.

There are also two supplements to this catalog. I'm not sure if the binding will permit me to scan them.