Seattle Star

Oh, Washington my home, wherever I may roam--

Michael Dowers first published the comic tabloid Seattle Star in the mid 1980s. Most of my contributions were recycled from my books, but Michael added color to several of them. Here are the colorized versions. All the black and white stuff you guys have already seen in this blog.

I liked the fact that no matter if the comic was reprinted in color or black and white, Michael liked to use a lot of my cartoons with a Washington State or Pacific Northwest theme in keeping with the Seattle Star feel.

Before Fantagraphics moved up here in the late 1980s, Michael Dowers' Starhead Comics publishing concern was probably the main venue for outsiders to learn about comix art from the Pacific Northwest.

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Tumwater, Washington

Stripped of Humor? / by David Altaner

From the Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), September 1, 1993. Another news article quoting City Limits Gazette as well as mentioning the Bil Keane Watch at just about the same time I was ending the series.

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I'm Back!

Went down to Oregon on a secret mission for a couple days. But now I'm back and meaner than ever!

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Underground Comics Surface in Pullman

I can't remember where the author of this article was based. Here's what the AP version looked like as published by the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, August 20, 1989. By this time the organized collection was already 5 years old but apparently the concept of comix in research libraries was still considered worthy of journalistic interest.

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The Family Circus Unveiled / by Mark Campos

From: Reflex, v. 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993)

Mark Campos was one of the best writers among the City Limits Gazette contributors. This article came out at the same time I retired CLG.

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The Groening of America / by Paul Andrews

From Pacific, August 19, 1990, the Sunday supplement magazine for the Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer. My Mother-in-Law, God bless her, gave me this clipping and helpfully underlined my name whenever she saw it.

Andrews first talked to me at least two years before this piece was published, so he put some time into this.

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This is Our 1000th Post

And I still have a ton of stuff yet to scan and share. But it will come to an end eventually and after that-- who knows?

"Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it."