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A weirdo thing I found in my yard when I was mowing

City Limits Gazette # !* ... (Feb. 1991)

OK comix comrades, time to get comfortable and prepare yourself for a looong haul. I'm going to scan and post every issue I published of City Limits Gazette.

Here's the first issue with an introductory essay by CLG founder Bruce Chrislip, and a bit by me declaring the death of photocopied comix. I was only half right.

Although all issues of CLG were printed on legal size, this is the only issue where it was presented in a vertical fashion, like a broadside.

I hope in the process of posting this series I get all the issues in the correct order. Here we go!

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Cascade Comix Monthly Index 1978-1981 / compiled by Gary Usher

McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1994. Print-on-demand, regular digest size.

Gary's index to Cascade Comix Monthly, a publication that was freshly dead at about the same time I learned about the whole Newave network.

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Can o' Worms issue # 2

1st edition. Olympia, Washington : The Evergreen State College, January 1992. Enlarged digest size. I'm just scanning the front and inside covers here.

A look at the contents page (by Ed Martin) is most interesting. Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, and your faithful pixel correspondent were already considered old guys almost 20 years ago!!! Jeez. A milepost worth noting for this blog.

By now the three of us must be in the fossil category.

Of this second generation of Evergroove cartoonists, I've met Edward Martin III, Cat Kenney, and Megan Kelso.

Ed was a student worker in the Evergreen library when I was employed there as Head of Cataloging 1986-1988. I liked his creativity and he was a fun conversationalist. It seems today he is a film director.

Cat Kenney, who I always liked both as an artist and person, worked in a local comic shop for awhile. She was the one who first alerted me that my work was woven into Understanding Comics.

This book has a very early example of Megan's work. I had the pleasure of meeting her this year at the Olympia Comics Fest.

I like the nice visual directory of the artists on the back cover. The previous Evergreen cartoonists anthology, Tales From the Steam Tunnels (1981), couldn't do that since most of us had already graduated when that title was published.

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Charlie on the garage roof

The Brad W. Foster Checklist : Works in Print, 1972-1994 / compiled by Gary Usher

McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1995. Regular digest size, print-on-demand.

Brad Foster made a deal with the Devil, right? How else can you explain the astounding amount of work as documented by Gary Usher in this bibliography?

In the mid-1990s I was trying to publish and encourage comix researchers to send me manuscripts in order to promote the idea our brand of comix needed to be taken seriously as an academic subject. Bibliographer extraordinaire Gary Usher sent me enough material to produce a few books, but this particular monograph was the most impressive to me of all his lists and indexes. I was also thrilled to make this available as a tribute to a great cartoonist.

Brad has produced an amazing amount of work. I would love to see if some brave bibliographer has the fortitude to update this list to the present day and annotate each entry!

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A Twinkie Weiner Sandwich
I was inspired by Weird Al's movie UHF

It tasted great but in less than an hour I was regretting this

Dirt, October 1989

"Kill the Artists" translated and published in the October 1989 issue of a Greek zine that has a title apparently translated as "Dirt." Looks like it was published in Ptolemaida, Greece.

The English version was reprinted in Retreads 9.

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Olympia, Washington