Friday, July 15, 2011

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.

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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.

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Centralia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # Terra Waldo (Sept. 1991)





Logo by Dan W. Taylor, who also donated a nice heap of publications to the Washington State University Library comix collection, Ben Adams (the Minnesota Ben as opposed to the California Ben) joins up, profile and bibliography of Kevin Collier, we all wonder who was walking around in the giant Richie Rich head and realize Bruce Chrislip has some explaining to do, bad cover versions of Here There and Everywhere, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude.

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Centralia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # Banjo on my knee (Sept. 1991)





Death of Rick Griffin, Bil Keane Watch, Bruce Bolinger sends some censorship trivia involving the ATF and French painter Jean Dubuffet, Michael Neno climbs aboard, bad cover versions of Helter Skelter, Her Majesty, Here Comes the Sun, Here There and Everywhere.

This issue featured the first CLG bonus, State of Beings # 1. Alabama, which was included in the mailings to all subscribers. Since I have already scanned all of the State of Beings series, I'll just be providing links as they show up in the CLG run.

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Centralia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # 29, 70, 5, 2, 33, 110, 72, [etc., etc.] (Aug. 1991)





Bil Keane Watch including Mark Campos, American Libraries cartoonist guidelines (this entry will eventually gain national recognition and get me in trouble with my librarian colleagues), another Bil Keane Watch (and illustration) by Wayno, Brad Foster gets hitched, bad cover versions of Help.

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Centralia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # pongo (Aug. 1991)















Book thief Stephen Blumberg passes over WSU Library's comix collection, logo by S. Minstrel, another logo by Dan W. Taylor, Mike Culpepper on Kennedy's Guide, the Bil Keane Watch read out loud by Bruce Chrislip at SPACE 2011 with such great emotion I was reduced to tears-- of laughter, Return to Normalcy (Mad Hatter's Tea Party International), reviews by Lynn Hansen, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger.

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Centralia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # hup, hup, hey! (July 1991)









The first issue to exceed 4 pages. I respond to Peter Bagge's Morty the Dog vol. 2 intro, Lynn Hansen moves to California, Leonard Rifas in Sri Lanka, Bruce Chrislip, Wayno report on San Diego 1991, Bil Keane Watch with Randy Scott and Randy Paske, reviews by Lynn Hansen, Steve Lafler's San Diego report (original provided below)