City Limits Gazette # ... (June 1992)

Logo by Maximum Traffic, Jamie Alder-Hank Arakelian-Jim Ryan World War, Randy Reynaldo news, Michael Stengl signs up, Bob Richart gives a long answer to the Fred Flintstone question while Jane Oliver gives a brief one, The Pizz on TV, State of beings # 11. Georgia written by my nephew Tristan Sill, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Brad Foster on selling out, The Bil Keane Watch by Bruce Chrislip, Mary Longo joins CLG.

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The mouse in a tree.

Dreamer, one of the four cats who dwell at my place, caught this mouse and started playing with the rodent. Well, the little guy managed to slip away and climbed a young hemlock in my yard. This gained the interest of other cats who began gathering at the base of the tree, looking up and licking their chops.

Here is a phone photo of the mouse precariously hanging from an uppermost hemlock tree limb, gazing down upon at least three cats of doom.

But even though Kaspar Hauser supposedly uttered "Many cats are the sure death of a mouse" on his deathbed, my felines apparently got bored and went inside to watch TV while the mouse was allowed to escape and live another day.

City Limits Gazette # Albanian sponge (June 1992)

Logo by the incredible Bruce Bolinger, Bill Gaines dies at age 70, Robert Stike "Sick Stick" dies at age 41, Bil Keane Watch, Ben Adams (of Minneapolis) answers many questions, Lynn Hansen on Ronald Gabriel Vicens II "Gato", CLG profile of Jeff Nicholson, responses to the hobby question by Jerry Riddle, Jay Kennedy, Michael Stengl, Jeffrey Kipper, Max Traffic being Max Traffic, bad cover versions of Strawberry Fields Forever, Sun King, Taxman, Tell Me Why, There's a Place, Things We Said Today, This Boy, Ticket to Ride, Tomorrow Never Knows, Two of Us, Wait, We Can Work It Out, What Goes On, When I'm Sixty Four.

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Blacktopping on Olympia's Westside

City Limits Gazette # Winged Monkey Angel Laughing at Midnight (May 1992)

Logo by Chad Woody, giant fungus in Washington State, Jim Ryan continues the feud with Hank Arakelian, are we a hobby or what?, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Larry Todd, CLG profile of David Chrislip, Good v.s. Bad.

Last spring I had a chance to actually see many of the comics David talks about in the profile when Bruce Chrislip took me to his brother's house in Cincinnati last March.

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City Limits Gazette # Mongo Gasoline (May 1992)

Logo by Ryan Eifert, Chad Woody's first minicomic, Randy Reynaldo's first minicomic, Outcault's Yellow Kid originals, Michael Dowers moves to Ocean Shores, Bil Keane Watch by Mark "Gabby" Campos, Beanworld anecdote by Chad Woody, Journey to the Far Side by Lynn Hansen, S. Minstrel gets hitched, Tim Ereneta goes all out in answering the question what would you do if you woke up in the body of Fred Flintstone, Major Mite the Munchkin from McCleary.

CLG bonus in this issue: State of beings # 10. Florida.

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Salish Land
Olympia, Washington

City Limits Gazette # Milk of Human Kindness (Apr. 1992)

Logo by Mark Campos. Mark's logo here is one of my faves. OK, I might be coming across as a heretic here, but did Brando ever make an appearance in a movie that was worth a damn after The Godfather? I mean, he was always interesting to watch no matter how bad the film, but in his whole career you can count the really good films on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to deliver a Moe Howard style poke in the eyes to a pretentious film buff who declares Brando a genius.

Mark Campos and Nils Osmar weigh in on a panel discussion at Cartoonists Northwest, Comics F/X news, cartoonist Joe Sumrall murdered in Rainier Washington and the case has not been solved to this day, Bil Keane Watch, A.P. McQuiddy comments on Lynn Hansen, naked man quacks like a duck in a bank, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, a tip of the hat to the great people at Pip (now out of business), comment by Ted Delorme, bad cover versions of She Loves You, She Said She Said, She's a Woman, She's Leaving Home, Something, Scott Johnson's resub.