Saturday, July 23, 2011

City Limits Gazette # Pall bearers on roller skates (Oct. 1992)










A great logo by Jeff Snee, Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein makes a flashy debut, Bobby London underground Popeye, Bil Keane Watch by Sean Bieri, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station, CLG profile of Steve Willis by Hank Arakelian, A new direction for high schools by Jeff Snee, another Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, a thought by Troy Hickman, bad cover versions of Yesterday, graphic by Maximum Traffic later used as the cover for his landmark comix anthology Truth Be Known.

CLG bonus in this issue: State of beings # 14. Illinois.

McJacksonstein was in reality a fellow faculty member at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington, where I worked at the time. Psychology was his subject. Needless to say he was not using his real name.

I'm not sure but I think the last copies of Truth Be Known were practically given away in the spirit of obscuro comix at SPACE this year by Max. The cover image is included here.

Interesting to read Hank's interview with me almost two decades later as I realize I probably wouldn't alter almost every answer I gave if I was asked the same questions today. I do miss Hank and his great comix. I wish he'd resurface and give us a shout some time.

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Portland, Oregon

City Limits Gazette # Overwhelming sadness of the monkey trapped in the garage (Sept. 1992)









Logo by Mark Campos, Bil Keane Watch by Maximum Traffic, San Diego Con report by Ryan Eifert, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Bruce Bolinger, Comics and Wrestling by Jerry Riddle, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Yet another Bil Keane Watch by Ben Adams (of Minneapolis), Bob Richart likes Wow Cool and the work of Sam Henderson.

This issue included: State of beings # 13. Idaho.

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Firemen playing basketball, downtown Portland, Oregon

City Limits Gazette # It's no fun being in a tiger suit alone, or an elephant suit either (Sept. 1992)











Logo by Frank Gilbert Lloyd Jr., Robert Lewis (of Michigan) asks what happened to Factsheet Five?, Toivo Rovainen on the last days of Comics F/X, Cartooning at the O.K. Hotel by Bruce Chrislip, Bil Keane Watch by Mark Campos, Gary Usher and indexing The Comics Journal, another Bil Keane Watch by Clark Dissmeyer.

Included as a bonus in this issue: State of beings # 12. Hawaii.

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This is second time I have caught one of these little guys on the ground. The first one was in Olympia, this one in Newberg, Oregon. There will be another photo I'll post in the future coming from a Tumwater location. What is there about these discarded portable floss gizmos that I find so disturbing?

City Limits Gazette # Mermaid, mermaid, have you ever seen blood? (Sept. 1992)

















Logo by Chad Woody, the number for this issue came from a song my innocent little daughter just made up while playing on the swingset, Bob Richart on Wayno and Wow Cool!, Gary Usher joins us, not buying Comics F/X, comix reviews by Lynn Hansen, Edward Martin III compares Morty and Garfield, Michael Neno on the Fred question, CLG reader profile of Lynn Hansen, Bil Keane Watch by Mike Lee, CLG reader profile of Michael Dowers.

I'm including the Morty/Garfield strips Ed is talking about. The Morty strip was drawn in 1986 for The Cooper Point Journal and reprinted in Morty Without Tears ; and, Planet of the Bobs (1989)

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Newberg, Oregon

City Limits Gazette # Je me souviens (Aug. 1992)













Logo by Maximum Traffic, Ed Martin joins Dark Horse, Bil Keane Watch, Civic Karma in McCleary, CLG reader profile of Mark Campos, Michael Dowers returns to Seattle, John E. becomes a father, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, The Fallacy of California Redemption Value by Lynn Hansen.

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Portland, Oregon