The Diogenes Club
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Help Build a New Comix Zine!
Bruce Chrislip, Colin Upton, Blake Werts
SPACE 2011, Columbus, Ohio
Our friend Blake Werts has either lost his mind or is a visionary (I'm going with the latter, but he might wind up in the former after a year or two of this project!).
Please take a look at this news release and give Blake some feedback. I have already contributed an essay for the first issue:
January 18, 2014
Charlotte, NC
Greetings mini comix fan,
It all started when I made a half-joking proclamation to Dan W. Taylor, "We
should start a mini comix news zine!" Dan wasted no time responding, more or
less, with "Blake, that sounds like a great thing for YOU to do.." Fast
forward a few years and I still have the itch. This idea was mentioned in an
email exchange with Richard Krauss, and next thing I know I was getting both
words of encouragement and lots of great suggestions on how we could make it
happen. Would it be possible to recapture some of the "paperNet" of years
past? I won't be so bold as to say we'll rebuild the sizable networks that
congregated around Clay Geerdes' "Comix World/Comix Wave" or Bruce Chrislip
and Steve Willis' "City Limits Gazette," but I'm excited to give it a try.
All I need is a little help from you..
Below you'll find a few questions to gather current information. It will be
compiled and published in our first few issues. Then, as you create new
material, or have updates that you'd like to share with the community, just
let us know and we'll help spread the word. Also planned are interviews,
biographies, histories, artwork, and maybe a few surprises from Steve
Willis!
Please help us get this started by answering the enclosed questionnaire and
returning it to me as soon as you get a chance. Of course, you can email
your responses to me at bwerts@vnet.net if you'd rather.
Much appreciated!
D. Blake Werts
12339 Chesley Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277
Please answer and mail/respond to:
D. Blake Werts
12339 Chesley Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277
bwerts@vnet.net
1. What's happening? Are you currently active in cartooning or any other
creative endeavors?
2. Do you have any new comix or zines available? If so, what are the details
(size, page count, cost)?
3. Do you have any older comix or zines available? If so, what are the
details (size, page count, cost)?
4. Will you consider trades?
5. Best way to contact you? Postal mailing address? Email address?
6. Besides this newsletter, how can readers keep up with your work? Are you
are active online?
7. What would you like to see in a newsletter / zine about mini comix?
8. Any announcements you'd like to make?
9. Would you be willing to contribute a spot cartoon or cover artwork for an
issue?
10. Any other mini comikers we should contact?
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Charlotte, NC
Greetings mini comix fan,
It all started when I made a half-joking proclamation to Dan W. Taylor, "We
should start a mini comix news zine!" Dan wasted no time responding, more or
less, with "Blake, that sounds like a great thing for YOU to do.." Fast
forward a few years and I still have the itch. This idea was mentioned in an
email exchange with Richard Krauss, and next thing I know I was getting both
words of encouragement and lots of great suggestions on how we could make it
happen. Would it be possible to recapture some of the "paperNet" of years
past? I won't be so bold as to say we'll rebuild the sizable networks that
congregated around Clay Geerdes' "Comix World/Comix Wave" or Bruce Chrislip
and Steve Willis' "City Limits Gazette," but I'm excited to give it a try.
All I need is a little help from you..
Below you'll find a few questions to gather current information. It will be
compiled and published in our first few issues. Then, as you create new
material, or have updates that you'd like to share with the community, just
let us know and we'll help spread the word. Also planned are interviews,
biographies, histories, artwork, and maybe a few surprises from Steve
Willis!
Please help us get this started by answering the enclosed questionnaire and
returning it to me as soon as you get a chance. Of course, you can email
your responses to me at bwerts@vnet.net if you'd rather.
Much appreciated!
D. Blake Werts
12339 Chesley Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277
Please answer and mail/respond to:
D. Blake Werts
12339 Chesley Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277
bwerts@vnet.net
1. What's happening? Are you currently active in cartooning or any other
creative endeavors?
2. Do you have any new comix or zines available? If so, what are the details
(size, page count, cost)?
3. Do you have any older comix or zines available? If so, what are the
details (size, page count, cost)?
4. Will you consider trades?
5. Best way to contact you? Postal mailing address? Email address?
6. Besides this newsletter, how can readers keep up with your work? Are you
are active online?
7. What would you like to see in a newsletter / zine about mini comix?
8. Any announcements you'd like to make?
9. Would you be willing to contribute a spot cartoon or cover artwork for an
issue?
10. Any other mini comikers we should contact?
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Serenade
From 1935 by the Calumet Music Company. Interesting that sheet music by Franz Schubert has advertisements for cowboy songs on the back cover.
Friday, February 7, 2014
That Wonderful Souvenir Strain : Fox Trot Song
When I was a teenager I loved going to record stores and thumbing through the LP albums just to enjoy the graphic design of the covers.
But before my time, there was commercial sheet music and I find myself enjoying the cover graphics of this music-related medium in much the same way.
This piece appears to have been published in 1922 or 1923, and is local!
But before my time, there was commercial sheet music and I find myself enjoying the cover graphics of this music-related medium in much the same way.
This piece appears to have been published in 1922 or 1923, and is local!
Favorite Movie Quotes: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Phone photo 3158
During its heyday in the 1960s, The Trail's End was out in the country in the Tumwater area, hosting lots of horse and pony shows and events. Since we raised Shetland and New Forest ponies, this was a place we'd visit from time to time.
The place has been closed up and derelict for quite awhile, and residential sprawl has caught up to the surrounding area. Today it could serve as a nice location for a B-movie.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
OK My Town Is Going Nuts Right Now
The Seahawks won and about half of the 1600 souls in my little town are honking horns, firing guns, lighting fireworks, yelling in the streets. The last time I saw this much public celebration around here was when Obama got Osama. It is really something to witness.
Well, good. Washington, my home, deserves to finally have some national win of any sort in the sports world. I am not a football fan, but I like the way this has generated a lift in morale for folks around here. Sort of like Christmas has been extended up here in our Far Left corner of the USA.
Phone photo 3153
The Fab Four huddle close on a winter night
Clockwise from top: Buster, Hettie, Charlie, Dreamer
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Fifteen Heart Attacks, p. 20-21, by Mike Hill!
The Fifteen Heart Attacks online jam lives on! One of my favorite ever cartoonists, Mike Hill, who lives in Western Pennsylvania (a part of the country I have learned to love), contributed the following. Thank you Mike for climbing aboard!
Morty Comix # 2691
Dreamer, Buster, and Hettie seem unconcerned as I toss in Morty Comix # 2691 as an extra bonus as part of an order I got this weekend for original art (from Storm Warnings) and a packet of vintage City Limits Gazette issues. The whole package is headed Back East.
Favorite Movie Quotes: Man With the Screaming Brain
"You must forget to remember, before you remember to forget."
Favorite Movie Quotes: Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold
"They love and breathe fear. Not I. Let the blow come quickly and the blood run red!"
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