Cryogenic Comix # 27

Cryogenic Comix # 27
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

The "N.E. Vermont" drawing is a reference to a part of that state the locals call "The Northeast Kingdom," regarded (at least when I lived in Burlington in 1979) as a bastion of "old" Vermont the same way Grays Harbor County is regarded as a part of "old" Washington State.

This reminds that I drew a rough draft for a children's book while in Vermont. It was a story about a little dragon, I think. I left it with a small publisher somewhere in the middle of the state and then forgot all about it. Oh well.

Postcard - Vermont

"Sugaring in Vermont. Horses stand ready to pull the gathered sap back to the sugarhouse."

1970s.

Keep [LOOK AT ME! LOOK At ME!] Weird

The "Keep [Blank] Weird" trend supposedly started in Austin, but has spread like eczema across the cultural epidermis. So sad.

Maybe it was original the first time it was used, but now it is hardly unique or creative.

To me the whole idea of weirdness is that the subject in question is out of touch with common reality and somewhat unaware of their own weirdness. Rotary Club meetings are weird. Most of the small towns in southwest Washington State are weird. The Tea Party is weird. Cats are weird. People who wear bicycle helmets indoors are weird. Silverware is weird.

Actually most of life is weird. But among the things that are not weird are cities, or entire states, that jump up and down and shout "Look at us! We're weird!" That's not weird, that's just marketing, which is pretty mundane. Since my motto is "Drabness is Goodness," I can hardly complain about this "Keep ... Weird" ad campaign, so I'll embrace the paradox as part of normal pop culture.