I took part in the program
Animation, Comics and Graphic Novels: A Great Evergreen Tradition as part of the 40th anniversary of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. On my way there I was saddened to see the Handy Pantry, or the "H.P.," a place we used to go to on frequent beer runs back in the 1970s, apparently in a state of stasis.
The TESC Steam Plant. Sometimes we would sneak past the guy in the glass office and gain entry into the maze of
steam tunnels that honeycomb the campus.
Dorm A. In 1974 Matt Groening lived in the room with the window on the 2nd floor far left. The next window was my room. He was the first person I met on my first day at Evergreen.
One time Lynda Barry and I were walking together and at this point she grabbed me and made me hide with her around a corner while a conceptual artist walked by. "That man hates art!" she trembled. The actual corner has since been obliterated by building expansion.
A lecture hall where one of our classmates in Shakespeare and the Age of Elizabeth vaulted over several rows of seats to beat up someone he didn't like in 1979.
Setting up
With Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson, Craig Bartlett, Matt Groening, Megan Kelso, Drew Christie
Evergreen faculty Ruth Hayes, who will moderate, joins the group
Showtime begins
The geoduck, Evergreen's mascot
