Morty the Dog: November 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

Cats and 'Gators

Here are some cat and alligator drawings I made tonight:

Buttons - Comic Art - 1980s?

Starhead Comix

Artist unknown

This button is about the size of a nickel

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Morty Comix # 2475

Morty Comix # 2475 was placed on a metal fold in a windowsill

Faculty Club, University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Favorite Movie Quotes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

"I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead, which, I'm sure, will pass."

Phone photo 2089

Restaurant at the heart of Bay Center, Washington

When I compared this to the previous Starhead button I realized the images were actually quite different, and that they were probably made one at a time, each image on each button applied directly. Pretty amazing. I wonder how many were made like this?

Phone photo 2088

Oyster shells everywhere

Bay Center, Washington

Morty Comix # 2474

Morty Comix # 2474 was left inside a copy of In Search of the Picts : a Celtic Dark Age Nation / by Elizabeth Sutherland at the University of Washington's graduate library in Seattle.

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A pair of nice shoes left neatly on the side of the road.

Bay Center, Washington

Buttons - Comic Art - 1980s?

Starhead Comix

Looks like this was baked on to some sort of clay. Also, as a subsequent button will show, I am guessing this image was hand made and not the result of mass production.

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A very strange building that used to be a quite creepy looking Masonic Temple. It was recently cleaned up and is now a denture place, or something like that. South Bend, Washington.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Morty Comix # 2473

Morty Comix # 2473 was drawn into the sand at the ocean beach, Seaview, Washington. The wind was so incredibly strong that it was more of a threat to the art than the incoming tide!

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South Bend, Washington and the Willapa River

Buttons - Comic Art

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

I have to admit this one is sort of a mystery to me. I have a vague memory this was issued to me as an attendee of some kind of comic event, but beyond that I cannot say. Anyone recognize it?

Monday, November 26, 2012

Phone photo 2084

Free

Raymond, Washington

Morty Comix # 2472

Morty Comix # 2472 was drawn on the morning window condensation of the trailer where my brother Bryan and nephew Zach were staying at the Sou'wester in Seaview, Washington.

Too bad most of the image is lost in the photo. I guess this issue of Morty Comix is mostly lost to history as well. I realize that my current distribution of this title on the face might seem crazy, but on another level I have an audience who reads the Morty the Blog documentation of this artistic communication, although it garners very few responses from the finders. So the comic alone isn't as important as the conceptual placement and documentation, which in itself has become my new art form.

The Myth of Sisyphus by Big Al Camus probably explains my motives here better than anything else.

Back in 1965 we lost our big farm home to fire, and that was followed by seven glorious years with four of us in a trailer about the same size as the one pictured above. Our trailer was a third-hand, falling apart Great Lakes. Our Shetlands would scratch their backs on the end of the mobile home, and our whole house would shake.

But we survived intact and emerged the better for it. My own early lesson here was that material possessions are temporary and can be taken away in a flash. And when that happens, what is left?