Mini-Comics Day, May 26, 2012, in McCleary

Mini-Comics Day
McCleary Community Center
726 W. Simpson Ave.
McCleary, Washington
9 am-3 pm

 http://www.minicomics.org/

Last year on the first Mini-Comics Day I was inspired to draw one (Beholder of the Eye), so even if no one shows up, at least I'll produce an annual 8-page work.

Holding an event like this in a rural area might seem insane, but on the other hand my county produced painter Robert Motherwell, comic artist John Workman (who I was acquainted with as a fellow hangerouter at Eaton's Bookstall in Aberdeen in the early 1970s), music artists Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, and the wonderful author Angelo Pellegrini. So it is always dangerous to underestimate this obscure edge of the U.S. of A.

A Bibliographic Profile of McCleary Authors

Sam Lanning, Ernest Teagle, John Langenbach, John Fred Bell, Van Boling, Emma Heslep, Angelo Pellegrini, Bob Cooper, Ray Craft, Roy Craft, Walt Tornquist, Norman Porter, Bill Sheets, Bryan Willis.

Not a bad literary lineup for little old McCleary, Washington.

Phone photo 210

McCleary, Washington, east end of town looking north. This part of town, where I lived 1986-1994, was known as "Little Italy" in the old days. It was also where one of our most famous residents, Angelo Pellegrini, first discovered American culture and described it so well in his writings. I used to live kitty corner from the Pellegrini house. It was fun to read his essays about McCleary and then simply look out of my window to see the very neighborhood he was telling us about.