Buttons - Comic Art - 1988

1988 Morty Awards

Steve Willis

Arnie's Hall of Fame

The button is browning up a bit. This was from the Comics F/X Morty Awards.

$300 - Original Art - Rainmaker Painraker

"Rainmaker Painmaker" original art, first appeared in Storm Warnings (1986)

12 pages, nonphoto blue pencil and felt tip on light bond, 11.5 x 9 inches.

In good condition. No whiteout or paste-ups from what I can see.

Includes cameo appearances by Arnie Wormwood, Morty the Dog, and Brad Foster (as a character, not as a contributing artist).

This is not one of my favorite stories. I always felt it was one of my more predictable and conventional pieces. Maudlin too. But, it seems those who are enjoy predictable and conventional comics like this story even if they are uncomfortable with my regular fare.

300 smackeroos is my asking price.

$300 ppd.
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Cartoonists Northwest February 15, 1991

A broadside announcing my speaking engagement with the Seattle-based Cartoonists Northwest. But hey, what's with "We're a bit weird as well."? Are they suggesting I am "weird"? Obviously misconceptions like this have forced me to defend myself with documentary proof I am quite, quite normal.

Steve Willis and Morty the Dog : Sometimes You Feel Like a Mutt / by Bruce Chrislip

An article Bruce Chrislip wrote for The Comics Journal # 219 (January 2000).

A nice way to say goodbye to the 20th Century.

1989/1990 Morty Award Nominations

The form from the MU Press folks. A snapshot of cartoonists from our genre of comix over two decades ago.

For the results, check out my post of May 12, Comics F/X Morty Awards

Move Over Superman, Make Way for Morty / by Johnny Dodd

A profile piece on Edd Vick and Miscellanea Unlimited Press from the University Herald (Seattle, Washington), February 7, 1990.

The "comics aren't just for kids anymore" was an expression journalists liked to use a lot when describing our kind of comix. I first started reading that phrase in the mid-1970s. Today, I think it is pretty much taken for granted there is a huge bloc of Boomers who never let go of the medium and comic art has grown up right alongside us as we spin through the mortal coil.

Johnny Dodd, the author of this article, apparently went on to write for People.

The Secret Identity of Steve Willis / by Jon Brogger

A somewhat disjointed and typo-ridden rollercoaster of an interview with a journalism student at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington. I remember Jon was a fun guy to talk with. Originally published in Sounds v. 11, no. 2 (November 1996)

Random images, Pt. 5

At Oly Comix Fest, 2005. Taken by Allen Freeman.

Tim Corrigan

SW

Steve Charak

Rick Wayne

Assorted Thoughts on Insanity : Ephemeral Comix, 1980-1982, pages 151-165