Morty Comix # 2497 needed to be sent somewhere out of the routine, and at random. So here's what I did.
I took a long piece of wood out of the carport and set it up as a ramp in my living room.
Then I went back to the studio and blew dust off my old World Book Encyclopedias.
This is the 1961 set. I purchased these for 4 bucks at a garage sale here in McCleary about 20 years ago, I think.
Since I rarely go in my studio, Charlie timidly tried to enter the room-- a place he knows he isn't supposed to be.
Then I located an old toy car of mine, dating back to the late 1950s. A rare survivor of our 1965 house fire. I used this car as a model for Morty the Dog's vehicle in a few pages of
Cranium Frenzy # 1 (1981)
The encyclopedias were arranged at the bottom of the ramp according to the thickness of the volume so all together they sloped down.
I let go of the car at the top of the ramp.
In an exciting moment it raced down, and came to rest on four different volumes.
And those volumes were H, J-K, L, and Q-R. That means Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Rhode Island.
So I suspended the ramp above the floor a few inches and placed the four volumes underneath. Then I situated wooden blocks on the top, two above each book.
The contraption was seasoned with catnip. Yes, I was going to enlist the help of the Fabs.
Dreamer was first, and actually he quickly chose the winner by knocking the blocks on one of the tomes right away.
Then Buster had to have a turn, but the blocks he knocked over missed all books.
Charlie came over and just enjoyed the catnip.
Hettie, meanwhile, just watched the whole exercise, regarding it as a silly waste of time. In many ways she is the smartest one in this house.
The winner was Rhode Island!
Rhode Island is our 13th state. So I picked the 13th largest city there, North Kingstown. In looking at a map I liked the sound of Spink St., but had to settle for a nearby address I could verify, which turned out to be a bank on a street with a much more boring name. So I am sending this
Morty Comix to that bank, care of the "Art Director."
This February will mark the 30th anniversary of
Morty Comix. I have sent them all over the world. But this might be the first time one has landed in Rhode Island.
