Postcard - Aberdeen, Washington

"This telephoto view from Belaire Hill shows the Downtown Shopping Center and on the left the Modern New Bridge spanning the Chehalis River."

To help date this, the "Modern New Bridge" was built in 1955.

Somewhere in about the very middle of this postcard stood Eaton's Bookstall, where I bought most of my underground comix 40+ years ago and also met cartoonist John Workman before he moved to New York City. Eaton's was also one of the few places where you could buy my first pre-Newave comic, Gimmie Comics # 1. The building where Eaton's stood is long gone.

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.