Morty the Dog: Librarianship

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Morty Comix # 2510

Morty Comix # 2510 was a difficult one to place.

It really started in 2007 in Washington, DC. I was attending a librarian conference there that year. I'm the one in the middle. The cats are Baker and Taylor, mascots for a book distributor.

In the bag of conference swag I collected at that event, this plastic sheet of Presidents of the United States was included.

So now, several years later, this Prez gallery will help me select a new home for this issue of Morty Comix. I placed it on the floor at the end of the hallway in front of a bulletin board.

Above the whole scene is a painting by my Aunt Pat Pearson.

Then I brought out my bowl of spare pennies. My daughter made this bowl long ago when she was in school.

I tossed the pennies at the bulletin until one of them bounced off and landed on the presidential visages.

It didn't take long.

Jackson, Van Buren, Harding, and Coolidge

I'm looking for counties. Since there is no such place as Coolidge County in the USA I was able to disqualify Silent Cal. So before rolling the dice I assigned numbers: Jackson 2, Van Buren 3, Harding 4. Within a few rolls Harding was the winner.

There are two Harding counties in the US, but only one is named after the President. Harding County, New Mexico has a population of less than 700. I wanted to find an address in the ghost town of Rosebud, given the fact I was co-author of the role playing mystery game, Riddle at Rosebud, which was set in New Mexico, but alas, ghosts don't have mailing addresses. At the time I cooked up that title I had no idea there really was a place once called Rosebud in the Land of Enchantment.

So what I settled on was sending the comic to a bar in Mosquero, the county seat.

And I must say I find it hard to believe Warren Harding actually has a county named after him. Incredible.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Buttons - Librarianship - 2012

Federal Depository Library

GPO

GPO’s Superintendent of Documents and Assistant Public Printer brought a bunch of these to a recent meeting I attended.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Morty Comix # 2485

Morty Comix # 2485 was left as a bookmark in a tome that is part of the Law Library collection, Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington

Monday, December 17, 2012

Phone photo 2137

Husky mascot statue

University of Washington

I'm an alum (MLS, '82)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Morty Comix # 2478

Morty Comix # 2478 is being sent to Maximum Traffic in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Here's the story: Back in the 1980s and the pre-Internet 1990s I was right on top of my postal mail. The US Postal Service was my lifeline to my comix comrades. But that was then.

Today I check my PO box infrequently, and even then I just pile up the mail and look at it once a week. Sometimes I throw it in a stack and don't get to it for months.

On this rainy weekend I started excavating through my studio and found several long forgotten documents dating back to the Stone Age. This included a SASE from one of my all time favorite artists, Maximum Traffic.

So, here's to you, Max. My buddy Charlie helped me stuff the envelope.

This issue of Morty Comix is a bit unusual. Many of the 5 x 3 in. versions are made of old discarded Gaylord circulation cards with WLN labels, originating from South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington.

But a few of them, like Morty Comix # 2478, are drawn on the reverse of discarded shelflist cards that were used as a springboard for recataloging, also from the WLN era.

I miss WLN. It was a great organization and the contribution to the field of librarianship in the Pacific Northwest has not been matched since their demise over a decade ago.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Favorite Movie Quotes: City of Angels

A library user in 1998 navigating through the online catalog: "What happened to the cards? You could touch the cards!"

And really, believe me, that was the most exciting line in this bit of cinema art.