Olympia Comics Festival 2019

As you can see my little 20th century Toyota Corolla was filled with so many Morty Comix that I consider it a major victory that I made it to Olympia without being pulled over. Driving on the back streets helped.

Those white bags in the center, next to Max Clotfelter, was my table. In all between the expo portion and handing them out at the wedding, I gave away about 250 Morty Comix.

With this project finished I will be moving on to to truly diabolical art scheme, also using Morty Comix. 

I'll keep this blog up for another week or two, then it returns to hibernation where only a few trivia hunters in the Diogenes Club come to occasionally visit. If you are comix historian and still want to have access to this blog let me know and that can be arranged.

Dog Walk Dog 2

I drew a page for the just published anthology, Dog Walk Dog 2, and in the course of doing so realized how rusty I am at drawing stories.

The comic includes work by August Lipp, Jason T. Miles, Ben Horak, Patrick Keck, Karissa Sakumoto, Marc Palm, Max Clotfelter, Tom Van Deusen, Kelly Froh, and Aidan Fitzgerald.

Tom Van Deusen is the editor and publisher. I believe he is selling this for 5 bucks, ppd.

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 8

Beautiful work by http://theseframesarehidingplaces.com/

Flying Dodo Publications

Max Clotfelter, Kelly Froh

The most photogenic pair in the Fest!

Darkslinger Comics

Students from Madison Middle School had a table with comix and fiction. I was so happy to see this. The torch of creativity is kept alive and these kids are lucky to have such visionary teachers.

Drawing comix helped keep me sane as I was growing up (no wisecracks, please) and the adults who encouraged me to continue this activity as part of my personal development were essential in my evolution as an artist. It was all quite informal in those prehistoric times, even in college. There was no such thing as classes in cartooning.

My departed friend Steve Charak would've been all over this if he was still alive, but it has only been in very recent history comix have become an accepted part of academia, on any level.


So I salute Madison!  What a great way to combine drawing and writing education.

And, I went to grade school at Roosevelt, so I feel an Eastside kinship there.

http://newlevant.tumblr.com/

The photo of John Doe, her neighbor in orange, was one of several that unfortunately didn't turn out

Chelsea Baker at the Timberland Regional Library table

http://www.artbureau.org/

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 7

I love this concept of providing an improv performance comic

http://maxkarlkey.com/

http://www.stumptownunderground.com/

 

Sean Christensen

 Max Clotfelter

Hamburger House

Olympia Comics Festival 2011 Report, Pt. 6

Olympia Comics Festival 2011 Report, Pt. 3

Jim Blanchard

I first met Jim at the launch party for the Newave! book in Seattle early last year


Rapt in Fear


Max Clotfelter and Kelly Froh
Max and I had traded comix via *gasp!* snail mail a few months back, and I enjoyed meeting him in person at last. Kelly and I had met at the Newave! launch party last year. Two artists I most definitely want to keep track of. Hopefully we'll have other opportunities to get together.


Eroyn Franklin with Martine Alicia and
Neoglyphic Media


S. Mann's Eye Bot
I bet she was a good pupil in art school

Chelsea Baker's table, but she was so busy making the exhibit area run smoothly that it was rare to catch her here

There must've been a disturbance in The Force when I snapped this phone photo of
Jordan M. Dalton of Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is technically in Washington State, but is right across the Columbia River and considered a suburb of, yes, you guessed it, Portland! I'm at a loss to explain it, but I think this fact has something to do with the photo oddity.

The Art Bureau


That seated gentleman with the serene smile is
Aron Nels Steinke
His work is wonderful!