The Weekly Volcano Interviews Frank Hussey

Alec Clayton of The Weekly Volcano interviewed Frank Hussey of Olympia's Danger Room in preparation for the TESC 40th anniversary cartoonists panel. The piece is available online!

I had a great time at the event! After the panel discussion Matt and I were filmed together outside by Evergreen staff talking about TESC. Not sure when or where that will eventually surface. I understand the panel discussion was recorded as well.

40th Anniversary Reunion at Evergreen

I took part in the program Animation, Comics and Graphic Novels: A Great Evergreen Tradition as part of the 40th anniversary of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. On my way there I was saddened to see the Handy Pantry, or the "H.P.," a place we used to go to on frequent beer runs back in the 1970s, apparently in a state of stasis.

 The TESC Steam Plant. Sometimes we would sneak past the guy in the glass office and gain entry into the maze of steam tunnels that honeycomb the campus.

 Dorm A. In 1974 Matt Groening lived in the room with the window on the 2nd floor far left. The next window was my room. He was the first person I met on my first day at Evergreen.

 This is the spot where an incident I relate in Evergroove Trivia Pt. 15 took place.

 One time Lynda Barry and I were walking together and at this point she grabbed me and made me hide with her around a corner while a conceptual artist walked by. "That man hates art!" she trembled. The actual corner has since been obliterated by building expansion.

 A lecture hall where one of our classmates in Shakespeare and the Age of Elizabeth vaulted over several rows of seats to beat up someone he didn't like in 1979.

 Ron Austin of Cartoonists Northwest and son Liam.

 Setting up

 

 With Tommy Thompson

 Tommy Thompson, Craig Bartlett, Matt Groening, Megan Kelso, Drew Christie

 Evergreen faculty Ruth Hayes, who will moderate, joins the group

 Showtime begins

The geoduck, Evergreen's mascot

Evergroove 1973

In preparation for the big 40th birthday event at The Evergreen State College I ran across this old bulletin for 1973-1974. I selected certain pages here to give you an idea of the look and style the College was trying to project at the time. The Tim Girvin calligraphy was a strong part of TESC's visual image for many years.

 Sid White

The Campus Activities Building (CAB) in the background. The windows in the top right were for the room that served as HQ for The Cooper Point Journal in the mid-1970s, a time when the first real wave of cartoonists emerged at Evergroove.

 Libbie Beck