Morty Comix # 2681

Morty Comix #2681 was folded and left in the coin return slot of the only remaining pay phone booth in McCleary, Washington. Problem is, this phone doesn't work. So if you are stranded here, and if you don't have a cell phone-- you are trapped in The Twilight Zone!

Morty Comix # 2644

Morty Comix # 2644 was left in a dead phone booth at a long dead grocery/gas mart in Satsop, Washington, a town in danger of becoming extinct, along with several other villages and municipalities in eastern Grays Harbor County, including my town, McCleary.

A local asked me what I was doing and I said I was recording places soon to be gone. Out here everyone wants to know your family connection, and I told him I was no connection to the well known dairy family around here with the same surname. My Willis family relatives migrated to Grays Harbor and Pacific counties early in the 20th century and many of them engaged in a variety of nefarious activities. I am the sole surnamed Willis left from my branch still living in either county. So I guess I should photograph myself to fit in with the rest of the subjects I capture.

Morty Comix # 2629

Morty Comix # 2629 was folded and placed in a groady phone booth next the decaying Art Deco Greyhound Bus station in Olympia, Washington.

Morty Comix # 2549

Morty Comix # 2549 was drawn on a piece of cardboard. Buster, Hettie and Dreamer are demonstrating the size of this comic relative to a cat. They need to earn their keep somehow around here.

This comic was left in a rare actual working phone booth in Tumwater, Washington. Between the time I took these photos and created this post, the comic was already gone. It probably landed in that garbage can next to the booth.

The last photo was taken from across the street, at a dead phone booth, the same one where I deposited Morty Comix # 2532. That particular issue apparently blew out of the booth in the wind and got rained on. Waaay in the background you can see the working phone booth where I left Morty Comix # 2549.

Morty Comix # 2541

Morty Comix # 2541 was left in a place that is quickly becoming a vanishing site these days, a phone booth with a real telephone that still has a dial tone. This booth is in the historic town of Castle Rock, Washington.

Castle Rock is nice little town worth visiting. I like the walk they built along the Cowlitz River with the historical signs.

Morty Comix # 2533

OK, so I check to see if Morty Comix # 2527 is where I left it. Sometimes these Morty Comix sit for months before anyone finds them. The spot is at a phone booth in a gas station/minimart in Tumwater, Washington. Actually various places on this retail space have served as a depository for Morty Comix for awhile. I think I have left at least half a dozen in this general vicinity in the last year or so.

But wait, I see an interloper.

What should I find at the place where I left Morty Comix # 2527 but a Jack T. Chick weirdo minicomic! This one is called The Contract! and it is the second Chick publication I have found on this retail space this week. How deliciously bizarre.

So is this how the game is played? Two anonymous comix droppers in a turf war? One Obscuro the other Fanatically Religious? Then so be it. I accept the challenge with a sense of fun. It so happens I like Chick publications (for reasons the publisher doesn't intend, I'm sure) and send all I find to the Washington State University Comix Collection.

Morty Comix # 2533 has taken the game up a notch as I replaced the Chick comic with my own work at the phone booth the next morning. Perhaps this is just a brief conflict. Or perhaps not.

Morty Comix # 2532

Morty Comix # 2532 was drawn on a piece of cardboard that had once been part of a container for a cat scratching pad. It was deposited in yet another abandoned telephone booth.

Tumwater, Washington.

Morty Comix # 2529

Morty Comix # 2529 was slipped behind a poster in a defunct phone booth in the back hallway of a restaurant in Montesano, Washington. Note the surveillance camera in the final photo. I am sure that many of my adventures in distributing Morty Comix have been recorded by these grainy little devils.

Morty Comix # 2527

Morty Comix # 2527 found a home in a rare spot-- a working phone booth, complete with an intact phone book! Tumwater, Washington.

Morty Comix # 2465

Morty Comix # 2465 was left in a phone booth of an unusual design, Westside of Olympia, Washington.