Retreads 12

1st edition, November 2005, 25 copies, white cover, regular digest size.

Trivia:

Page 3: Hey, you draw cartoons! Draw a cartoon for our boss who is leaving. And make it look like Calvin and Hobbes. We need it in 45 minutes.

Page 13: The Mona Lisa rubber stamp was made by Kevin Wildermuth.

Page 17: It appears Maximum Traffic took a Morty Comix drawing and enhanced it into a minicomic cover. He also provided the caption for the white buffalo images I sent him.

Page 20, panel 1: A quote from Bob Dole's speech at the 1996 Republican Convention. The thing I always liked about Dole is that he was a mean-spirited, cranky old S.O.B. who always mentioned himself in the third person. And winning new voters to his base was apparently not important to him as he insulted major chunks of the American demographic with obvious glee. I particularly enjoyed watching Dole and Steve Forbes during the 1996 primary season debates, quite the comedy team.

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Olympia Comics Festival 2011 Website

Looks like the folks at the Danger Room in Olympia, Washington have retooled the Olympia Comics Festival website.

Also they have named a date: May 21st, 2011, and already have a special guest lined up: Megan Kelso.

Check it out at: http://olympiacomicsfestival.org/

2/19 Update: Looks like it was Chelsea who has updated the site! Nice work!

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Hamster TV

Retreads 11

1st edition, November 2005, 25 copies, white cover, regular digest size.

Trivia:

Page 4: Nancy and Steve were both writers. It just hit me that I drew book covers for both of them. I have already posted Steve's. Nancy's book cover is soon to come.

Page 5: I don't ski. However I can pose with the gear for a photo shoot and if my expression is suicidal enough I can look convincing.

Page 8: In addition to talking me into drawing posters for his plays, my brother Bryan asked me to draw this ad for his dog running service when he lived in New York.

Page 10: Drawn during a time when several of those electronic evangelicals were exposed in various scandals for being the hypocritical con artists they are.

Pages 13-22: The remainder of the East County Comix strips I posted here in the Larry of McCleary and Other Characters book.

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Woke up to snow
Time to head for the Joe

Retreads 10

1st edition, November 2005, 25 copies, white cover, regular digest size.

Trivia:

Page 6: I'm told I fell down some stairs when I was a small child in Spokane. This is a frequent dream image for me.

Page 12-13: This supposedly really happened to the brother of a friend of mine.

Page 18-19: Hey, you draw cartoons! Draw some posters for us! It'll only take a minute!

Page 20: A real knee-slapper in academic philosophy departments. I think the original art is still around here somewhere, but the felt tip is fading fast.

Page 21: The cataloger cartoon has made the rounds since it was originally published in PNLA Quarterly. I have seen it taped up on cubicle walls of catalogers from Ocean Shores, Washington to some little town in southeast Ohio. That copy of AACR2 is soon to be replaced by a new set of rules called RDA. We librarians love our acronyms.

Page 22-23: Two drawings of Wayno's character, Howie.

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Retreads 9

1st edition, November 2005, 25 copies, white cover, regular digest size.

Trivia:

Pages 1-3: Yes, I really did interview J.P. Patches.

Pages 7-11: It is safe to say I did not enjoy the graduate school experience. But then again, I wasn't supposed to. The first panel portrays Lee Norton (who, for reasons I don't want to even begin to guess at, wore a duck decoy on her cranium once) interviewing Morty for an article entitled "Morty Dog, Come Home." This was originally in the Cooper Point Journal and reprinted in Retreads 4.

Pages 23-24: This particular teacher died last Fall at the age of 101. She was a sweetie. I hated algebra and used to draw cartoons on the margins. She would return my papers with the grade: "Math - D, Art -A." As you can see, I attended a pretty wild junior high during the Vietnam War era.

This is the only issue of Retreads still available at Poopsheet.

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Charlie's shadow

City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 2

The second installment of John Porcellino's history of City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette was posted today.

This one features an interview with one of my favorite people in the Land of Obscuro Comix, the amazing Maximum Traffic/Buzz Buzzizyk/Borpo Deets.

Nice work, John! Glad to see someone documenting Max's significant contribution in broadening our understanding of what comic art can be.