South Puget Sound Community College art instructor Carol Hannum organized a series of exhibits which were displayed in the college library in 1999. She asked me to prepare one for the July 5-August 12 slot. At the time I was employed by SPSCC as a librarian and member of the faculty.
I still have the narrative cards, but the images themselves have long since been given away. The exhibit consisted of 7 pieces. One of them was a
Woofer the Psychic Dog t-shirt. The others were:
The Tall Elf, As I Recall The 'Sixties, various library-oriented comix,
Morty Prima Facie, a selection from
The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke, and
Write-In Morty for McCleary Mayor.
The copies of comix were glued to foamboard, and each board had a border with covers of minicomix and other art. Last I knew those boards were distributed to my brother, to the back room of a local jewelry store, and to a juvenile correctional facility south of here.
It was Carol's choice to call me a "Renegade Cartoonist." The term seems redundant to me, since most good cartoonists are renegades in one form or another anyway.
At the same time this event was taking place, just four miles away The Evergreen State College was displaying a TESC Alumni Authors Exhibit, which included covers of
As I Recall the 'Sixties, Cranium Frenzy # 1, The Tall Elf, Dante's Coat, as well as "The Four States of Being," the
Outside In SW/Morty portrait, the earliest known drawing of Morty the Dog, and others. I believe this is the only time where my work was in two exhibits in the same town at the same time!
