Logo by Maximum Traffic, Steve Lafler on hobbyism, Bil Keane Watch with Maximum Traffic and Mark Campos, Hank Arakelian profile, Lynn Hansen on Kennedy Guide pt. 2, special visual Bil Keane Watch vision quest by Max. Traffic.
The Diogenes Club
Friday, July 22, 2011
City Limits Gazette # Purple bowling shoes on a spongy miniature golf course (Aug. 1992)
Logo by Maximum Traffic, Steve Lafler on hobbyism, Bil Keane Watch with Maximum Traffic and Mark Campos, Hank Arakelian profile, Lynn Hansen on Kennedy Guide pt. 2, special visual Bil Keane Watch vision quest by Max. Traffic.
Thank You Bryan!
My brother Bryan finished a project today, completing a hallway shelf for my collection of VHS videos and DVD movies. He did a beautiful job and it is the first time I'm able to access the whole library in one place. This is a big deal.
I reviewed many of these on OlyBlog in my Cheaper by the Dozen series.
Our Father, may he rest in peace, was a jack of all trades including being a decent carpenter. I think Bryan inherited the carpenter gene as well as the how things work gene.
Anyway, here's a big public Thank You to my brother, Bryan, for making a big difference here at Casa Morty in McCleary.
City Limits Gazette # Panda mouth wash (July 1992)
Logo by S. Minstrel, Joe Schnide climbs on board, Chad Woody reports on 1992 Chicago Comic Convention, Troy Hickman on the Fred question, Kevin Brockschmidt gets hitched, Mary Longo on the hobbyism, Mark Campos presents a very special Bil Keane Watch, Lynn Hansen visits McCleary and drops off comix reviews and a list of titles he thinks Kennedy missed.
On the final point, Dogtown Zoo was indeed too late to fit into Jay's Guide. In fact, Jay went to some trouble to squeeze in my first two issues of Cranium Frenzy before his deadline.
Phone photo 571
And it really really hurts when the lease is up and they have to take the tattoo back.
Meet the Working-Class Cartoonist: Bob Vojtko
Richard Krauss gave me the heads up on this Saturday Evening Post profile of our pal, Bob Vojtko!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Phone photo 570
Summit Lake area, Thurston County, WashingtonThis innocent little creek became a raging river a few winters ago, destroying or severely wrecking every building in it's path and closed a major state freeway route for several days.
The plants in the foreground are called horsetails
Who Killed Joe Sumrall?
I recently posted an issue of CLG that had a contemporary mention of the murder of our cartoonist colleague Joe Sumrall in 1992. And it reminded me how bothered I still am that the case has never been solved.
Why does this particular instance get to me when there so many others out there also unsolved? Perhaps because I felt a bit of a kinship from afar with him as a fellow comic artist. He also seemed to not be entirely taken with the whole J.Z. Knight/Ramtha nonsense, which I am convinced was inspired by an aspect of Hitchcock's Family Plot.
The Olympia area experienced another cartoonist homicide with the killing of David George in 2003. But that case was more or less settled.
Joe Sumrall's killer has never been identified so far as I know. This is a cold case worth warming up. We have not forgotten you, Joe.
Update: An interesting YouTube finding by Sarah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
City Limits Gazette # Peeling the toaster (July 1992)
Logo by S. Minstrel, Kel Crum weighs in on Fred, Xeric Foundation is created, Luciano revisited or RIP Newave 1975-1985, Bil Keane Watch with Jeffrey Kipper, Bruce Sweeney's Underground Station with logo by Jerry Riddle, CLG reader profile of Wayno, Maximum Traffic and Clay Geerdes on the hobby question, bad cover versions of When I'm Sixty Four, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Why Don't We Do It in the Road, Wild Honey Pie, With a Little Help From My Friends, The Word, Yellow Submarine, Yer Blues, Yesterday.
Also a much beloved coffee stained coaster by Wayno I have been using for nearly two decades on my studio desk.
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