The Diogenes Club
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
To Our Comrades Back East
We realize summer has been sort of a bummer for you guys. First, horrible heat, then an earthquake, and now a hurricane.
All we have to complain about in terms of Mother Nature out here in the coastal Pacific Northwest this season is the unusual lack of real summer this year, since we've had mostly rain and overcast most of the time. Pretty mild in comparison to your trials.
Sarah and I have you in our thoughts.
All we have to complain about in terms of Mother Nature out here in the coastal Pacific Northwest this season is the unusual lack of real summer this year, since we've had mostly rain and overcast most of the time. Pretty mild in comparison to your trials.
Sarah and I have you in our thoughts.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Everyday Manners for 4-H Boys and Girls
There are valuable lessons here for everyone.
The Oklahoma Extension Service (I originally thought this was from Wyoming-- my mistake) published this many decades ago. It inspired me. I lifted the drawings for my greatest life-changing creative endeavor, Mr. Crawford Raises Herfords, Too.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Dust Settles
This blog is now a year old, and it seems a fitting time to change gears. The frenetic pace at which I have been scanning and posting primary documents of the Newave Comix era as well as my own work will be slowing down.
I want to start getting back in the comix creation game. Thanks to this blog the bulk of my old printed work has been caught up to this online technology, so now I feel reset with this modern a-gogo world and ready to make comix again.
Besides, I still owe art to Maximum Traffic and Dan W. Taylor, and getting the next Morty the Blog jam together.
It has been a singular experience reacquainting myself with all the works that have been posted here in the last year. This blog is only possible because of the efforts of the Fabulous Sarah, who set it up and made it run. Thank you Sarah!
I'll still try to post at least a photo every day, and continue to scan and share odd drawings, articles, etc. as I find them. I'm not stopping, I'm just going to walk instead of run.
I want to start getting back in the comix creation game. Thanks to this blog the bulk of my old printed work has been caught up to this online technology, so now I feel reset with this modern a-gogo world and ready to make comix again.
Besides, I still owe art to Maximum Traffic and Dan W. Taylor, and getting the next Morty the Blog jam together.
It has been a singular experience reacquainting myself with all the works that have been posted here in the last year. This blog is only possible because of the efforts of the Fabulous Sarah, who set it up and made it run. Thank you Sarah!
I'll still try to post at least a photo every day, and continue to scan and share odd drawings, articles, etc. as I find them. I'm not stopping, I'm just going to walk instead of run.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
1968: RFK vs. Nixon
I ran across this political cartoon I drew in, I'm guessing, April 1968. Robert Kennedy throws away a LBJ voodoo doll as he races Nixon to the Capitol. The American eagle looks wary while Gene McCarthy has dug a hole to stop RFK.
Johnson had dropped out of the race in March 1968, Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. I'm not sure why LBJ makes that 3rd Party reference since by April Gov. George Wallace of Alabama had already announced he was running under the American Independent Party banner.
The drawing is too big to scan in one swoop. But here it is in pieces.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Relics of Rebellion / by Joe Bageant
An article from the Daily News (Pullman, Washington), August 12-13, 1989.
I never met Laila Vejzovic in person, she arrived at the Washington State University Library after I left, but we corresponded and talked on the phone a few times. I was pleased she was so supportive of comix in the library and her backing helped the collection grow and become secure. I love the fact she is holding a copy of Max Haynes' Dog Slobber. A copy of The Almost Complete Collected Morty Comix is on the table.
Interview from somewhere
Bruce Chrislip interviewed me shortly after I ceased editing City Limits Gazette. I'm not sure where this appeared, perhaps in Lead Balloons.
Cartoonists Northwest February 15, 1991
A broadside announcing my speaking engagement with the Seattle-based Cartoonists Northwest. But hey, what's with "We're a bit weird as well."? Are they suggesting I am "weird"? Obviously misconceptions like this have forced me to defend myself with documentary proof I am quite, quite normal.
Telemark Cross-Country Ski School
The illustrations were provided ca. 1988-1989 for my friend Doug, the same real-life character who appeared in the comic How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose.
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