Morty Comix # 2321

Morty Comix # 2321 found a home in an abandoned office foyer, Tumwater, Washington

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Favorite Movie Quotes: In a Lonely Place

"I came here because I wanted to say these things out loud and be laughed at. But you're not laughing."

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The Solomon's Seal new growth

Morty Comix # 2320

Morty Comix # 2320 was left in a public announcement display frame at the elevator entrance in a Tumwater, Washington parking garage.

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I'm sure this quarter embedded in a concrete base for some utility serving an office building has a story. Maybe I'll make one up.

Favorite Movie Quotes: I Shot Andy Warhol

"Here. Here, take this. The police are lookin' for me and want me. I shot Andy Warhol. Yeah, I had to. Yeah, he had too much control over my life."

Vote Bob X

Mike Honeycutt forwarded this "Boxing Day" interactive article from The Memphis Flyer featuring our old pal from the Newave days, Bob X!

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/boxing-day/Content?oid=3147237

Here's a chance to vote for something you can feel good about. How often does that happen?

Favorite Movie Quotes: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

"Have you ever solved me?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 49]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Hunted

"No more snares on wolves, guys."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Hunt For Red October

"Listen. I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar. And when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means that I keep my options open."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 47]

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A creative place to situate the hole in this LP of Nixon's speeches.

Morty Comix # 2319

 

Morty Comix # 2319 was left inside a tabletop advertisement for, I think, some kind of beer. This was in one of my favorite places to go eat, a Mexican cuisine restaurant in Elma, Washington.

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Last month I leased a Kia Soul with a "Cat Folder" button. Now I'm leasing a Chevy Impala with these buttons to eject cats from the car! Probably the sun roof opens and the seat boings upward due to a giant spring under the cushion. Weird.

The car has California plates, so maybe this is something they do down there but is as yet unknown to us behind-the-times Washingtonians hiding up here in our overcast corner.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Catch Me If You Can

"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse."

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James Abbott mural detail. He was much better at landscapes than people.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Hudsucker Proxy

"You know, for kids!"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 44]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The House of Yes

"Excuse me, I'm going to baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 19]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

"When you're poor, no one wants to know you." 

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 50]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

"Oh Watson, the needle!"

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hombre

"Oh, yeah. My momma taught me to remove my hat and my cigar in the presence of a lady. Whatever else I take off depends on how lucky I get."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hollywoodland

"When it comes to publicity, what's true or false doesn't really matter."

[Comic art enthusiasts might want to check out this movie. It concerns the controversy surrounding the death of actor George Reeves, who we Boomers remember as the man who portrayed Superman in the television series of the late 1950s]

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Charlie, Hettie, and Buster

Obscuro Comix Philosophy in Action

I got Charlie to pose with the next three Morty Comix I'll be distributing. It looks like # 2321 will have a little Charlie toothmark on the upper right hand corner as a result.

Morty Comix is moving into a new phase. Initially, starting nearly three decades ago, I sent a copy of an original art Morty Comix to each correspondent. I stopped in December 1999, but revived the series in 2010 with issue # 2196.  I guess this series could not co-exist with a George W. Bush presidency. No matter what surrealist image I could draw, there was no way I could outdo his real life absurdity. The man was political Dadaist.

In the pre-Internet days, we Newavers relied heavily on the USPS for our communication, and as a result a lot of Morty Comix were sent to my comix comrades. 

But those were the sunny slopes of yesterday. I still draw Morty Comix but the audience has changed. If this series made completist collectors go nuts in the past, it will really drive them over the edge now. Since Morty Comix # 2279 my tactics have changed.

I now just drop them at random in little secret pockets in the world at large here in the Pacific Northwest  where anyone might find one. Like little cartoon time bombs. Guerrilla comix I suppose you could call them. What happens to the art after I deposit it is beyond my control. So far, only one of these Mortyfied sites has responded back to Morty the Blog. The rest of them probably land in the recycling or trash can.

Can't explain why, but this method of comix art distribution really appeals to me. It seems to me this is almost the quintessential Obscuro Comix sort of activity. A true Obscuro would draw it and just throw it away, but I have enough ego to want some sort of audience, even if they discover it and ask, "What the Hell is this crap?" Well, especially if they ask, "What the Hell is this crap?" It seems so subversive and mischievous. Perhaps that is the appeal.

Plus I'm scanning and posting each one here, so at least the images are preserved even if the original gets deep-sixed, which I'm guessing most of them are.

I would love to know what Marcel Duchamp would make of this. I suspect he would've approved and made elaborate suggestions for how to fine tune this activity.