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Monticello Hotel, Longview, Washington

Olympia Comics Festival is Coming!

Whiteboard by (I hope have this right) Avery in the Danger Room advertising the Olympia Comics Festival! I have been given the assignment and honor of being the MC at the Shannon Wheeler discussion at 2 pm.

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Part of a mural series by Joe Knowles in the Monticello Hotel, Longview, Washington.

The first portrait portrays that one-eyed genocidal pirate, Robert Gray.

The man with the long white hair is Dr. John McLoughlin, an important figure in Washington State history on many levels. Oregon likes to claim the Doc (they even have a statue of him in Salem), but he really belongs to us Washingtonians.

Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 13

Although I was granted administrator power on the official Mini-Comics day website, when it comes to employing graphics on WordPress I am really inept. Thanks to Steven Stwalley for telling the McCleary story on that venue.

Another obscure link to our corner of the world up here in the Great Pacific Northwest was provided by Jim Gill, who led us to Colin Upton's effort on Mini-Comics Day.

The cover here is from Jim's Headgear, a truly impressive piece of work created in a short time with no pencils. And he modestly and quietly made this thing while visiting and telling stories in a casual manner. A cartoonist class act.

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Centralia, Washington

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Morty Comix # 2370 was left in a phoneless phone booth at the Monticello Hotel

Longview, Washington

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Centralia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Sneakers

"There's a war out there, old friend, a world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets, it's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It's all about the information."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 66]

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Memorial Day

Tumwater, Washington

Olympia Comics Festival 2012

The Oly Comics Fest is around the corner! This year I'll have the honor of conducting a discussion with the amazing Shannon Wheeler at 2 pm.

I met Shannon at a past Oly Comics Fest, and am looking forward to hearing his story in much more detail. Hope some of you Morty the Blog readers can make it.

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Morty Comix # 2369

Morty Comix # 2369 was drawn on the back of some legal-size chart paper. I taped it under a very public surface in McCleary, Washington. Performing this act took considerable stealth. When I took this photo I was flat on my back and felt very rushed, hence the unfocused phone photo. I don't anticipate this Morty Comix being discovered real soon, but, who knows?

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Sleepy Hollow

"Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 37]

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Morty Comix # 2368 was drawn on sort of a thin parchment paper and was tacked on the outside bulletin board of a mini-mart in McCleary, Washington

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Sixth Sense

"I never told you, but you sound a little like Dr. Seuss when you're drunk." 

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 73]

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Morty Comix # 2367

Morty Comix # 2367 was placed in a brochure case for tourists at an Olympia, Washington vehicle rental agency

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 12

When I went to the Post Office to take down the poster now that the event is over, I see my poster-ripper-upper friend was back at work.

Apparently a "Free speech for me but not for thee" Puritan type. Or just someone with a lot of unresolved anger.

Weird.

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 11

By "Ali Foster and Stinky McFartomatic"

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 10

The Floating Head of Humptulips was a jam on Mini-Comics Day by Frank Young, Jim Gill,  Paul Tumey and Morty the Dog. The "occupency" sign (by Paul?) is a real-life typo from a public notice posted by the City of McCleary in the Community Center. Yes, Grays Harbor County is indeed in the Third World, where literacy is not first nature and dictionaries gather dust. It is even evident on street signs and newspaper headlines. On the public health index and unemployment, this county ranks dead last out of 39 counties in Washington.

Still, I love Grays Harbor County. This place is one of the last islands of the old Washington State, the real Washington we rural Boomer natives knew as we were growing up. Sasquatch is safe out here. We can still scratch where it itches. Wild Russian boars run amok.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Camille

"Too much, and not enough!"