Morty the Dog

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 6

The gang at Sparkplug are so energetic I could not get anyone in focus.

I am guaranteed the greatest comix conversations at Profanity Hill, complete with background knowledge on Newave Comix, The Evergroove State College cartoonist history, and the Seattle scene. Always a welcome sight in Olympia.

Intruder and Tom Van Deusen

The Intruder is carrying on the Seattle comix tabloid tradition of the Seattle Simpleton of the 1970s, and the Seattle Star of the 1980s.

http://gnartoons.blogspot.com/

Ron Austin and Louise are filmmakers interested in Pacific Northwest cartoonists. Ron and I have spent the last three weekends in mutual comix activities: The Evergreen 40th, Mini-Comics Day, and now this. Meanwhile, my lawn has gone crazy!

Two tables assigned to Jonathan Chaffin, J. Scott, 41st Johnson, Breena Wiederhoeft, Fiona Avocado, and Aaron Brassea.

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 5

How can you not love the Olympia Comics Collective? Why, I bet they'd even let me join if I wanted to, and I am a professional non-joiner. I like their creative energy.

http://tugboatpress.com/

It was nice to meet Charlie Daugherty again. He's a fellow Evergroove alum. Keep your eye on this guy.

Eight and Half by Eleven Comics

With the advent of Project ELF, having an Eight and Half by Fourteen Comics would be very expensive

http://www.studiojfish.com/

http://blog.family-style.com/

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, Pt. 4

TFR Industries

Unfortunately, not all my phone photos survived. For some reason, my shot of the only other Old Guy with any sort of history in this genre at the event, Wade Busby, failed to emerge. But you can see his elbow here.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MoniqueIsWeird

Comics by Chelsea Baker. However, that nice unidentified person behind the books is not Chelsea.

Rzie Labs

Nathan Wirtz

http://olycartoonists.wordpress.com/meet-the-toonists/

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 3

What comix gathering wouldn't be complete without someone walking around in a giant cartoon suit based a character invented by someone I knew in the distant past?

My Favorite Portland Troublemakers!

http://turbooverdrive.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Goodyear/155112131176562

http://www.kinokogallery.com/

http://www.ebbits.net/

http://www.markmonlux.blogspot.com/

http://www.ducknbeaver.com/

I am guessing this name comes from the two mascots for Oregon's big two college sports teams.

Neoglyphic Media

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 2

Two SWs, Shannon Wheeler and Steve Willis

I like this gig where the Danger Room guys assign me the task of interviewing great cartoonists at the Olympia Comics Festival. I used to interview and document cartoonists a lot during my City Limits Gazette days and didn't realize how much I missed that aspect of mixing librarianship with comix until the last couple years when I got roped into helping out in Oly.

This was probably one of the most seamless interviews in my experience-- mostly due to Shannon's impressive self-awareness as an artist and his willingness to speak frankly. I didn't feel like I had to pull nails out of this guy. He is a very modest, likeable, thoughtful and talented artist with a good stage presence. We really clipped along and covered a lot of ground in short time. Shannon is a cartoonist who has gone through a fascinating evolution in the last couple decades and is well worth following.

[Photo taken by Casey Bruce]

Olympia Comics Festival 2012, pt. 1

The 2012 Olympia Comics Festival, the 11th year this event has taken place, was dedicated to our comrade Dylan Williams.

I didn't catch the stageshow portion this year, but I made it to the Olympia Community Center in time to get a shot of the set-up. In the foreground is librarian Kelsey Smith, from Timberland Regional Library. She is a real champion of our art form and deserves some kind of medal for her efforts to promote comic art and self-publishing as a method for expression for people (children and adults alike) who like to draw and write.

http://www.withsprinkles.org/

http://www.cupofstars.com/

http://www.snakebombcomix.com/

Fran Victor attempts to find a quiet place to collate DVD covers

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Favorite Movie Quotes: Come and Take It Day

"Revenge-- how unBuddhist of me."

One of the main characters is a cartoonist, and several important scenes take place in a library

Phone photo 1595

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Candidate

"Marvin, what do we do now?"

Mentioned in Evergroove Trivia pt. 17 on OlyBlog

Phone photo 1594

Changing of the guard. Now it is Charlie and Buster keeping watch.

Morty Comix # 2376

Morty Comix # 2376 was slipped under a straw and napkin dispenser at an Olympia region McDonald's

Friday, June 1, 2012

Phone photo 1593

The boys stand guard. I love the way these six-year-old siblings, Charlie and Dreamer, move in tandem. Both of these fine gentlemen were half-feral half-grown kittens when discovered at Ocean Shores, Washington. There were several more from their litter out there, probably dumped, but these two made it to the civilized megaopolis of McCleary.