Favorite Movie Quotes: The War of the Worlds (1953)

"I'd say that gizmo is a machine from another planet."

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Violent Years

"So what?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 67]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Village

"Yes, I have risked! I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Vegas in Space

".. an oasis of glamor in a universe of mediocrity."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 66]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Usual Suspects

"A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself."

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Morty Comix # 2393

Morty Comix # 2393 was drawn inside of an empty matchbook, closed up, and left in an outdoor smoking area next to a Tumwater, Washington gas station/quick market very early this drizzly morn.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: U.S. Marshals

"If everybody walks away breathing, everybody wins."

Morty Comix # 2392

Morty Comix # 2392 was drawn in a deconstructed box that once held blank checkbooks. I then reassembled the carton and left it on an empty vegetable stand in McCleary, Washington.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Untouchables

Al Capone: "A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms, enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man, a man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork. Looks, throws, catches, hustles, part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field, what is he? You follow me? No one. Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? I'm going out there for myself. But I get nowhere unless the team wins."

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McCleary, Washington

Morty Comix # 2391

Morty Comix # 2391 was left in an unused plastic slot at the Tumwater Post Office

That big cardboard box on the counter is full of comix about to mailed to the Washington State University Library Comix Collection

The most recent additions to this shipment came from the Olympia Comics Festival!

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McCleary, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Unforgiven

"Deserves got nothin' to do with it."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 63]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Undefeated (1969)

"I know, sergeant! But if I can't have the whole dog, I don't want the tail!"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 36]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: King Kong (2005)

"It's not the principle of the thing, it's the money!"

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Charlie and Dreamer

UML Man

Notes for a character I was developing a year or two ago called UML Man.

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Olympia Farmers Market

Morty Comix # 2390

Morty Comix # 2390 was placed in a plastic shopping basket for an Olympia, Washington grocery store and then buried midway in a stack of baskets, to be discovered at some unknown date.

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Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Unbreakable

"Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Did you see a little Asian child with a blank expression sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb. Now one of us has made a gross error and wasted the other person's valuable time. This is an art gallery, my friend, and this is a piece of art."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 28]

A must-see film for anyone who enjoys comic art.

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FOR Lease

Tumwater, Washington

At Heaven's Gate, 1976

Several representatives of a couple known simply as "The Two" visited Olympia, Washington on Feb. 8, 1976 and spoke at the old Community Center. They were loudly heckled by a group of Jehovah's Witnesses but I was impressed how much they kept their calm demeanor as they made their pitch. The only part of their doctrine I really recall was that alien ships were about to come and take anyone who was willing to the next level before Earth was wiped clean. Naturally it was tempting to jump up and yell, "To Serve Man, it's a cookbook!!"

The next day I drew this self-portrait.

"The Two" were Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, who were not part of the presentation. They later named their group Heaven's Gate, and 39 members (including Applewhite) committed suicide in 1997, deliberately coinciding with the zenith of the comet Hale-Bopp. I sometimes wonder how many of those speakers I saw in 1976 were among those unfortunate 39 followers.