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Morty Comix # 2405

Morty Comix # 2405 was tucked into a bus stop in Tumwater, Washington

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A dream caught in midstream by economic reality and left as a rusting monument

Tumwater, Washington

Washington, My Home, Wherever I May Roam

While the rest of the country bakes those of us in Grays Harbor County, Washington are still getting soaked with rain. It is almost 9 o'clock here, still light, and the rain is coming down steady. Just took this photo a few minutes ago of the wet sky framed by my elm and black walnut trees.

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Morty Comix # 2404

Morty Comix # 2404 was drawn on a notepad given to me as an incentive to subscribe to the magazine Golf Digest, which is very strange since I have never played golf and have no desire to learn. In fact, the whole world of sports strikes me as incredibly and expensively absurd, but I recognize I am very much in the minority view here in America and realize millions find joy and meaning in this activity. This is a major part of the human experience most people find very important but has somehow escaped me. I just don't get it. But I'm OK with being a freak in this regard.

Sports have appeared in my comix. In my book Dog of Dawn Dog of Dusk I highlighted the historical sport of Dog Butting, introduced to me by my friend Bob Richart, who was featured in an altered way as a character in the story. Also in State of Beings # 5 I proposed my new baseball team, the Stationary Pus-Filled Pancakes.

Sarah introduced me to Robin Williams' great take on golf a few years ago. The fact I have a healthy dose of Scottish blood made me laugh even harder.

Page 2-3 of this Morty Comix came from two leftover old post-its I had from Morty Comix # 2394, which were affixed to an outside door almost two weeks ago and were, incredibly, still there when I drove by  today even though the weather here has been rainy and windy!

Anyway, since someone in my town has seen fit to take down anything I put up on the Post Office community bulletin board, rip it into shreds and throw it away, I decided to tuck this Morty Comix behind the bulletin board. I know who the perpetrator is and I highly doubt she follows this blog, so I think this one will survive her strange and unvoiced hostility to my work.

McCleary is kind of a weird place. I tried to capture the culture in my Bezango WA 985 series. We enable our many local eccentrics and that adds to the surrealism.

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My modern a-go-go groovy wall hung toilet, which has caused a lot of damage to a wall and floor, has finally been exiled to Recycle-Land. This had a date inside the tank revealing it was manufactured in 1969. So at the same time when Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the Moon, this hip artifact was being produced. Makes you think, don't it? Well, maybe for a few nanoseconds.

My other toilet, which has a date of 1966, is a normal, drab, ordinary device and it works just fine. And drabness, as I am fond of saying, is goodness. Give me normal and drab over cool any day.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Star 80

"They seem like really nice guys. Al is from from Racine, Ford. And Henry and B.B. are from Seattle, Oldsmobile."

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Legislative Building

Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2403

 Morty Comix # 2403 had three images drawn on letter size paper in landscape mode.

In order to find a city to send this to, a roll of the dice resulted in 10. According to the last U.S. Census, the 10th largest city in our nation is San Jose, California.

In order to determine the street, I once again rolled the dice, and once again resulted in 10. According to the National League of Cities, the 10th most popular street name in America is 7th Street. 

Then I rolled three more numbers for the house address, verified online that such an address actually exists, folded and placed the Morty Comix in an envelope with address, return address, and stamp to "Occupant."

 Then, while in Hoodsport, I mailed it off.

The end.

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Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2402

Morty Comix # 2402 was drawn on legal size tissue parchment, folded, and placed in a freebie area of a cafe in Hoodsport, Washington

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Redwood named after Dan Evans in Centennial Park, Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2401

The idea for Morty Comix # 2401 came to me in a meeting at work. I quickly jotted down the basic concept while pretending to look serious and intelligent.

So then I came home and drew six faces. The next stop was my little photocopier.

But guess what? I hadn't used my photocopier since Mini-Comics Day last may 26th. So when I opened the lid for scanning I found the original art for The Floating Head of Humptulips, a jam by Frank Young, Paul Tumey, Jim Gill and myself was still in there! A cartoon bomb for me for a change!

So I took that art and it became the first item in a box of material I'll be sending to the Washington State University Comix Collection when it fills up. I just sent WSU a big box of comix and related material earlier this month.

The box, by the way, was originally sent to me by Michael Dowers, one of several filled with copies of Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.

That hideous and frightening doll hanging above the box was given to me by my daughter many years ago as a joke. It is part of my Bulletin Board project.

 Then, for good measure, I tossed my original draft drawing for Morty Comix # 2401 as well.

Well, my my, we certainly got sidetracked, didn't we? So, back to the six faces:

I ran the images through my photocopier, and reduced them in size, on astrobright pink paper. Maybe about 15 copies. Then I cut them into little squares.

All the little squares were then placed inside a styrofoam cup. The cup itself was titled, numbered and dated.

 The original art, which was ballpoint on graph paper, was burned in my woodstove.

The next day, which is today, I visited a Timberland Library branch north of here and found a great place to leave Morty Comix # 2401 as sort of a cartoon bomb ...

 ... right under a dictionary stand.

And so I bid farewell to another Morty Comix left out in the world all on its own to face an uncertain fate.

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Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Shadow

"The clouded mind sees nothing."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Righteous Kill

"Our job is keeping 99% of the population safe from the other 1%. The problem is that we have to spend half our lives with that 1%, and the better we do that job the less the other 99 think they need us, because they're clueless. The only ones paying attention on the street are the cops and the criminals. Everyone else is just going somewhere or shopping."