Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 2008

Obama '08, Change We Can Believe In

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A caterpillar hangs by a thread over my driveway as the sun sets

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 9

By Maximum Traffic.

"Fox News is crap-full of lies!" So true. Beautiful.

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I followed this car with a helium balloon hanging out of the window for a mile or so in Olympia, Washington. The thing was bouncing around something fierce but it didn't pop.

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1992

Clinton Gore '92

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Notice the union label is part of the display.

In 1992 I saw something I have never seen in a presidential election before or since. In McCleary, a town with a healthy chunk of 1938-1940 immigrants from Arkansas (I live in a part of town known as Arkie Hill), there were home-made signs for Clinton in front yards. In fact as I recall, in our town, George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican incumbent, placed third behind Clinton and Perot in 1992.

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Joe Kubert, 1926-2012

Goodbye Joe. 

Such an amazing artist and one of the greats in the world of comic art. I don't have a lot of valuable material possessions, but I do treasure my Kubert original. I have owned this page from Brave and Bold # 43 (1962) for over 4 decades and never get tired of looking at it. I have learned so much about cartooning just from looking at this single sheet, which Joe probably cranked out in a very short time.

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Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 8

By Maximum Traffic

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Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1992

Ross Perot for President '92

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Charlie and Dreamer on a Charlie and Dreamer mat

Favorite Movie Quotes: Gran Torino

"I know you don't want to hear this, but now is the time to stay calm."

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Styrofoam Cup Art / by Rose

My daughter Rose recently gave me this amazing cup, an example of the kind of artwork she seems to just casually knock off.

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Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1988

Dukakis Bentsen

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, WA

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Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 7

Page 7 by Maximum Traffic. Max tried to "draw" me into this jam by using some of the characters from my comix, such as the fellow in panel 3. The face came from a page in Brave New Nazis of the Inland Empire.

There's that "Bezango" word again. This morning I have been blurting "beZANG!-o" once in awhile for no apparent reason.

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A Slice of Return to Evergreen

The Evergreen State College put together this 3-minute summary of the Return to Evergreen 40th Anniversary of the school.  Watch for Matt Groening and yours truly just after the first minute.

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Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1984

Mondale/Ferraro

Curl has: Local 772

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Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 6

From this point on, all the pages are entirely written and drawn by the amazingly incredible creative ball of energy we know as Maximum Traffic. Students of Newave and Obscuro will notice what care he took to  mimic my drawing style in certain instances in order to have some sort of continuity in the inevitable anarchy of the open jam.

Max is a brilliant star in the comix universe. I am so glad I got to meet him in person last year at SPACE in Columbus, thanks to Bruce Chrislip and Bob Corby making my trip possible.

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Coffee Grounds

Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1980

Anderson For President

Congressman John Anderson of Illinois initially ran in the 1980 primaries as a Republican, but refused to join his party in their extreme tilt to the Right, so he bolted and ran as an independent. One of the more interesting third party campaigns in recent history, he enjoyed support from college campuses (and my Republican father even voted for him) but ultimately had no impact on the election, which was a landslide for Ronald Reagan. Then he vanished. So far as I know, John Anderson is still alive and is 90 years old today.

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The new Tumwater Eagan's has a mural of the old Tumwater Eagan's, the one that was just down the street from Olympia High School when I was a student there. Notice the vintage Olympia Beer neon sign above the scene. The Eagan's pictured here was only a block away from the brewery.

Fifteen Heart Attacks, page 5

On page 5 I did the pencil work, lettering, and partially "inked" (felt tip) panel 1. Maximum Traffic completed the inking on panel 1 and entirely inked panel 2.

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