Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: New York (Brooklyn)-Washington (Seattle)

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Olympia, Washington

$25 Sale - The Glass Doll

The Glass Doll, Jan. 1979, designed for early readers in the Olympia School District and starring Morty the Dog prototype, Odd Dog.

I have several copies for sale at $25 each. All of them bear markings of having been read, but they are in very good shape.

$25 ppd each
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

or order through PayPal

Favorite Movie Quotes: Bad Girls

"Grand territory, Oregon. I spent a couple of years there, once. A lot of rain, a lot of logs. I don't like either."

This film would've been more appropriately entitled: Bad Movie

Buttons - State Campaign - 1988

Max, Demo.

Max is Max Vekich, State House Rep from Washington State's 35th District (chiefly Grays Harbor area) in the 1980s. I believe I picked up this button in 1988.

Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: Connecticut (Hartford)-New York (Brooklyn)

Buttons - State Campaign - 1988

Democrat Dan Grimm State Treasurer

A button for the first of Dan Grimm's two terms as Washington State Treasurer

Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: California (Redlands)-Connecticut (Greenwich)

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Buttons - State Campaign - 1972

Don Bonker, Secretary of State

Bonker tried and failed twice for the Washington State Office of Secretary of State. First in 1972, when I picked up this button, and again in 2000.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Brothers Bloom

"I want an unwritten life."

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Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: Alabama-California (Orinda)

Shortly after Jay Kennedy released The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide (1982) I went through it and re-sorted the geographic information by hand. Remember, this was long before Internet. I was interested in the demographics and regional distribution of this thing of ours. Plus, I am a librarian. This is what we do.

This was all hammered out on a manual typewriter, probably in 1982. I'll be posting this in parts. It has never been distributed in any form.

Jay's list, of course, was not complete, but he made a very good effort. If you hit the tag for the Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide you'll see some folks had issues with the publication. Jay is gone, and so is his biggest critic, Lynn Hansen. I liked them both very much and still miss these two guys.

In 1982 I didn't expect to outlive these two good men, but here I am, still around even though I am among the most sedentary of humans. The guy I list as my family doctor died several years ago. I smoke cigars and don't exercise. Fate has given me the task of being a relic and bloviating about the past of an obscure art movement, passing the torch to the students of the esoteric. So here I am blogging for you.

And, as Vonnegut said, so it goes.

This will be a long list, so you comix historians keep checking in.