Saturday, September 15, 2012

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 20




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

I remember I was laughing pretty hard by the time I drew the final panel on this page.

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Steve Willis
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McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Phone photo 1934

Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Libraries - 1980s

Cataloging
Washington State Library

On reverse: Mfg. by Reeves Co., Inc. Attleboro, Mass.

I'm just guessing at what decade this was made. And before you ask, the Anglos do include the letter "u" in  "Catalogue" or "Cataloguing" but the United States does not.



Phone photo 1933

Tumwater, Washington

PTWA Membership Directory Cover

My most recent printed illustration. Design by Nicole Kinney and Erick Young. 

PTWA Executive Director Jackie Barry tells me this is the very last issue of this long running series in hardcopy.

Phone photo 1932

Tunwater, Washington

Friday, September 14, 2012

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 19




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

The right hand margin includes a barely readable note in nonphoto blue: "whole hole"

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Steve Willis
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McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Buttons - Libraries - 2004

Another "Hysteric" Librarian For Freedom

Issued by the American Library Association as a response to US Attorney General John Ashcroft using the term 'hysterics" when describing librarians and their opposition to the "Patriot" Act.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 18




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.


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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Buttons - Libraries - 21st Century

Get the Card!
Pierce County Library System

Favorite Movie Quotes: Call It Murder

"That jury doesn't know what passion is. Buncha saps!"

Phone photo 1931

Tumwater, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 17




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

First panel has white adhesive label for typo correction on third line in word balloon.


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Steve Willis
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McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Morty Comix # 2434




Morty Comix # 2434 was pinned down under a bungee cord around a big pillar in front of a couple business establishments on Olympia's Westside.

Buttons - Libraries - 2000

Library of Congress Bicentennial 1800-2000

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 16




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

The left hand margin has a barely readable note in nonphoto blue: Donk & SW

Looks like I was testing out a felt tip on the top right corner.

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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Buttons - Libraries - 1980s

WLN

A button promoting WLN's LaserCat product, back when CD-ROM was cutting edge.

Phone photo 1930


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6 - p. 15




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

There is a note in nonphoto blue pencil on the righthand margin: "Lies"

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Steve Willis
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Buttons - Libraries - 1980s

Going Places
WLN
Online Interlibrary Loan

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 14




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

I draw myself into this story. On the right margin there is a nonphotoblue note to draw a "pickp."
There are a few little dabs of whiteout in the last two panels.

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Steve Willis
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Buttons - Libraries - 1990s

WLN

WLN initially was an acronym for the Washington Library Network, then it became the Western Library Network, and finally in 1990 the name settled into being just an acronym as a private nonprofit, WLN, Inc.

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 13




Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

Yes, that's my little self-portrait down there in the lower left.

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Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2012