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Bay Center, Washington

Morty Comix # 2475

Morty Comix # 2475 was placed on a metal fold in a windowsill

Faculty Club, University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

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Bay Center, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

"I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead, which, I'm sure, will pass."

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Restaurant at the heart of Bay Center, Washington

Buttons - Comic Art - 1980s?

Starhead Comix

When I compared this to the previous Starhead button I realized the images were actually quite different, and that they were probably made one at a time, each image on each button applied directly.  Pretty amazing. I wonder how many were made like this?

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Oyster shells everywhere

Bay Center, Washington

Morty Comix # 2474

Morty Comix # 2474 was left inside a copy of In Search of the Picts : a Celtic Dark Age Nation / by Elizabeth Sutherland at the University of Washington's graduate library in Seattle.

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A pair of nice shoes left neatly on the side of the road.

Bay Center, Washington

Buttons - Comic Art - 1980s?

Starhead Comix

Looks like this was baked on to some sort of clay. Also, as a subsequent button will show, I am guessing this image was hand made and not the result of mass production.

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A very strange building that used to be a quite creepy looking Masonic Temple. It was recently cleaned up and is now a denture place, or something like that. South Bend, Washington.

Morty Comix # 2473

Morty Comix # 2473 was drawn into the sand at the ocean beach, Seaview, Washington. The wind was so incredibly strong that it was more of a threat to the art than the incoming tide!

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South Bend, Washington and the Willapa River

Buttons - Comic Art

 

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

I have to admit this one is sort of a mystery to me. I have a vague memory this was issued to me as an attendee of some kind of comic event, but beyond that I cannot say. Anyone recognize it?

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Free

Raymond, Washington

Morty Comix # 2472

Morty Comix # 2472 was drawn on the morning window condensation of the trailer where my brother Bryan and nephew Zach were staying at the Sou'wester in Seaview, Washington.

Too bad most of the image is lost in the photo. I guess this issue of Morty Comix is mostly lost to history as well. I realize that my current distribution of this title on the face might seem crazy, but on another level I have an audience who reads the Morty the Blog documentation of this artistic communication, although it garners very few responses from the finders. So the comic alone isn't as important as the conceptual placement and documentation, which in itself has become my new art form.

The Myth of Sisyphus by Big Al Camus probably explains my motives here better than anything else.

Back in 1965 we lost our big farm home to fire, and that was followed by seven glorious years with four of us in a trailer about the same size as the one pictured above. Our trailer was a third-hand, falling apart Great Lakes. Our Shetlands would scratch their backs on the end of the mobile home, and our whole house would shake.

But we survived intact and emerged the better for it. My own early lesson here was that material possessions are temporary and can be taken away in a flash. And when that happens, what is left?

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Raymond, Washington

Buttons - Comic Art - 1988

1988 Morty Awards

Steve Willis

Arnie's Hall of Fame

The button is browning up a bit. This was from the Comics F/X Morty Awards.

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Raymond, Washington

Morty Comix # 2471

Morty the Dog # 2471 was drawn onto the shower steam on the bathroom mirror in the tiny trailer I stayed in at the Sou'wester, Seaview, Washington

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Raymond, Washington

Buttons - Comic Art - 1982

 

By Jamie Alder

On the curl: Industrial Dream Factory, Bill Shut (c) 82

On the reverse: Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301

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Car Wash

Raymond, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Magnum Force

"Look, you work with Briggs on this, Callahan. But if you ever lean out of line so help me I'll flop you lower than whale shit."

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Raymond, Washington

Morty Comix # 2470

Morty Comix # 2470 was shuffled into a small bucket of coasters at a restaurant in Long Beach, Washington

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Raymond, Washington

Another Weird Gift From My Brother

My brother Bryan gave me this generous gift for my birthday. It is a plastic piggy bank. The little swine is on his back and soccer ball is obscenely placed.

To make matters even more utterly delightful, Bryan once again altered the Goodwill price tag in order to elevate the value of his gift. Also, the thing is covered with a fine petina of some gross, oily, sticky substance.

Charming.

But hey, at least I got 14 cents and a slug out of the deal when I opened it up.

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Mental

Raymond, Washington