Morty Comix # 2618

Morty Comix # 2618 was slipped into a book by B. Kliban in the room where I stayed in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Handprint of ... ? at Allegheny Cemetery

Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona. The most modern, fully-equipped and luxurious coliseum and convention center in the entire Southwest is focal point of the 80-acre Arizona State Fairgrounds. Beautifully equipped and decorated, it seats over 14,000 and hosts conventions, sporting events, exhibits, trade shows, theatrical productions and concerts."

Late 1960s?

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Quite possibly the most useless bike lock ever

Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2617

Morty Comix # 2617 (which has already been discovered, I'm informed) was hidden in a hat in a cabin in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Somehow I lost a couple of the shots documenting this event.

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Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"North Central Highrise Complex, Phoenix, Arizona. Viewing from the left: Executive Towers Apartments, Del Webb's Towne House, Del Webb Office Building, Guarantee Bank, and the Financial Center. The two circular satellites adjacent to the Financial Center are the Pioneer and Home Savings Banks. Picturesque Squaw Peak looms on the horizon."

I'm guessing 2nd half of the 1960s. Squaw Peak was renamed Piestewa Peak in 2003.

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Cemetery entrance, Pittsburgh

Favorite Movie Quotes: Killing Zoe

"If you do it, it will make you feel as though the rest of the world is in a bubble of glass and you are rubbing against it like a bad windshield wiper."

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Sacred Heart of Jesus Store

Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2616

Oh, the cards that we are dealt by Fate. Hey, I think I drew an entire comic on that premise, Cranium Frenzy # 9 back in 1998.

Anyway, Morty Comix # 2616 was folded up into a little square and squeezed into a box of playing cards at a home in Butler, Pennsylvania. Three other people were in the room as I performed this task but I managed to pull it off as my greatest card trick.

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In the display window of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Store, Pittsburgh

Postcard - Phoenix, Arizona

"Aerial View of Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. The Capitol of Arizona, Phoenix with a population of approx. 350,000 is a desert metropolis in the center of the fertile Salt River Valley. World famous as a winter resort. Phoenix also is prominent in the supply of citrus and produce."

If the population estimate is correct, this postcard dates back to the 1950s.

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Hmm. Spotted on a telephone pole in Pittsburgh.

Morty Comix # 2615

Morty Comix # 2615 was placed inside of a fez in a home at Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Butler County, Pennsylvania

Postcard - Dateland, Arizona

"Dateland, Arizona"

Probably 1940s

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Butler, Pennsylvania

Morty Comix # 2614

 

Morty Comix # 2614 was placed inside a tabletop ad at a restaurant in Hampton Township, Pennsylvania.

Eat'n Park is a regional chain and the name brings up some questions. What exactly is the word "Eat'n" contracting? Do they mean "Eat and Park"? And if so, wouldn't "Park and Eat" make more sense as this is not a drive-in? Or "Eat and Drive"? Or is the contraction a way of calling the place an "Eating Park"?

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Morty stencils by Max Traffic

Butler, Pennsylvania

Postcard - Nome, Alaska

"Nome, Alaska, on the Seward Peninsula at Bering Sea with a large Eskimo population. Seen here is Main Street with City Hall."

1960s.

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The Redeye to Newark

Morty Comix # 2613

Morty Comix # 2613 was placed in a nonfurtive way in Bruce Chrislip's drawing notebook during the Obscuro Bezango show opening at the Future Tenant gallery in Pittsburgh. In fact, Mike Hill even photographed the event and the flash on his camera was caught in my first photo here.

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SeaTac Airport

Postcard - Nome, Alaska

"Aerial view of Nome, Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea."

1960s?

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SeaTac Airport

Morty Comix # 2612

Morty Comix # 2612 was drawn on the back of a bank form and placed inside a copy of Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls by William Cole with illos by the great Tomi Ungerer.  It was due to Ungerer's presence here that I chose to use this book as my drawing "clipboard" cushioned by thin cardboard during my wonderful week in Butler, Pennsylvania. I think I drew about 50 Morty Comix during that magical week, which is more drawing than I have done in a long time. But I was with a very creative and inspirational group of people and actually had time to breathe.

Yes, I am left-handed. But I am also right-eyed, right-eared and right-nostriled. There's a great pun waiting to be born here, but I'm tired.

Anyway, I have been informed this particular Morty Comix has already been discovered.