Morty the Dog

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Morty Comix # 2693

Morty Comix # 2693 was placed inside the metal ribbing of a demo storage unit at a sales lot in Satsop, Washington.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The King's Speech

"We're not a family. We're a firm."

Nana Mouskouri Sings Bacharach

This Empty Place

Anniversary Song

1946 sheet music for a song from the movie The Jolson Story. The back cover includes other movie scores.

The Comix Files: Greg Beda

Greg Beda's signature and self-portrait from a 1998 letter, Redwood City, California.

Favorite Movie Quotes: I [Heart] Huckabees

"I’m just going to accept my loneliness, and I’m going to an even darker place of nothingness from an even farther, more extreme nothingness, on my own!"

Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms

Quite an awkward title on this 1935 piece of sheet music. Cover art was by Chicago artist James Axelrod. The back cover includes some fun images for other products from Calumet. That is a very young Freddy Martin. I found two other versions of this score cover online with different photographs in the inset. One had a different picture of Martin, and the other had Kay Kyser.

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McCleary's helipad

Jerry Johnson, who is listed on the plaque as Chairman, along with his pal Windsor Olson, have a very unique place in the history of the McCleary Bear Festival in perpetuating a hoax that lasted several years and helped the town enormously!

The Comix Files: "Bambi" and Dyslexic

This short 1993 letter from "Bambi" may have actually been Julee Peezlee, the name behind the zine Dyslexic. Here are the fun mail-artish graphics that came with the note.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Devil Wears Prada

"Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke. Means it's time for a promotion"

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Morty Comix # 2692

Morty Comix # 2692 was drawn on a foamboard scrap I had.

While in the waiting room of our local clinic for a friend, there was a brief window of time where I was the only person around. Being the art opportunist that I am, this Morty Comix was placed in the drawer of a little stand.

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The Tangeers Sing Bacharach

This Empty Place

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That Old Gang of Mine

This cover, from 1923, resembles a motion picture lobby card in the way it is compartmentalized. I like how artist Malcolm Perret filled the lower left corner with an Art Deco swash for the dapper fellow to stand on. Also notice the drawing of the card game-- even though Prohibition was in full effect, the Old Gang appears to be drinking some bootleg booze.

And speaking of dapper guys, gotta love those "Beau Brummels of Song Land"!

All the names written on this cover suggest it was passed around a lot.

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McCleary, Washington

The Comix Files: Chuck Baldock

"Mikhail Bakunin" [i.e. Chuck Baldock] of Stinkbug Studios in Evansville, Indiana had a nice signoff in this 1997 letter.

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The helium Valentines heart falls back to Earth after a brief flight of fancy and becomes tangled in the thorny stems of reality.

Friday, February 21, 2014

The Searchers Sings Bacharach

This Empty Place

Oh! How She Lied

1923 cover by Albert Wilfred Barbelle, who gave us quite the character study between this couple. Love the way he used the circles in the background to create a feeling of disorientation, along with the cartoon expression lines around the fellow's cranium.