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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Sixth Sense

"I never told you, but you sound a little like Dr. Seuss when you're drunk." 

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 73]

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Morty Comix # 2367

Morty Comix # 2367 was placed in a brochure case for tourists at an Olympia, Washington vehicle rental agency

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 12

When I went to the Post Office to take down the poster now that the event is over, I see my poster-ripper-upper friend was back at work.

Apparently a "Free speech for me but not for thee" Puritan type. Or just someone with a lot of unresolved anger.

Weird.

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 11

By "Ali Foster and Stinky McFartomatic"

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 10

The Floating Head of Humptulips was a jam on Mini-Comics Day by Frank Young, Jim Gill,  Paul Tumey and Morty the Dog. The "occupency" sign (by Paul?) is a real-life typo from a public notice posted by the City of McCleary in the Community Center. Yes, Grays Harbor County is indeed in the Third World, where literacy is not first nature and dictionaries gather dust. It is even evident on street signs and newspaper headlines. On the public health index and unemployment, this county ranks dead last out of 39 counties in Washington.

Still, I love Grays Harbor County. This place is one of the last islands of the old Washington State, the real Washington we rural Boomer natives knew as we were growing up. Sasquatch is safe out here. We can still scratch where it itches. Wild Russian boars run amok.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Camille

"Too much, and not enough!"

Morty Comix # 2366

Morty Comix # 2366 was dropped into the after hour depository slot of a bank in Elma, Washington, that has been closed probably since the 1970s. Ron Austin was my witness in this act. Ron commented that I had a very strange way of distributing my comix, but I feel it is actually quite normal. In fact, I am so normal the U.S. Bureau of Normality uses my life as a median. Need I say more?

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Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 9.

It is so impressive Frank Young drew this minicomic in one sitting right here in little old McCleary. This guy knows how to write and convert it to graphic form. Beautiful work in such a short time.

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Mini-Comics Day In McCleary, pt. 8

Emanations and Expectorations was a jam conceived by Jim Gill and included Frank Young, Paul Tumey, and myself in honor of Mini-Comics Day.

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Summit Lake Grocery

This place still has gas pumps that counts your gallons in a non-digital way. Yes!

Woody Barker's hangout is no more than a quarter hour from this store.

Mini-Comics Day in McCleary, pt. 7

My untitled solo contribution to Mini-Comics Day. From conception to final printing, collating and stapling of 10 copies = 44 minutes. The tremor in my drawing hand is getting worse but I'm still good for a few more comix.

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Budd Inlet, 4th Ave. Bridge, and on the horizon the old St. Pete's Hospital where my brother was born

Back then in the late 1950s, St. Pete's would not allow child visitors in the hospital. So I remember my uncle and aunt taking shifts watching me in their 1958 Chevy parked in the parking lot while I drew cartoons with my finger on the late November rear car window condensation as my sibling entered the world.

Morty Comix # 2365

Morty Comix # 2365 was slipped into Jim Gill's clipboard while he was busy trying to figure out Frank Young's photocopy logistics during Mini-Comics Day in McCleary.

This particular Morty Comix shows signs of me testing which of my long standing drawing tools still worked.