Unpublished Drawings ca. 1977-1978

Included in this is a poster dated January 18, 1977 and measuring roughly 24 x 18 inches. Among the passengers in the train you'll find our then newly elected nutty one-term governor, Dixy Lee Radiation.

Also in the notepad there are some initial drawings of a certain dog character I was starting to develop at the time.

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Legislative Building, Olympia, Washington

Strange? I'll Show You Strange!

Every now and then, but less so now as the then of 30 years ago, we obscuro press cartoonists are described as eccentric or strange when compared with the rest of the population.

But I would like to point out that what we do is quite normal and healthy and not nearly as strange as other activities which are totally acceptable by the mainstream.

Like the game of golf. How weird is that? I mean really? C'mon.

Think about it.

And now, for no apparent reason, I'll include a picture of yours truly in Washington DC with two people in giant cat costumes in 2007.

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Elizabeth's pigs

Unpublished Drawings 1971-1974

Page 2 of the comic collector story is missing. I believe this was drawn about 1971. There might have been other pages after page 4, but I can't recall. The drawing pad is dated December 1972. The Bogart portrait is dated March 18, 1974.

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"Love/Hate" created by the incredible Maximum Traffic/Borpo Deets/Buzz Buzziyk.

I used this dead outlet cover in my kitchen after my daughter repainted the walls.

Random Reflections 1976

1st edition, summer 1976, Olympia, Washington, 100 copies, 30 leaves, olive covers, light blue pages, stapled at edge.

Another cringeworthy comic that will never be reprinted as long as I'm alive. It was my misfortune to make 100 of these and I can only hope most of them no longer exist. This is one of those comix I wish would just vanish from memory and existence. But I shut my eyes real tight, and when I reopen them this damn book is still there, mocking me. I'm scanning and posting one page as a sample and that's all you are going to see.

At the time I was drawing this I lived a house with a bunch of students (actually I was a dropout at that point, but I did go back to school). It was a run down dwelling on Olympia's East Bay Drive, but it had a great view. Here's a photo of the artist as a young dog on the back dock of the house during the time this book was being created. That's downtown Olympia in the background. I think I had a job working in a summer school as a teacher's aide with developmentally disabled children in the summer of '76.

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