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Dance of Toasters

Butler, Pennsylvania : Maximum Traffic, 1996.

Max put together this jam in June 1996, and included some drawings by my daughter Rose, who was 8 years old at the time.

Seems like an appropriate minicomic to post on Father's Day.

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The beach boys, Charlie and Dreamer

They were strays we found at Ocean Shores, Washington 5 years ago

Damn Weird Comix # 6

Butler, Pennsylvania : Maximum Traffic, 1996.

A jam with Max Traffic and the wonderful Mark Campos. The image on page 3 was no doubt lifted from a Morty Comix.

Both of these beer swilling aliens appeared in print three years later in Modernman # 3; Maximum Traffic # 210.

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Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by Other Artists-- the Leftovers

Earlier I posted Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by other Artists. This was a collection of review columns from WLN Ink in 1990.

Posted here are the remaining mean-spirited columns from 1991 that were published after the book.

The cartoonist mentioned in the first column is Scott Stevens, who was a bassist for the Butthole Surfers in 1981. Scott was a house guest here in McCleary back in the 1980s, I think, and I enjoyed his visit.

I can't remember who put together that librarian cartoon, or why.

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It's one thing to think it, but to actually advertise this opinion is a bit impolite, I'd say.

Move Over Superman, Make Way for Morty / by Johnny Dodd

A profile piece on Edd Vick and Miscellanea Unlimited Press from the University Herald (Seattle, Washington), February 7, 1990.

The "comics aren't just for kids anymore" was an expression journalists liked to use a lot when describing our kind of comix. I first started reading that phrase in the mid-1970s. Today, I think it is pretty much taken for granted there is a huge bloc of Boomers who never let go of the medium and comic art has grown up right alongside us as we spin through the mortal coil.

Johnny Dodd, the author of this article, apparently went on to write for People.

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The Secret Identity of Steve Willis / by Jon Brogger

A somewhat disjointed and typo-ridden rollercoaster of an interview with a journalism student at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington. I remember Jon was a fun guy to talk with. Originally published in Sounds v. 11, no. 2 (November 1996)

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Elma, Washington

Seattle Star

Oh, Washington my home, wherever I may roam--

Michael Dowers first published the comic tabloid Seattle Star in the mid 1980s. Most of my contributions were recycled from my books, but Michael added color to several of them. Here are the colorized versions. All the black and white stuff you guys have already seen in this blog.

I liked the fact that no matter if the comic was reprinted in color or black and white, Michael liked to use a lot of my cartoons with a Washington State or Pacific Northwest theme in keeping with the Seattle Star feel.

Before Fantagraphics moved up here in the late 1980s, Michael Dowers' Starhead Comics publishing concern was probably the main venue for outsiders to learn about comix art from the Pacific Northwest.