PROFANITY HILL: April 2011

here's my "dear diary" for the stump-ump show that jest happened

SAT

kelly, max and meself were on the road by 5:30 sat morn
ridiculously early
driving was good and grey and it was raining upsidedown
pit stopped in chehalis for pits and coffee and chow
back on the road in no time to no rain
made port town in 2 hrs and 45 mins
bought coffee at burgerville
bleary eyed we stumbled our way into the show
eroyn showed up as the show started
great sense of humor
back to stumbling
seeing ol friends and stumbling threw conversations
yuk yuks

left the show and found the saddest sandwich in the world
the sandwich was so sad its name was sadwich
drizzled my way back to the show
coffee coffee coffee

after the show we scarfed with 200 people at a long table at a greek or middle eastern chow house
nicolas the 2nd i think it was called
couldn't wait to git me kabobs
while we ate we jawed about economic forecasting, upcoming pdx zine symposium, beefheart vs zappa, france, health and "the comics ghetto"
was surprised to hear "the comics ghetto"
not sure if its mention was only tied to the stumptown show or world at large
hard to stomach considering the abundance of comics support and broadcast in roseland
harder to stomach considering what an asinine term "the comics ghetto" is
what do these nice people want?
"the comics suburbs"?
talk about silver spoons
after nicolas the 2nd some of us went to downtown backscratch where some guitar music was being guitared
met up with tony and caught up while he ate a burger and i drank more coffee
tony hooked me up with 2 cool records (sublime frequencies and the sun city girls)
nize!

the night wore thin and i drove to chris and mindy's to zzzzz
chris and i could've talked until 4 in the morn like last year but we cut it short round 2
always good convo with chris
we talked about the micro/macro perception of "the comics ghetto" and swapped notes on the energy import/export of cartoon characters
zzzzz

SUN

during the night i had a pawful of visits from gertrude the cat
gertrude is the loudest cat west of the mississippi
one point during the night i woke to what felt like a crazy bug crawling on my face
i hit the light and
ME-EE-EOWR!!!
gertrude and i were snout to snout and she was staring me down
letting me know i was in her spot
i petted her and she nestled

in the morn woke up rested from a good snooze to the sound of some ol jazz music
chris was doing his morning stretches
mindy graciously made a pot of joe for me (my morning stretches)
mindy and i gabbed about public schools and teaching...
been thinking a lot about this stuff lately…
about my public school experience…
sometimes i wish i'd dropped out or taken the ged early
school for me was a lesson in how to get by with a minimum of (institutional) learning and how to bide my time
and drawing and writing was a way to occupy that biding
so was reading and cutting class to check out the books in the library
i'm happy to know mindy's teaching
before we left the house chris told me johnny ryan had won a stumppump award for best lettering
we both laughed for some reason

made it to the table just as the doors were opening and just as kelly and max discovered they couldn't find their table money
they quickly surmised the $ was still at the hotel where they'd already checked out
kelly split for the hotel to try and retrieve the $
bout half hour later kelly came back
the damn hotel was stonewalling her
so max and her went back to the hotel to raise a ruckus
bout 10 min later eroyn shows up and tells me her car was broken into
smashed the window to nothing and took her bag
what the hell!?
portland was trying to kick our ass
maybe 2 hours later kelly and max came back to the show victorious
they raised hell until the hotel "found" their money behind a stained couch
apparently max's rancor was such that it caused the hotel manager to leave premise

the day went as many of these days do
we tore down our table right quick and left to hit the road home
we stopped in kalama to find happy sandwiches and free coffee
during the drive home we were washed with beautiful sky and clouds slowly transforming and revealing hidden colors
we pit stopped in oly an old home of mine
round tacoma we discussed the whys and hows of seeking feedback about ones art
i was effusively pushing for truthful constructive criticism
must've been the coffee

dropped kelly and max at their place round 10
helped carry their stuff into their apartment which felt warm and welcoming
on my way home i stopped at the used bookstore where max had seen an owen plummer zine
he didn't pick it up because it had a stain on it
"i have a rule about buying things with stains on em" says max
i checked but the plummer had already been got
i then went to the old book section and flipped threw an old copy of pilgrim's progress

finally home i flopped on my bed tired
but not too tired to stay up and read some of the stuff i got

WHAT WAS GOT

brigade comics 5 by wade busby circa 1985 (half size)

brigade comics 7 by wade busby circa 1986 (half size)

icon tract 1 by wade busby circa 1989 (half size)

mr emergency by wade busby circa 2007 (half size)

the 80s busby tracts are superhero sci fi comics

they look urgent, beautiful and energetic

mr emergency looks a trip

existential dilemma comix #2 by ben bush (half size)

existential dilemma comix #3 by ben bush (half size)
existential dilemma comix #4 by ben bush (half size)

last year i met ben at the bad apple and traded him for existential dilemma comix #1

3 fat comics in a years time!!? git busy!

soixante neuf by david lasky and mairead case (square size)

promotional comic about jane birkin and serge gainsbourg for light in the attic records

pdx uncanny by cobra laser face (half size)

on sunday zanadu sean handed me this demented awesome celebration take down of the xmen

the church of awesome thought - dream grant by sean christensen (quarter size)

i met sean a couple years ago at the pdx zine show

his stuff is dense and happy making

wanderlost by kevin moore (half size)

duck comics!

blár by sophie yanow (half size)

untitled onesheet by sophie yanow (special size)

peel yer eyes for soph's stuff

the onesheet is damn beautiful and blár doesnt have any staples!

zine city comix 6 by kinoko (half size)

zine city comix 8 by kinoko (half size)

one of my favorite series by one of my fave people

soooooo gooooood

sorry sheets by eroyn franklin (special size)

these were flying off the table

should be on this site for sale soon

420 dre by amy kuttab, jason overby, jesse mcmanus and blaise larmee (comic book size)

the title for this one might be dan quayl…?

this is a free comic produced by teenage dinosaur, gazeta, revival house and sparkplug

the spirit animal for this comic is callahan the cartoonist who drew with his feet

vastness no. 2 by aidan koch (special size)

beautiful beautiful full color beautiful onesheet

powwkipsie by iain laurie and lan formatique (quarter size)

very cool looking gross toothy comic with a 3 inch cd

cant wait to listen and read at the same time

seleone by cameron hawkeye (special size)

mumbles one by cameron hawkeye (quarter size)
mumbles too by cameron hawkeye (quarter size)

seleone is a cool full color text photo combo zine

mumbles one solid and mumbles too looks to be future comix

act 6 by steve ditko (special size)

act 7 by steve ditko (special size)

one of my favorite cartoonists still at it!

the whitman walker weekly by martine workman (special size)

i've been waiting for this zine for over a year!

its a miniature paper about the comings and goings of whitman street

thing looks like a little newspaper!

videotonfa misc shit 4/11 by tim goodyear (half size)

one of my favorite zines going

how many issues is this tim?

movie reviews as drawings of video boxes of the movies reviewed!

brilliant!

layered jacket #1 by corey lewis (tabloid size)
layered jacket #2 by corey lewis (tabloid size)
we are the broken ones by vincent lavious and corey lewis (quarter size)

real happy to met corey

he's a seattler

his stuff is energetic, fluid and exciting

makes me remember jr high and seeing paul pope's stuff for the first time

untitled by alexa koenings (special size)

beautifully printed atmospheric onesheet that comes with a button

very dense interesting comic

vulture heck by patrick keck (half size)

hino by patrick keck (quarter size)

these look fantastic especially vulture heck

this guys stuff is sneaky

two days away from staring at birds from a park bench by kelly froh (quarter size)
weekend casserole by kelly froh (half size)
forevertron by kelly froh (special size)

all of these are excellent zines and comix

what a title on that first one!

forevertron is one of my faves! its a fanzine about this awesome sculpture park in wisconsin

these should be on the site soon

terrible lizards by stumptown underground (half size)

pedal power by stumptown underground (half size)

crazy dense theme zines

study group 12 #4 by various (special size)

very cool book with tons of great stuff

git it wile the gittins güd

the yankee by jason levian and william mcewan (half size)

this thing looks crazy and awesome

weird sci fi hallucinatory genre stuff

march fourth by sam samuels and maré odom (quarter size)

sweet

untitled by kinoko and cameron hawkeye (half size)

on sunday kinoko handed me this 2 color zine and sed "look at what me and cameron made last night"

one of my favorite zines of the show

plastic souls by mike mcghee (special size)

this is an ashcan but i think it looks great

awesome creepy crazy sci fi

super energetic

deep seed by max clotfelter and tim miller (square size)

electric corn bread by max clotfelter (special size)
jackpot fast luck specials by max clotfelter (quarter size)
cig tricks by max clotfelter (quater size)

deep seed might be my show favorite

i can't stop thinking about it

i want to make my own deep seed

cig tricks is one of the best portrait zines round

jackpot is funny cosmic terror

electic corn bread is…

social discipline 4 by ian sundahl (half size)

round room funnies by ian sundahl (quarter size)
looking 2 by ian sundahl and fran victor (special size)

ian sundahl is one of favorite cartoonists

i think he's untouchable

so happy to see new work from him

stun nuts 8 by chris cilla (half size)

chris is another favorite cartoonist of mine and his series stun nuts is one of my favorite series going

stun nuts 8 frightened me

scary stuff

tales of the cat killin coat by tim root (half size)

this comic is schlitz nuts!!!

dolphin summersalting on fire

crazy taped-in page that folds out

gruesome stainy body fluid horror comic

hamburger house indeed!

other side of town by alex delaney (comic book size)

other side of town chapter two by alex delaney (comic book size)
rapt in fear by alex delaney (comic book size)
nowhere bound by alex delaney (comic book size)
professor ozarks secret medicine show by alex delaney (comic book size)
brass knuckle rituals by alex delaney (comic book size)
swan song by alex delaney (comic book size)

about a year or so ago my friend gave me a copy of delaney's the derelict #1

it was one of the best creepiest comics i'd read in a long time

true urban horror hyper realism

feel the rats gnawing at your ankles

i was super excited to discover alex tabling next to us

so happy to meet him and yak about tim vigil (have you read eo?) and tim tyler

alex is the real deal

saw ben marra bonin up at alex's table

wish i was more down instead of down and out about marra's stuff

that maureen dowd thing went over my head and and i can't ignore abel ferarra's fear city when trying to read night business and gangsta rap posse and computer drawing… sigh… he must be doing something right for his stuff to get under my skin

anyway

alex tells me derelict #2 is due out soon!

automan by karn piana (comic book size)

i accidentally and happily printed a karn drawing in wet paint #2

been waiting to read this for a LOOONG time

loved his story in class of skookum high

looks great

junque land 1 by jason fish fischer and robin bogert (comic book size)

lovely lovingly made porn comic featuring a dino-babe and a lizard man

very well drawn and sexy positive

one of the big show discoveries for me

the disgusting room by austin english (special size)

oversized full color austin english comics!

if i had a list for comics of the year this would be on it

austin really brought it

his tightest most uninhibited work

highest recommendation

THATS IT

4/29/11

PROFANITY HILL NO. 1

4/20/11

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