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09/17/2015

And so it begins ...

Signing
Kenosha kicked off quietly for me, because I didn't land at the right time yesterday afternoon to be swept up with everyone else which had yielded some fun material last year.

But Tom Racine came out to the Milwaukee airport and not only gave me a ride but pointed out an antiquarian bookstore that set us both back a pretty penny for collections of classic comics, my part being a collection of Clare Briggs strips and a volume of Pulitzer Sunday pages.

Meanwhile, the cartoonists were gathering at John and Anne Hambrock's (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee) house for dinner and to begin the task of signing swag for the people who had supported the fundraiser. From left, Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Mark Tatulli (Heart of the City, Lio, Desmond Pucket), Anne Hambrock, Darrin Bell (Candorville, Rudy Park, editorial cartoons), Mark Anderson (Andertoons), Kate Hambrock w/ cat, and Mike Cope, who is photographing the event and is a pretty fair cartoonist and illustrator on his own.

Ed Steckley (Mad Magazine, Cracked) and Bill Morrison (Disney, Bongo Comics/Simpsons, Futurama, Roswell Little Green Man) arrived shortly after my camera announced that its battery was done for the night, but they ate dinner and signed stuff, too, and you'll see more of them anon.

Today's program should yield a good deal more material for tomorrow's blog, but, in the meantime ...

Martoonies
Here's to ya.

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