{"id":210,"date":"2012-05-29T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/?p=210"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T13:39:45","slug":"the-mini-comics-day-report-from-mccleary-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"The Mini-Comics Day Report from McCleary, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mini-comics pioneer Steve Willis (creator of the longest running comic series of all time, Morty Comix, currently at issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/morty-comix-2370.html\">#2370, available only at an abandoned phone booth<\/a>) organized a great-sounding Mini-Comics Day event in McCleary, WA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-1.html\">Here is Steve&#8217;s overview of the event (note: you&#8217;ll want to follow his blog, as it is immensely entertaining).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickcoin.net\/2012\/05\/national-minicomics-day.html\">Here is Jim Gill&#8217;s report on the event.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumeyland.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/comic-tapirs-pug-dog-sweater-mini.html\">Here is Paul Tumey&#8217;s account of how things went down.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of Steve telling some kids how to make a mini-comic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iu6rhBzg6DY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/search\/label\/Mini-Comics%20Day\">You can see all of Steve&#8217;s Mini-Comics Day posts here on his blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are links to the entire contents of a number of the Mini-Comics Day comics that were produced at the McCleary event:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Untitled\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/em>&#8211; by Steve Willis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Headgear\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/a>&#8211; by Jim Gill<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/tumeyland.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/comic-tapirs-pug-dog-sweater-mini.html\">The Tapir&#8217;s Pug Dog Sweater<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; by Paul Tumey<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-9.html\" target=\"_blank\">All New Refraction Comix<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; by Frank Young<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emanations and Expectorations<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; jam with Willis, Gill, Young, and Tumey<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-10.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Floating Head of Humptulips<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>-\u00c2\u00a0jam with Willis, Gill, Young, and Tumey<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is the Story of Ludwig<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>by Bryan Willis (Steve&#8217;s brother) and Amy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-6.html\">Also, Bruce Chrislip somehow managed to participate in the McCleary event all the way from Cincinati, Ohio!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortythedog.com\/2012\/05\/mini-comics-day-in-mccleary-pt-6.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9W4weIOh7b4\/T8KtZXqVxKI\/AAAAAAAAVY4\/sKts3conbig\/s640\/McCleary+Minicomix+Day+in+Ohio.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini-comics pioneer Steve Willis (creator of the longest running comic series of all time, Morty Comix, currently at issue #2370, available only at an abandoned phone booth) organized a great-sounding Mini-Comics Day event in McCleary, WA. Here is Steve&#8217;s overview of the event (note: you&#8217;ll want to follow his blog, as it is immensely entertaining). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/?p=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mini-Comics Day Report from McCleary, WA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-report","category-mini-comics-day-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minicomics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}