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[Oct. 12th, 2008|02:25 pm]
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i read this entry by mza a couple weeks ago and wanted to make a minicomic out of it for spx. unfortunately, my cartooning abilities were temporarily disabled by back spasm (more difficult to draw while lying on back under influence of pharmaceuticals), so this is its big debut.

(note: the "letter to a cat" isn't in this version. for that you have to read lj lostcosmonaut or get an actual paper minicomic.)

44 presidents cover



44 presidents 1 and 2

44 presidents 344 presidents 4+5

44 presidents nos 6+744 presidents 8+9

44 presidents 10+1144 presidents number 12 + 13

44 presidents number 1444 presidents number 15

44 presidents number 1644 presidents nos 17+18

44 presidents nos 19+2044 presidents number 21

44 presidents nos 22 and 2344 presidents number 24

44 presidents number 2544 presidents 26

44 presidents 27a44 presidents taft b

44 presidents 28a44 presidents wilson b

44 presidents number 2944 presidents harding b

44 presidents number 3044 presidents number 30b

44 presidents number 31

44 presidents number 3244 presidents fdr2

44 presidents number 3344 presidents number 34

44 presidents number 3544 presidents number 36

44 presidents number 3744 presidents 38

44 presidents 39a44 presidents 39b

44 presidents number 4044 presidents 41+42

44 presidents 43a44 presidents 43b

44 presidents number 44

UPDATE: if you want a paper version of this comic, you can get one by emailing me your address (send it to dogwitharussianhat at gmail), then sending $2.50 to katsam (((at))) oddpost /dot/ com. Or, if you prefer, you can buy one at etsy.

UPDATE 2: now this comic will also be part of the experimental tabloid Diamond Comics available through Floating World Comics after November 3rd!
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[User Picture]From: [info]raccoonpower
2008-10-12 10:22 pm (UTC)

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I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as usual, you are a brilliant genius. what is a paypal account i can send monies to so i can BUY COPIES of all of your comix and zines?

ps: love the spike lee thing on the cover.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 01:13 am (UTC)

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i don't have a paypal account and clearly have trouble mailing things. HOWEVER when i do mail things you're on the front wave of the list.

you could also try to get lj lostcosmonaut (the writer) to mail you one, i don't know what he's planning to do with his share of the proceeds but he's going to have a medium-sized batch
[User Picture]From: [info]grumpalita
2008-10-12 11:03 pm (UTC)

multiple copies

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third time viewing this today. so great!
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 01:15 am (UTC)

did i mention i am hungry and envious of your photographs of food.

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oooh i'm glad you like it -- !
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 01:21 am (UTC)

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i see your weird historical cartoonist and raise you one kate beaton
[User Picture]From: [info]astoriapark
2008-10-13 12:43 am (UTC)

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This is fantastic. Your Harding looks a lot like Harding. I like that you changed McCain to blank. Dare to dream.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 01:14 am (UTC)

i am glad you are feeling a little better

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thanks!

dream dream dream

the original text was written the week after america met sarah palin. now that the economy is destroyed it seems like the election might be swinging the other direction
[User Picture]From: [info]ohbusiness
2008-10-13 02:37 am (UTC)

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I am obsessed with funny presidential histories and am starting a kitschy presidential collection. I have a set of pencils that only goes up to Reagan, a framed portrait of Eisenhaur that says, "Support General Eisenhaur, buy war bonds, and a presidential coloring book. also, "George W Bush and his paper doll family." I would love to buy a copy of this from you. I would probably also send you a mix cd.
[User Picture]From: [info]kerrickadrian
2008-10-13 05:26 am (UTC)

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I read that as "Support General Eisenhauer: Buy war bonds and a presidential coloring book!"

Have you read Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell? You would like it.
[User Picture]From: [info]rae_beta
2008-10-13 02:39 am (UTC)

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You are brilliant. Can I give you money for a physical copy of this? If reading it on the interwebs has made my life this much better, I cannot help but wonder what bizarre effects physical contact might produce!
[User Picture]From: [info]kerrickadrian
2008-10-13 05:26 am (UTC)

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rae_is brought me here. I love it! Thank you!
[User Picture]From: [info]stopword
2008-10-13 03:20 am (UTC)

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This is wonderful.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 06:08 am (UTC)

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I'm glad you like it. :D
[User Picture]From: [info]lucidtv
2008-10-13 06:02 am (UTC)

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DANG this is pretty good!

Carter is my favorite.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 06:08 am (UTC)

smiles, pouts, and glowers

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thanks, strange cartoonist!
[User Picture]From: [info]rosiedee
2008-10-13 07:58 am (UTC)

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OH MAN AWESOME.

I am totally impressed with your ability to draw people that look like all the right people.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 08:07 am (UTC)

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thanks s.!

i think my portraiture skills are only batting about 50% in this particular essay, but i enjoy drawing from photographs, it's soothing somehow.

did you ever get to take life drawing in school? it is super fun. man i wish i were in a life drawing class right now.
[User Picture]From: [info]mattbayne
2008-10-13 02:57 pm (UTC)

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I <3 that.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 06:33 pm (UTC)

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Thanks! :D
[User Picture]From: [info]eowyn797
2008-10-13 06:14 pm (UTC)

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okay, THAT was amazing. i'd like to get in line somewhere to buy a copy! especially loving Calvin Coolidge and the mystery #44 :)
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 06:37 pm (UTC)

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you can email me your address if you want one.

also -- is there a store which sells minicomics near you? i'm trying to pitch some stores to carry comics on consignment, and i'm asking all my (geographically disparate) commenters SO I CAN TAKE OVER TH WORLD
[User Picture]From: [info]stopremembering
2008-10-13 06:18 pm (UTC)

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are you selling these someplace or what? i should get one. i highly approve of what you've been doing... really cool.

i still have the photocopied posters you sent me way back too. :) i copied one and it's still at my old office i used to work at. this pleases morbo.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-13 06:31 pm (UTC)

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i'm trying to sell them places. sparkplug comics is going to sell some, and in portland i think guapo is going to have a few. i also have some places i'm consigning them in new york and chicago and new orleans BUT NOWHERE IN SEATTLE! do you know anywhere in seattle i might be able to email and pitch to take some on consignment? how about in olympia? really any place that sells minicomics.

if you can think of a place, maybe i can send a package of six and you can take five to the seattle comics store. if not, email me your address anyway and i'll send you one.
[User Picture]From: [info]piedpiper
2008-10-13 11:53 pm (UTC)

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i am on strike against reading this until i receive my other mailed stuffs!!!

not really :) it's super-great and makes me uber-jealous. you are both geniuses (genii?)
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-15 01:20 am (UTC)

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your package is on the assembly line. i am having trouble finding one of the cat portraits, but am thinking i'll send the 90384398439 other things i've promised you first, with the 2nd portrait coming later, WHO KNOWS, I COULD BE TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF
[User Picture]From: [info]d_o_i_l_y
2008-10-14 02:47 pm (UTC)

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I'm late to the party, but this is awesome stuff. Who knew I'd like Nixon the best? I told the gals in my typing pool what you said about George Washington and they love it.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-15 01:19 am (UTC)

like a movie being projected on another movie

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Thanks, D.!

My favorite text is FDR. And my favorite picture is LBJ.

It wasn't what I said about Washington, tho -- it was lj lostcosmonaut who said it. (He was my friend who ran past the table at the Ethiopian concert.) The text is all him, I'm just the picture lady.
From: [info]anchorsaway
2008-10-15 06:10 pm (UTC)

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hi i like it a lot!
I like fdr the best, and fdr is also my fav prez.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-16 07:41 am (UTC)

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yeah, i'm partial to that stuff about the field of roses.

i'm not sure if i have a favorite president. i kind of have a soft spot for eisenhower. and jimmy carter.
[User Picture]From: [info]trembyle
2008-10-16 12:57 am (UTC)

>$

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beautiful, you should illustrate the future presidents too
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-16 07:42 am (UTC)

i will if mario writes it.

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thanks lj trembyle

i just sent a comic (not the president comic) to your possibly defunct address in iowa city today
[User Picture]From: [info]anisetheghosted
2008-10-16 02:47 am (UTC)

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WITH THIS COMIC advances in civilization have been made. Of this, I am certain.

O TR. You sure do love your parties doncha.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-16 07:59 am (UTC)

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ha! i am sure happy to help advance civilization. avanti!
[User Picture]From: [info]abouthipsanck3s
2008-10-16 03:43 pm (UTC)

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I stumbled across this & I must say, quite good!
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-16 06:45 pm (UTC)

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Thanks a lot!
[User Picture]From: [info]user_undefined
2008-10-16 06:16 pm (UTC)

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This is freaking ridiculous. And AWESOME. Holy crap. Nice work. :D

Sad that I missed getting it before it sold out!
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-16 06:44 pm (UTC)

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Thanks! :D

It didn't actually sell out -- I don't know how to work Etsy and somehow only listed one copy when I've got, like, thirty.
[User Picture]From: [info]iangil
2008-10-17 05:31 am (UTC)

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Amazing, wonderful. I wish I had more good things to say, but as the night deepens my vocabulary is the first thing to go. This is no fault of your comic, only my poor timing. I guess I just want to say that I enjoyed it very much, will read again fast shipping AAAAAAAA++++++
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-17 10:43 am (UTC)

thanks

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you forgot to mention the like-new condition ;)
[User Picture]From: [info]danielbarlow
2008-10-17 06:10 pm (UTC)

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Wow, Wonkette linked to mini-comics today! Hi. Your comic is great. Greetings from Vermont.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-17 08:00 pm (UTC)

say, were you @ mocca?

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wonkette???

holy crap man! and look, they think i'm either kate beaton or brad neely. that's pretty rad.
[User Picture]From: [info]avvocati
2008-10-17 06:44 pm (UTC)

Thanks!

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Thanks for a hearty laugh on this Friday afternoon.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-17 08:13 pm (UTC)

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glad to be of service!

siete veramente avvocati?
[User Picture]From: [info]some_noah
2008-10-17 06:58 pm (UTC)

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Amazing. I'm so glad someone else knows about ol' Lincoln.
[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-17 07:59 pm (UTC)

the secret life of the five dollar bill

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i personally had no idea until drawing this comic! see, "art" is educational
[User Picture]From: [info]neweasterner
2008-10-17 07:52 pm (UTC)

Great!

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Hi! I own a comic shop in Somerville, Mass. I'd love to get 10 of these. (and a few of your other, as well.)

Mail me at welborn at mac dot-com. :)

[User Picture]From: [info]maria_sputnik
2008-10-17 08:13 pm (UTC)

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terrific! i'll email you.
[User Picture]From: [info]slutbunwalla
2008-10-18 10:52 am (UTC)

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I like the hello kitty tank. I like how although the text says an insignia, the tank is actually shaped like hello kitty.

From: (Anonymous)
2008-10-18 03:39 pm (UTC)

presidents

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this is so good!
nice job
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