Feb. 29, 2008 at 12:21am

But Who Will Watch Tacoma Cartoonist RR Anderson?

During the last year, Tacomans have sat by and observed RR Anderson as he has executed one prank after another: hijacking the Tacoma Art list serve, observing and mocking Tacomans and creating characteratures of our elected and civic leaders.

All fair and legal I suppose. 

But who is watching RR Anderson?  While many of us have been reduced to cartoon and action figures, RR scribbles away as we squirm like omebas  in his petri dish.

No doubt, the technology I use is brutish, yet, I have discovered a few things.

First, the Tacomic that he supposedly publishes "exclusively" on online i Feed Tacoma blog Tacomic is now also found on flattened wood pulp in the Volcano:

Yet, there are not just RR's Tacomics in the Volcano, RR also has ads in Volcano to recruit people...into...well cartooning or something.  Hard to tell.


Here, playing on their mental vulnerability, RR attempts to recruit the legions of Pierce County's mentally depressed and ill.  Does he realize the Volcano might be read by the legions of people at Western State Hospital?

I have to wonder what would happen if someone actually called 238-6718? 

Perhaps a caller is really "hopeless" and is at their end of their rope and is able to make one last call before ending it all.  But who do they end up talking to?  A cartoonist!

As dangerous as the earlier ads were, they at least made some sense in the same way recruting someone for a cult makes sense:sifting through a bunch of depressed and distressed people in an attempt to acquire followers.

In the above ad,  RR Anderson expounds on usefulness of the "internets."   Even if true, however, I don't know why a reader would be motivated to call the number in the ad.

It gets weirder:

On his website, RR recently suggests that compiling all of the Volcano HFW ads together will make some sort of combined message. 

But now, weeks into publishing, no one likely even knows that the ads were being produced.  Its too late now.  I doubt anyone has all of the pieces made to date to make sense of it, yet RR will no doubt keep making puzzle pieces which can never be combined.

Final Observation

The above piece indicates that RR Anderson will be having a "Tacomic Party" at The Helm?  Let's get real.  How can an event be centered around a few cartoons?  I am not even sure cartooning is an art!  (The Helm isn't the Mineral!)