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The CLAW December’s Open Swim will feature White Elephant Gift Exchange

"Robot gets Sweater" by Mark Monlux

The CLAW Open Swim is open to anyone who likes to draw cartoons, and hang out with the CLAW. In short membership is not a requirement for attendance. However, December’s Open Swim will require anyone attending to bring a gift for a White elephant gift exchange. If you do not bring a gift, you will be scornfully kicked out with much derisive laughter and catcalls.

Rules for the White Elephant Gift Exchange:

1. The gift must be “absurd”.
2. If you buy the gift, you must not spend more than $20.

Upon arrival your thoughtfully wrapped gift will act as your ticket of admission. All gifts will then be placed on the gift table. Numbers will then be drawn. Participation will be in order of number drawn. The first up will have free choice from the table. They have the option of leaving their chosen gift wrapped. The following participants can choose to steal a gift from those before them, or take a gift from the table. Those who have a gift stolen from them can steal a different gift, or take a gift from the table. A gift can only be stolen three times. A gift cannot be stolen back from a previous owner. Once the exchange is completed all gifts that are still wrapped must be unwrapped. The Trading, purchasing, bartering or auctioning of gifts after the exchange is allowed.

Location: The Mandolin Café in Tacoma
Date: Wednesday, December 30th 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.

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John Layman and Mark Rahner sign their comics at Comic Evolution

John Layman and Mark Rahner sign comics for Mark Monlux

John Layman and Mark Rahner sign comics for Mark Monlux


John Layman and Mark Rahner are a couple of the creative professionals behind “Chew” and “Rotten”. For those of you who enjoy these comics of a detective who can ‘see’ the history of the items he eats, and zombie infections in the old west, this was the perfect time to (snicker) meat those involved.

The signing team was intrigued, bemused and pleased to receive the latest copy of CLAW-tu Barada Nikto.

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ZINE ALERT! Santa’s CLAW Gift Catalog

claw zine

Issue No. 005, Courtesy of the…
CARTOONISTS LEAGUE OF ABSURD WASHINGTONIANS!

Available at these “REAL AMERICA” Tacoma business establishments:

  • What Shope? (seems to have a real connection with our target audience)
  • KING’s Books
  • Mad Hat Tea Co.
  • Tacoma Art Supply
  • Urban Xchange
  • Puget Sound Pizza
  • Crescent Moon Gifts

coming soon….

  • Red Hot
  • Origins 21
  • Comic Book Ink?

yet, AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD ON CLAW ZINE ARCHIVE!

Back issues of our “Terror of the CLAW” Halloween Zine Edition have been stuffed into the City Arts bin at the University Washington bookstore.
* Issue NO. 5 is carefully designed to offend everyone!

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