Amocat Cafe to host R. R. Anderson 'Tacomic' art show in March

Tacomans are invited to celebrate five “long crushing years of R. R. Anderson’s hyper-local, underground, political cartooning history” during an event on Thurs., March 1 at 7:30 p.m. to kick-off a month-long exhibit of Anderson’s work at Amocat Cafe. The art show will feature 40 original Tacomic cartoon pencil art cells, the world’s largest Tacomic (over eight feet tall), interactive speeches with real politicians and/or serial candidates, glow-in-the-dark T-shirts, free latex gloves, and Executive Excellence party bumper stickers.

If you follow local politics, you are probably familiar with Richard Ryan Anderson, the self-titled ‘DIY Cultural Arts Specialist.’ His ‘Tacomic’ political cartoons have appeared on FeedTacoma.com every Tuesday since March 2007. Anderson is part performance artist, part political cartoonist, and part provocateur, and an iconoclast master of a strange, funny, and often perverted world where he says and does things that many Tacomans only wish they had the nerve to do themselves. Anderson is also the author of “100 Tacomics: The Secular and Apolitical Cartoon Life of Tacoma and her Moral People(s), Vol. 001.”

Amocat Cafe is located at 625 St. Helens Avenue. More information is available online here.