ALLRED ARTIST RETREAT FOR SALE ON OREGON COAST!

We moved to the big city a couple years ago and don't get out to our lake house on the Oregon Coast as much as we'd like to anymore.  So we're putting it up for sale, and at a "chance of a lifetime" price of $399,000.  We hope the next owners will get as big a kick out of it as we did.  Have a look:

Get your mail by boat in paradise on the Oregon Coast!  Boat and road access (though a 4-wheel drive vehicle wouldn't hurt).  This is the perfect place to escape and let your creativity soar.  Most of X-Statix and MADMAN Atomic Comics was drawn and colored here.  The GEAR also recorded most of their second album here with not a single noise complaint off-the-grid.  On Tenmile Lake connected to the famous Oregon Dunes and coast near the resort town of Lakeside, Oregon, about halfway between Washington and California.  Completely fenced/gated to the lake, four bedrooms (2 w/King-Size beds), four walk-in closets, two full baths, spa, decks galore (including built-in trampoline/play area & beach deck),  flat screen TVs, satellite, hi-speed internet, new appliances, new roof, stone floors downstairs, cherry floors upstairs, kayaks, custom furnishings included.
If you'd like to see this beauty in person (photos don't come close to doing it justice),
call Agent Russ Hendrickson's cell# 541-404-7595 or
LAKESIDE REAL ESTATE: 541-759-3685
Tell 'em The Allreds sent ya!
MLS# 12454014

DUNE ADVENTURE IN OUR FRONT YARD!

Our friends and fellow cartoonists, Joe Quinones & 

Maris Wicks, came to visit us on the coast.  I dragged 

them out in the rain to traverse the dunes that separate 

our lake from the ocean.  Laura was smart enough to 

stay home and make her delicious stew and Jello cake

for us.  Thick mist hid my usual landmarks that would 

lead us to the "tree tunnel".  There is a thick wall of 

forest right before you get to the beach.  The Parks

Department has carved out a tunnel that is very hard to 

find.  If you miss it, you wont be reaching the beach.

Well, you'll see we found it, but it was flooded.  Some 

chilly wading was required.  I was happy to discover 

that some walking bridges were just added to get us

out of the deeper parts of the flooded trail.  Good times!

Check out their art blogs: http://joequinones.blogspot.com/

http://www.dotsforeyes.blogspot.com/

ALLRED MAGIC!

Bestest buddy, Darwyn Cooke, suggested I add some

"behind the pages" kind of stuff so I threw together this

little slide show compiling the last couple years. I mostly

use a Flip Cam now, so I don't have single shots of a

lot of the folks and experiences I'd like to show here.

But for now here are some snaps of our adventures with

friends and family including doing THE Casa Bonita

and Red Rocks with first collaborator Steve Seagle,

tearing up Montreal with Dar & Mar, Courtney Taylor

and Laura in the electric Tesla sports car, recording

"Nasty Snack" at the Dandy Warhol's Odditorium,

hiding in a dark scary bar with Al Columbia, a post-

Barcelona reunion with Craig Thompson and Kelby,

in Manhattan with the Bonds, the David Bowie bust I

made and gave to Shelly Bond, and drinking some

Moloko Plus with dance machine and Droog David Mack.

Also childhood heroes, Peter Brady, Batman, and a Monkee!

Look for Paolo Rivera, Joe Quinones, Maris Wicks,

Scott Adsit, Brian Huberd, Eric Stephenson, Joe Keatinge,

our kids, our kid's kids, Karen Berger, Dr. Ben Saunders,

Bernie Mireault, and a guy named Jamie S. Rich who

frightens children even though he smells just like candy.