About Theresa (T-) McCracken
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Theresa (T-) McCracken is a cartoonist, writer, historian and naturalist. She lives with with her dog, Sammy, outside of Waldport, Oregon where, alas, a single woman has a better chance of being abducted by space aliens than of finding a compatible single man who speaks in something other than monosyllables AND has his own teeth. Dentures are OK. He just has to own them. They can't be on lay away at Wal*mart.
As a cartoonist she struggles to meet the humor needs of the nation, creating cartoons and drawing illustrations for hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Of course, she's drawn for the New Yorker . . . although they've yet to have the good sense to buy any of her work. Hundreds of others, though, ranging from the Saturday Evening Post to the Oregonian to small trade journals, have. She targets her work to publications' specific audiences, be it anemic agriculturalists or zoologists in zero gravity
Books McCracken's Cartoons are In
Magazines McCracken has Drawn For
She also leads Road Scholar (formerly known as Elderhostel) groups on nature hikes on the Oregon Coast and the Redwoods in Northern California.
Want a few laughs & learn about the local flora, fauna & history on your next visit to the central Oregon coast? Rent her through Rent a Naturalist
The second most extraordinary accomplishment in her life was hitchhiking from Cape Town, South Africa to Kisangani, Zaire, and from there taking a barge 1,500 miles down the Zaire (the Congo) River to Kinshasa.
The most extraordinary accomplishment in her life was living for years in a leaky twenty-foot trailer--much of the time with no electricity or running water--while building her cabin.
Most of her writings are humorous articles, but sometimes she does something on a serious topic. Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult (Caxton Press, 2002) has everything a good read should have: sex, mass insanity, the downfall of prominent families, murder, and sensational court trials. And it's all true. Many of descendants of the people in the story are her friends and neighbors.
She first wrote about Edmund Creffield and his flock of Holy Rollers while working for the U. S. Forest Service and was compiling anecdotes about Northwest history. That research was part of the reason she was named "Pacific Northwest Region Forest Interpreter of the Year" in 1994.
Theresa (T-) McCracken 890 North Bayview Loop Waldport, Oregon 97394 (541) 351-1433 mchumor@pioneer.netWant to Know More about T- McCracken (a.k.a. Me)?
One of the great thing about the internet is that you can now bore complete strangers with your year-end letters. In my blog I posted all the letters I've written since 1987. They’re perfect reading for masochists and insomniacs.
2014 Highlights: A Terrible, Horrible, Horrendous Year
2013 Highlights: Hauled Aboard a Boat in Norway Like a Limp Whale
2011 & 2012 Highlights: There Were No Highlights
2010 Highlights: Embracing My Dotage and Decrepitude
2009 Highlights: Dead Water Pumps and Doing France With a Three-Year Old
2008 Highlights: India on less than $5 a Day
2007 Highlights: Flaming Trucks and Exploding Vacuums
2006 Highlights: 2 Weeks in a Norwegian Jail & Mushroom Humor
2005 Highlights: An Oregonian, A Hungarian & A German Walk Into a Bar
2004 Highlights: Family and Women Airforce Service Pilots
2003 Highlights: The Spotted Owl and the Pussy Cat
2002 Highlights: The News from Waldport
2001 Highlights: Babies, Stud Muffins, and War
2000 Highlights: Getting Paid to Not Play a Guitar
1999 Highlights: Cleaning Whale Snot off a Ship
1996 Highlights: Into the Woods with Juvenile Delinquents
1995 Highlights: A Hum Drum Day on the Oregon Coast
1994 Highlights: An Almost Normal Life for a Naturalist
1993 Hightlights: The Hardest Part about Building May Be Getting A Loan
1992 Highlights: Modern Day Homesteader in a Leaky Trailer
1991 Highlights: A Drive Across America & Nature Walks for the Disabled
1990 Highlights: A Hung Jury or a Hostage Crisis?
1989 Highlights: An Off Beat Dominican Republic Vacation
Cartoons From a Slightly Warped Mind
Now available as an eBook for $2.99 and as an autographed paperback for $7.50.
It's a collection of 100 of my most popular cartoons, including Lemming Suicide Hotline, Dorothy selling the Tin Man to a recycling center, and Druids changing to Daylight Saving Time.
Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult
Now available as an eBook with lots of extras for a measly $3.99!
Amazon.com *** iTunes It's my first book of literary nonfiction published by Caxton Press. It's a story that has everything a good read should have: sex, religious fervor, mass insanity, the downfall of prominent families, murder & sensational court trials. AND it's all true. To learn more about cults and the book, go to Holy Rollers
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yachats-history.com
is a website I'm developing that has lots of "Then and Now" photos, stories about Native Americans, homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and colorful characters who have lived, worked and played in the quirky town I work in, Yachats, Oregon.
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T-shirts, mugs, cards, posters, prints & more.
With print on demand you can have cartoons printed on just about anything. Visit my two online stores.
Magazines I've drawn for?
The New Yorker, of course ... although they've yet to have the good sense to buy any of my work. Hundreds of others have, from the Saturday Evening Post to The Oregonian to large publishing houses to small trade journals. Let me draw a few cartoons for you. No matter what, I hope you get a few laughs as you go through my site.
Use Cartoons in Presentations.
Public Speakers, even when speaking on serious topics, break the ice with a joke. Cartoons do the same thing--and you can't "tell a cartoon wrong.Use Cartoons in Textbooks, Advertisements, Brochures, Web Sites & Blogs.
Cartoons & humorous illustrations grab people's attention and therefore increase your chances to convey your message.Use Cartoons on T-shirts.
Events can't be called true events unless they have official T-shirts, and t-shirts with personalized cartoons on them are the T-shirts preferred by 9 out of 10 people stranded on a desert island.
Personalized Cartoons: An illustration of anyone can be Photoshopped into any cartoon on the mchumor.com web site. This is a great CHEAP gift.
The perfect "gift from the gang" at retirement or going away parties is an original cartoon of the guest of honor.
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How One Cartoonist's Mind Works: How to create cartoon ideas.
Information For Gag Writers
The Komic, a Graphic Novel in the Making
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Theresa (T-) McCracken
890 North Bayview Loop
Waldport, Oregon 97394
(541) 351-1433
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