Members were respected enough cartoonists to be invited to handle the politicians Washington's 12th State Legislature, and even though only one was officially doing the work, looking at the book reveals the hand of three others.

[3] Club members Renfro, W. C. McNulty (Von-A), Frank Calvert, and James S. Ditty all took a hand in creating the book.

[4] In The Cartoon: A Reference, the Seattle Cartoonists' Club included themselves among the Wall-Street-style banking, real-estate and business pirates.

[6] The men published an article in the Seattle Times about a competition they were having with a small local newspaper editor, H. A. Chadwick, over the idea for what became their first cartoon book.

[6] Miss E. A. Thompson had come to town to organize the creation of a vanity cartoon book, having done so in San Francisco and Portland.

[6] The cartoonists who made up this earlier association were Frank Calvert, John R. Gill, C. H. Dickson Jr., E. F. Broze [sic.

He did continue with the "stolen" book idea, publishing Men Behind the Seattle Spirit - The Argus Cartoons, 15 July 1906.