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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
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Above top: Saturday night’s Gays in Comics panel featured both LGBT comics creators and nongay creators whose comics work includes LGBT characters. On the panel from left to right are yours truly, Tim Fish, Dan Parent, Charles "Zan" Christensen, Geoff Johns, Marjorie M. Liu, Daniel Way, and Jim McCann.
Above inset: Andy Mangels (organizer and moderator of the Gays in Comics panel), Roger Klorese and me seen posing during one of my signings at my home away from home on the Comic-Con floor, the Prism Comics booth.
I got home from Comic-Con International in San Diego a week and a half ago. How was it? The short answer is: I had loads of fun.
Want more details? Sigh. Maybe later. This week I’ve been swamped. But I can at least decorate today’s blog these snapshots taken during the five-day extravaganza by Prism Comics Event Chair Ted Abenheim.
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Above: Ted (in the orange tee-shirt) handed off his camera to someone else briefly so that he could be in at least one shot himself. Tireless Ted took way more photos than I have room to show here; if you want to see a few hundred more of his Comic-Con images, check out these Flickr pages.
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Above: Me enjoying one of the numerous interesting conversations I got to have with readers of my stuff.
Some of you are doubtlessly wondering how Eddie is doing now that his Great Kidney Adventure is several weeks behind us. Well, he is now on his feet again and as of today has even had his ban on driving officially lifted. Hooray!
Eddie still has sporadic stabs of abdominal pain to deal with, especially when he bends or twists in inadvisable ways, and his energy level has yet to fully rebound. But on the whole my hubby seems to be progressing as well as anyone who has had a surgeon slicing him open and jerking his vital organs out of their normal locations recently has a right to expect.
And at least he can get out of the house on his own like a grown-up again.
Mark Martin is a super-talented Berkshire County cartoonist whose work I had already begun admiring decades before I learned that he and I are fellow Birminghamians who at this point in our lives live not that far from each other. (See the blog entry I posted three years ago about my first face-to-face encounter with Mark.)
If you live in or near Pittsfield you’ll be interested to know that Mark’s cartoons are currently being featured in an exhibit called Comic and Cartoon Art Comes Alive: The Art of Mark Martin, which is now on view at the Storefront Artists Project (124 Fenn Street) in Pittsfield. If you’re like me and find it gratifying to spend time with an artist who really knows how to go crazy on paper, you should be sure and check out this show before it closes on August 29.
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Above: Mark gets zany for Facebook.
At the opening reception of Mark’s exhibit show, as it happens, I found myself unexpectedly invited to participate in an on-location live streamcast of Geeks With Issues that had set itself up in the Storefront Artists window. A lively discussion ensued, largely about southern accents and automotive mishaps rather than cartooning.
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Above: The handsomely designed new collection of Denis Kitchen cartoons and the cartoonist himself..
As an old underground comix creator who got his first big break thanks to a publisher named Denis Kitchen, I find The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen exhilarating. I’ve long known that Denis was a terrific cartoonist whose talents were being overshadowed through most of his adult life by his acumen and taste as a publisher—not only of the underground comix that put him and his company, Kitchen Sink Press, on the national map, but also of beautifully packaged compilations that showcased classic mainstream cartoonists like Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, and others. And his role in introducing new generations to phenomenal creators like Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman is legendary.
For all that, this book is a reminder that the guy can draw really, really funny pictures. Thank you, Dark Horse Books, for pulling together Denis’s obscure but fascinating paper trail of cartoons into such an enjoyable coffee table art book. It makes me want to be a cartoonist again!
Adding to the fun is Charles Brownstein’s interesting essay about Denis’s life and career, which filled in many gaps in my understanding of the man’s remarkable professional arc. Besides telling me lots of new stuff about Denis himself, Brownstein’s profile amounts to a rich nostalgia trip for me personally, a reminder of all the youthful excitement I felt when my characters first began gaining national visibility in the comix that Denis put out.
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Above: Blake Bell peppering me with questions during my "Spotlight on Howard Cruse" event.
Back in 2002 Blake Bell authored a book of comics-related conversations called "I Have to Live With This Guy!" The unusual thing about Blake’s book was that this time it wasn’t us cartoonists being interviewed; it was our spouses. And Eddie was the star of Chapter Ten.
A number of phone conversations between Eddie and the author went into the composition of that interview, and I even spoke to Blake a few times myself. But I never met the man face-to-face until two-weeks ago, when he served as the interviewer for my "Spotlight on Howard Cruse" program at Comic-Con.
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Above: Blake Bell peppering me with questions in San Diego.
It was great getting attention lavished on me in front of an audience by an interviewer who was as knowledgeable about my work as Blake is. But I was also aware that Blake’s main mission in San Diego this year was promoting his newest book, a biography of comics great Bill Everett.
I don’t have a cover shot of Fire and Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics handy, unfortunately, but you’ll find a great picture of it here. As you can see, it’s due for release soon.
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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Above: An illustrated ode to Eddie’s kidney created by our friend Juliana in advance of the organ’s surgical removal this morning
As some of you who’re reading this already know but as most probably do not, Eddie had one of his kidneys taken out this morning along with its associated adrenal gland. His other kidney and gland are in fine shape and, as best the doctors can tell, will be fully up to the task of doing all the kidney duty that my husband requires for the foreseeable future.
I am writing this note during a quick visit to our home (which handily enough is roughly five minutes away from North Adams Regional Hospital) while Eddie is still in recovery. Within an hour or so he’ll be moved to his room on the third floor where he’ll be spending a couple of nights before returning here to recuperate.
The surgery went well, the surgeon has assured me. And that’s about all the detail you’re going to get from me since I need to return to the hospital now that I’ve had a bite of lunch.
I’m not going to fill this blog with much additional medical talk since that’s not its purpose. But for those who want to keep up with how Eddie’s doing I’ll be posting periodic reports on this Eddie Update web page that I’m setting up right now. Check back there from time to time if you want to keep up with my hubby’s progress during the next few days.
Take care, and remember never to take a good kidney for granted. They’re ugly but useful.
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
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I got some advance copies last week and as far as I’m concerned it looks great. Alison Bechdel has contributed a very kind introduction to it, too. Meanwhile, Alonso Duralde of the gay-culture site Queer Sighted has just posted a new interview with me to mark the occasion. Thanks, Alonso.
And if you read that interview you’ll be among the first to learn about some new developments on the Wendel front. Since they won’t come to fruition for a year, though, I won’t bother feeding details to you now.
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That’s right. You guessed it. But what else?
The three of us will be joining forces to present a group slideshow in the Bronx at 8 PM on June 16. It’s called "Serious Funnies" and it’ll be happening at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (acronymically known as BAAD!) at 841 Barretto Street. Oh, and did I mention that admission is FREE?!
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Above: One of the new images from my new slideshow adaptation of my 1983 comic strip "That Night at the Stonewall."
Ours is but one night’s installment of BAAD!’s Out Like That! 2010 Festival, which is in turn part of NYC’s citywide Gay Pride Month celebration. So get those Metrocards ready for a workout, kids; BAAD! is gonna be rocking this month!
I’ve been devoting a lot of time recently to the creation of nineteen drawings to be projected during Pulitzer Prizewinner Paula Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, a play that’s now in rehearsal under the direction of Wendy Walraven at Main Street Stage here in North Adams. The show will open on June 18.
Below: One of my completed Baltimore Waltz drawings. This one depicts a street hot dog vendor peddling his wares in front of the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore.
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I recently happened upon the mildly risqué parody sketch you see below. It was one of my roughs submitted to Playboy in 1979, back when they were hitting me up for spoofs of mainstream comic strips for the magazine’s "Playboy Funnies" section.
Several of my parodies were accepted, finished, and printed in the magazine. This Mutt and Jeff riff was one of several proposed additions to the series that fell by the wayside, however, after threatening noises from newspaper-syndicate lawyers led Playboy to back away from the whole idea.
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
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Now, while he’s unpacking, I’ll show you a few of the snapshots my globetrotting hubby brought back to North Adams with him this morning.
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You’ve seen the drawing before, but while Eddie was overseas DC Comix got around showing me what the new Vertigo edition of Stuck Rubber Baby is going to look like once the title and other cover copy has been added (see below).
The June release ain’t that far off. I’m getting excited.
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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If you go to the web site for this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego and scroll through the list of Special Guests who are slated to attend, you’ll find me among them.
What this means is that Eddie and I will get flown to San Diego on the convention organizers’ dime and provided with lodging during the famous event’s four days of fun and craziness. During that stretch of time I’ll be holding forth at some panels and programs as well as signing copies of the newly re-packaged hardcover edition of Stuck Rubber Baby (which should be out by then from Vertigo) as well as copies of my new collection From Headrack to Claude, which you should be able to peruse or purchase at the Prism Comics booth if I work things right.
And speaking of Prism: many thanks, Prism folks, for putting a bug in the guest coordinators’ ears about bringing me to California this year. It’s an exciting prospect as well as a daunting one. The last time I was in San Diego was at the 1996 incarnation of the Con fourteen years ago. It was a madhouse then and I’m told it’s grown much larger since. Yikes!
But if any of you hardy readers of this blog are planning on braving the crowds at this year’s Comic-Con yourselves, do keep an eye out for me and say hello if fate causes our paths to cross amid the surging throngs—or more realistically, if you’re able to buttonhole me during a book-signing or at one of the events I’ll be scheduled to participate in.
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Some New York City friends of ours engineered a clever apartment swap with Parisians who want to spend a year in the Big Apple, so as long as they’ve got sleeping space available for a guest, they’ve offered us free lodging for a few days if we can make the trip.
I can’t go myself because I’ve got stuff to do here in North Adams, but Eddie is already packing his bags and will be on a plane from Boston come Saturday.
Assuming that his aircraft doesn’t cross paths with any airborne lava from that volcano that’s currently erupting in Iceland, where he’ll be stopping over before embarking on the last leg of his journey to France, he’ll soon be taking in the sights on the Champs-Élysées and wearing a beret in the shower. Will I still know him when he returns, or will it me some "Europeanized" stranger I’ll be encountering making eggs for me every morning?
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Above: One of the runways Eddie’s plane will hopefully avoid at Reykjavík Airport.
(Just kidding. Kudos to photographer Michael Ryan and the U. S. Geological Survey for this cool photo of an Icelandic volcano in action.)
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Remember my novelist friend Stephen Solomita? He’s at it again!
Mercy Killing was last week’s recreational reading indulgence for me. As usual Steve’s twists and turns kept me guessing and his ending blindsided me most wickedly. Along the way, I should add (and there’s no spoiler involved here), I learned more about arsenic than I ever expected to know.
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In solidarity with other North County good-film-lovers, Eddie and I recently posed for the photo you see above, which was taken by Jeanne Marklin (and slightly augmented by an impertinent local cartoonist who shall go unnamed).
The picture was taken in support of the current fundraising drive for Images Cinema, the only year-round, nonprofit, independent film house in the Berkshires. It’s located at 55 Spring Street in nearby Williamstown.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
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Yes, all of the months of blood, sweat, and tears that I’ve been devoting to nurturing my shaggy, shoulder-length tresses have now been wiped out in one fell swoop by the need to look clipped and clean for tonight’s opening performance of Main Street Stage’s Second Annual Short Play Festival.
Well, the good news is that my dear departed mom can now stop spinning in her grave for a while. The sweet lady thought in all innocence, I suspect, that she would be able to rest easy with regard to my wayward hair choices once she had successfully pulled out her big guns (maternal tears) back in 1968 to overrule my desire to be the first senior at Birmingham-Southern College to attend his graduation ceremony wearing a Beatles haircut. But alas, her years of torture were only beginning.
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Above and at right: Harold and Emma Tittleton ponder the inexplicable presence of a clown in their living room in Greg Freier’s play "We Appear to Have Company."
My cast-mates, captured in these evocative dress rehearsal photographs by Lisa Remillard, are Jackie DiGiorgis and Andrew Davis.
Ours is only one of five one-act plays that will be treading the boards this weekend and next at Main Street Stage’s intimate home base in North Adams. (Click here for more details.)
That’s March 5, 6, 12, and 13, to be precise. The shows start at 8 PM. Do drop by if you’re in the area.
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That University of Massachusetts panel about comics that I’ve been telling you about unfolded enjoyably on March 2 as scheduled, I’m happy to report.
In my last blog entry I mistakenly predicted that N. C. Christopher Couch (the tiny figure at the podium in the photograph below) would be serving as the panel’s moderator, but after Chris introduced the panelists that role was actually played by James Hicks (the tiny figure on the right below), who in addition to fulfilling his professorial duties in the schools Comparative Literature Department serves as an editor of The Massachusetts Review, the UMass-based literary quarterly.
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Besides having fun hanging out during the panel and afterwards with Gary Hallgren (the tiny figure in the middle above), who is a friend and colleague from way back, I had the pleasure of finally meeting and quickly becoming buddies with our co-panelist Sophia Wiedeman, writer and illustrator of The Deformitory. (Sophia is the tiny figure sitting between Gary and James above.) Sophia’s creativity has been appropriately recognized and rewarded by the Xeric Foundation, which provided funding for the dreamlike Deformitory, from which the panels below are excerpted. Sophia’s book is available in comics shops, sez Sophia. |
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For some reason squirrels seem to have played a disproportionate role in my creative life (see the numerous "Squirly & Earl" cartoon panels I threw at readers of this blog for a while).
Fortunately I like the little critters. So does Lulu the Dalmatian, although I get the feeling her motives are less humane than mine.
Anyway, note the newly imagined squirrel below, which found its way into the logo I designed this week for an upcoming ecology-themed Children’s Fair at the First Congregational Church in Williamstown.
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North Adams-based comics reviewer John Seven recently interviewed me about the upcoming re-issue of Stuck Rubber Baby (expected this June). The resulting Q&A was published this week in the online branch of Publishers Weekly.
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Above: A pre-winter preview of coming attractions. Sigh.
My Dr. Seuss Letters of Note
"Those silly boys, breaking their backs shoveling snow out there!" thinks Lulu. "Don’t they know that if they just sit by the window looking beautiful like I’m doing, somebody will go outside and do it for them?"
Last week Eddie and I received this year’s round of holiday cards from my pal from Detroit John Benson, whose beautifully crafted linoleum-cut prints have been adding to the atmospheric majesty of Michigan’s Renaissance Festivals for years and whose artistic contributions to AIDS-related causes have saluted AIDS activists and commemorated those lost to the disease since the epidemic’s early days. As the link above indicates, John’s cards can also be found among the many gems offered by the Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte, Michigan.
I’ve been intending to call attention to John’s work in this blog for quite a while, and since he’s on my mind as I write this, let’s make it today!
In keeping with sensibilities John has borrowed from centuries past, he doesn’t maintain his own independent web site, which makes me feel a little guilty about tantalizing you with tidbits of his work here without being able to link you to a lavish presentation of his prints. But if you want to learn more about the range of his artistry, just email him directly and express your interest.
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Much as I appreciate the cathedral-ready symmetry of many of John’s prints and cards, the perverse side of me loves it when he gets grisly!
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Just for fun, John and I collaborated in 1993 on this limited edition print depicting two angels in a state of, uh, sublime arousal.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Then on Monday I found email in my inbox from James Vance, author (with illustrator Dan Burr) of the award-winning graphic novel Kings In Disguise. James was giving me a heads up about his blog’s November 16 post, in which he comments generously about next year’s re-issue of Stuck Rubber Baby and reminisces about the link we share to my 1989 short play About Scott. The play, a theatrical tribute to Broadway dresser Scott Wiscamb, who was the first person that Eddie and I knew personally to be struck down by the epidemic, was written at the request of my college mate Lyn Spotswood, who wanted something to direct in Birmingham for that year’s International AIDS Day. Soon thereafter James wrote and asked if he could perform, for an AIDS benefit in Tulsa, OK, a stripped-down, one-man version of what in Lyn’s and my hands had been a multi-media, puppetry-enhanced pageant of sorts with masks and projected images of ACT-UP demonstrations interspersed with pop recordings and music by a live jazz ensemble.
What’s impressive was how moving James’ shorter and far simpler rendition of About Scott turned out to be. I know. James sent me a videotape.
A handsome trade paperback reprint of James and Dan’s graphic novel, which first saw print during the late-1980s under the auspices of Kitchen Sink Press, has recently been published by W. W. Norton, by the way, and a sequel by the same team — also from Norton — is now on the horizon.
From My Photo Archives It Came:
Could I Really Have Ever Looked Like This??
Eddie and I finally succeeded in luring cartoonist Jennifer Camper up to North Adams for a visit earlier this week. Jennifer was one of the earliest of the Gay Comix contributors, which means we’ve known each other and been buddies for something like 28 years now.
The weird thing is that Jen was already a grown up when we first met for lunch at a Seventh Avenue diner in New York — and yet today she still looks like she’s maybe twenty-two. How is this possible?
Jen’s longtime sweetie Emmalee couldn’t make the trip so she brought along another young cartoonist, Carlo Quispe (see below, with me and one of his drawings). If you’d like to see the online video of Laura Flanders‘ GritTV interview with both Jen and Carlo (as well as San Francisco’s Erika Lopez), click here.
Eddie and I enjoyed taking Jen and Carlo around to see some of the cool attractions North Adams has to offer (besides Mass MoCA, I mean), including the top of Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts, and the fascinating collection of barber chairs (plus a dentist’s chair) that has begun drawing tourists to the waiting room at T&M Auto on Curran Highway.
Above: Jen, Carlo, and Eddie pause to seek shelter from Greylock’s mountaintop chill. Below: Afterwards, at T&M Auto…
What fun we have in the Berkshires!
Now For Some Thank-Yous
I’ve been honored of late by two friends and fellow comics creators who’ve seen fit to include laudatory mentions of me and my work in their respective blogs.
Above: a photo of my mom and me taken on March 18, 1966, the day before I boarded a plane for a six-week visit to San Francisco.
As you can see, my penchant for plaids, about which I have been teased by no less a personage than Alison Bechdel, had already been established by then and has continued uninterruptedly to this day but for a temporary side trip into paisleys during the late-’60s and half of the 1970s.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
The exhibition of commercial artifacts bearing Whitman’s image, called Walt Whitman: The Commercialization of an American Original, is curated by a longtime collector of Whitman memorabilia named Ed Centeno, whom I met in 2005 when he commissioned a drawing from me showing Whitman’s spirit hovering over my characters Wendel and Ollie as they read the poet’s classic Leaves of Grass and snuggle. (Scroll down this blog post to see the drawing I’m referring to.
The exhibit opened on May 24, which means I’m being decidedly less than prompt in telling you about it. But if there’s a chance you’ll be touring Long Island soon, you’ll be relieved to know that Ed’s fascinating artifacts (and my own original artwork) will continue to be on display until August 31.
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Ed Centeno shares his knowledge about Whitman with exhibition attendees.
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Ed poses with my framed original.
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The drawing I did for Ed four years ago showing Wendel and Ollie communing with the poet.
A side benefit of participating in my college alma mater’s Alumni Art Exhibition earlier this summer was being made aware of the fascinating, endlessly inventive, and humor-filled artwork of fellow Birmingham-Southern grad Don Stewart, who contacted me to suggest I send a comics page south to be part of the group show.
It wasn’t exactly my intention to bail out of blogging for an entire month, but that seems to be what I’ve done. There’s something about applying the final touches to big projects that totally consumes your attention and often leaves no room at all in your head even for putting together the simplest kinds of sentences describing those activities for loyal blog-readers to peruse.
In this case I’ve been polishing up graphics, finalizing page layouts, and completing supplementary text for a new book collection of old gay-themed comic strips that should become available for online purchasing within the next week or three, depending on how swiftly the wheels turn at Lulu.com (the same print-on-demand self-publishing site that I used last year to put out Felix’s Friends), and how briskly my application for ISBN registration gets processed.
The new book will be called From Headrack to Claude, and since I’m telling you this in a relatively G-rated blog environment I must add this note of caution for the curious: many of the comics compiled in this book were originally drawn for adults-only underground comic book and are definitely not recommended for the faint of heart. Or for children.
Anyone who wants to be among the first to know when From Headrack to Claude becomes available can pay regular visits to the book’s Facebook page. (You don’t have to be a Facebook member to view this page, but Facebook members who join the group will receive an actual notification when the book comes out.)
Now to catch up on some of the things that, if the book hadn’t kept me so distracted, I would have blogged about during the last month.
Walt Whitman: The Poet as a Commercial Icon
In times past, the face of 19th Century Poet Walt Whitman may have appeared on as many commercial product packages as Betty Crocker. He was just so darned folksy-looking and confidence-inspiring that you couldn’t help wanting to eat any beans that came in a can with his face on the label!
The box of tea you see below wasn’t one of those products, of course. It’s just a fictional Whitman product that I was asked to invent to serve as a promotional graphic for an exhibition of bona fide Whitman products now on display at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site in West Hills, NY.
Browsing through Don’s image-rich web site will give you a taste of what this guy’s fertile imagination has to offer, but to fully grasp the details or his visual wit you may want to track down his beautifully produced hardcover book (see above). It’s the newest addition to my own library and I’m happy to report that there’s a gem on every page.
Don was a surgeon by profession, incidentally, before he strayed from the medical fold and turned to producing art full time. Below is his visual reflection on the life he left behind.
Believe it or not, Don executes his subtly rendered drawings not with high-end graphic tools but with lowly ballpoint pens! I’m in awe! Who knew so much graphic potential resides in that Bic you do your doodles with while some customer service number has you on hold?
Let’s Get Candid
Our neighbor Zach Noel whipped out his cell phone and snapped this shot of me and Eddie as we left for the airport to fly to Portland in May. Taking photos with telephones! Making fine art with ballpoint pens! What is this modern age coming to?
As you can see, my Ben Franklin hairstyle is coming along well. If I persevere in nurturing this Founding-Father affect, my portrait may well soon qualify for display on U.S. paper currency of some obscure and rarely used denomination.
Zach and his girlfriend Lydia Reyburn graciously moved into our house temporarily to provide on site dog-sitting services while we were traveling, thus sparing Lulu the canine disorientation that goes with extended stays in a kennel.
And while I’ve got your attention, I should let you local readers of my blog know that artwork by Zach will be part of an upcoming group show at Elf Parlor (303 Ashlund Street). The opening reception for the show will be next Tuesday, July 21, from 8-10 PM.
Below left: Zach’s telephone captures Lulu during an uncharacteristically (when she has a camera pointed at her) tranquil moment. Below right: Neighbor dog Picalilly pays Lulu a courtesy call.
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Well, I was going to blog at more length today, but time has run out and Eddie and I have to pack for our trip to Portland and San Francisco that begins tomorrow.
I’ll report back as soon as I after May 20, when we’ll return to the Berkshires and resume our New England existence. Hang loose!
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