Rube Goldberg on National Public Radio

[Above: co-author Paul Tumey with The Art of Rube Goldberg]

Nice coverage by our favorite radio network, National Public Radio, on the new book The Art of Rube Goldberg.

Here's the Link!

The Art of Rube Goldberg-- more news and links!

The new book The Art of Rube Goldberg is getting some buzz and Morty the Dog stalwart reader Paul Tumey (a Goldberg and Screwball Comics scholar and a contributor to the book), sends along these links worth checking out:

'Art of Rube Goldberg' more than crazy contraptions
LA Times

The Art of Rube Goldberg Book Party
Photos by Guy Coombs

The Art of Rube Goldberg
Pinterest

TV Interview with Jennifer George 
(author and Rube's granddaughter)

The Art of Rube Goldberg Celebrates Chain Reactions
Wired

Rube Goldberg's marvelous machines
Boing Boing

The Art of Rube Goldberg-- Outtakes and an Interview!

Paul Tumey sends us some inside info and a link for the upcoming book, The Art of Rube Goldberg:

Paul writes: "Here's an 'outtake' from the book -- a 1917 rare color Puck page from a set of three Rube did for Puck magazine. The other two are published in the book."

I'd suggest clicking on the image and then enlarging it due to my space limitations here. 

Paul writes: "Here's something else that wasn't included in The Art of Rube Goldberg due to space considerations, a newspaper column written by Rube. Many people don't know this, but Rube published thousands of newspaper columns and articles, engaging in a dual career as both a cartoonist and a writer."

Here's a link to an interview with Charles Kochman, Editorial Director of Abrams ComicArts, about the book.

Thanks Paul! Can't wait to see the book!

Paul Tumey, "Wotta Rube!"

 Paul Tumey with original art by Rube Goldberg

 Paul holds a copy of The Art of Rube Goldberg

Paul in Abrams NYC office working on the book with Goldberg's granddaughter, Jennifer George, and fellow book contributor Carl Linich.

Paul Tumey sends news and photos telling us about the new book The Art of Rube Goldberg, to be released by Abrams in mid-November. Amazon has the ordering information.

Paul is one of a half dozen essayists in this book. For those of you who don't know, Mr. Tumey maintains an excellent website devoted to the art of screwball cartoonists, with Rube Goldberg being the chief screwball.

 

I had the pleasure of meeting Paul in person when he braved the wilds and along with some other screwballs attended the McCleary Mini-Comics Day a couple years ago. Here's part of the group pictured in Elma, where we ate dinner: taken by filmmaker (Bezango, WA) Ron Austin with Jim's camera: L to R: Jim Gill, Morty the Dog, Paul and Reid Tumey, Frank Young.

 

How to Clean Your Driveway the Cartoonist Way

It should go without saying this method was inspired by Rube Goldberg:

Here is how I clean my driveway. First, I wait until we get a lot of rain, more than usual. Then, when the middle of the carport develops a leak right over my car, Nadine, I know the the time has arrived for action.

A look at the carport roof reveals a body of water that could support some fairly good sized fish. Or a caiman.

But instead of calling the Board of Geographic Names to give this body of water an official designation, I reach in and pull the dead leaves away from the sole drainage outlet.

 Gallons of water cascade out with such force that the poor old gutter pipes can't handle it

So as a result my driveway gets a big wash, cleansing it of those cherry, plum and hawthorn blossoms.

The end.

Phone photo 2441

This tsunami warning station looks like something Rube Goldberg would've invented

Ocean Shores, Washington

Paul Tumey's Screwball Comics

Paul Tumey just posted an overview of my work on his website The Masters of Screwball Comics. I just nip at their heels, but it is so flattering to be classified as a cartoonist carrying on the traditions of Rube Goldberg, Milt Gross, Gene Ahern and Bill Holman. Of all of them, Holman was probably the one I had the most exposure to in my Portrait of the Cartoonist as Young Dog period in the 1960s.

Thank you Paul. It's all a mystery.