The Diogenes Club
Monday, December 9, 2013
Unidentified
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Favorite Movie Quotes: Running Scared
"Can I have your attention, please? This block is being designated a Neighborhood Watch Area. There's a guy up here named Snake. He's wearing garage-sale clothes and the top of his head looks like a parakeet. He also has fifty thousand dollars in small bills in a briefcase. As his neighbors, it is your responsibility to make sure there are no suspicious characters or evil perpetrators lurking in the area who would seek to do him harm. Again, fifty thousand dollars in small bills, tax free, in a briefcase right in this apartment. Which has really cheeseball locks! You can bust your way in there, bop him on the head, take the money, nobody would know! So it's up to you. Thanks a lot, have a good day."
White Buffalo Gazette
When I was in Butler, PA last summer I had a chance to meet or re-meet local Keystone State cartoonists Tom Rehm, Buzz Buzzizyk, Wayno and Mike Hill. And Chrislip even came from the wilds of Cincinnati. In fact, I believe I even saw the mysterious Borpo Deets, who showed up at the Future Tenant show in Pittsburgh wearing an obvious ill-fitting toupee and an unintentionally humorous false beard in a comical effort to conceal his identity. He had a glow in the dark necktie that had the words. "Will you kiss in me the dark, baby?" When I looked at him and said, "Oh, you must be the infamous Borpo Deets," he swiftly made some feeble excuse about an alligator in his SUV that needed tending, darted out, and never returned to the show.
Anway, the above promo is the siren call for Obscuro cartoonists to show their stuff. All you comrade weirdo cartoonists should heed this invite. Buzz Buzzizyk has a special eye for the iconoclastic and revolutionary comic art.
Backdrop, 1904-1916 / by Jeff Zenick
One of Morty the Blog's favorite cartoonists, Jeff Zenick, has just published a very original work called Backdrop, 1904-1916. Wonderful character studies here by a top-notch artist!
It is 40 pages, enlarged digest (folded legal size). This should be considered a major self-pub effort and something of a milestone in terms of breaking new ground by making historical sources a work of comix art. I am very impressed.
Jeff did not assign a price, but I would send at least five bucks for this outstanding work. He can be contacted at: 645 McDonnell Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32310.
Phone photo 3050
Charlie's front paws, the terror of birds and rodents
Oh, sure, I could put a little bell around his neck to warn his prey. But y'know, cats gotta do what they do. Plus, the other cats on the block would say, "Hey, here comes that sissy with the bell!" My big, wooded yard is somewhat Darwinian.
Unidentified
William Reeves?
William was an older brother of my great-great grandfather, Walter Francis Reeves.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Mrs. W. F. Reeves, Lafe
This is my great-great grandmother with her firstborn, Charles LaFayette Reeves ("Lafe"), who was born in 1862, placing the date of this portrait in the Civil War era.
Lydia Melissa Upham was born in upstate New York on Sept. 6, 1842. Apparently she was known as Melissa. In 1861 she married Walter Francis Reeves (known as "Frank") in Michigan. I am guessing it was shortly after this photo was taken that Frank enlisted in the Union Army.
The Reeves family migrated to Washington Territory in 1889. In a letter Melissa wrote back home to Michigan from Centralia, Washington in 1891 we learn she had been a victim of typhoid fever in 1888 and had never been the same since. I had heard one reason the family moved West was the hope the climate would be better for her health.
Melissa died at age 50, Sept. 25, 1892, in Centralia, Washington and is buried there in the Pioneer Cemetery.
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Queen
Jennie, Lafe
Charles LaFayette Reeves and his sister, Jennie Melissa Reeves. Jennie was my great-grandmother and the curator of this album.
Jennie was born Sept. 22, 1869 in Lansing, Michigan. Before accompanying her family to Centralia, Washington Territory in 1889 she briefly taught school.
She married Theodore Jacob Hoss in Centralia, Feb. 20, 1890. They were something of a power couple, both of them deeply involved in politics and social groups. Although Centralia was and remains a very conservative town, Theodore and Jennie were outspoken progressives.
Jennie died in Centralia on Valentine's Day, 1952.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Morty Comix # 2676
Morty Comix # 2676 was placed behind the canvas of a painting in a pizza joint/sports bar where I enjoyed a great sub sandwich for lunch. Tumwater, Washington.
Lafe
It would appear this tintype was also taken during the 1872-1884 Reeves mystery years where I did not find any documentation on their location, only unconfirmed stories.
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