The Diogenes Club
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Lafe
Charles LaFayette Reeves, probably taken during the "lost years," 1872-1884.
Sid, Jennie
Siblings Sid and Jennie Reeves, born in 1872 and 1869. This would've been taken during the 1872-1884 "lost years" where I cannot account for their whereabouts. What is intriguing is that these studio props show up in a few other tintypes with different people in the album.
According to family legend, their father, William Francis "Frank" Reeves served as a civilian scout for the Army on the Western frontier at some point in those dozen years, and the family sort of moved around on the edge of the frontier behind him. If that is so, these two children with serious expressions waiting by an empty chair seems a little heart breaking.
One family story tells about the Mother and her three Reeves children basically scraping by in a modest cabin in the dead of winter out in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas while Dad was gone on a long scouting mission. The local tribe took pity on the family and left a freshly killed deer at their doorstep to help them get by.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Sid
Sidney A. Reeves. I'm guessing this was taken in the early 1890s in Centralia, Washington.
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.
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