Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Lafe

Tintype. Written on album sleeve: Lafe

Charles LaFayette Reeves, probably taken during the "lost years," 1872-1884.

Robbie Dupree Sings Bacharach


Not to be confused with the late Robert "Kool Man" DuPree

A Klaus Nomi Moment

Sid, Jennie

Tintype with "Sid, Jennie" written on album sleeve.

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.

Jerry Butler Sings Bacharach

A Klaus Nomi Moment

Monday, December 9, 2013

Sid

Written on album sleeve: Sid

Sidney A. Reeves. I'm guessing this was taken in the early 1890s in Centralia, Washington.

Dakota Staton Sings Bacharach

A Klaus Nomi Moment


Phone photo 3056


Unidentified


Printed on verso: H.A. Seymour, Photographer, Corner Courtland and Francis Sts., Jackson, Mich.

Phone photo 3055


Michael Henderson Sings Bacharach

Phone photo 3054

Charlie says, "You shoulda seen the other guy!"

A Klaus Nomi Moment

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Phone photo 3053

Every time it rains, it rains

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."

Phone photo 3052

Hettie

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. 

 

Phone photo 3051

Charlie

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

Who these people are I do not know and cannot guess. Photo probably taken in Michigan, but possibly in Centralia, Washington.

The Carpenters Sing Bacharach

A Klaus Nomi Moment

William Reeves?

A tintype supposedly identified in error on album sleeve as "W.F. Reeves," but somewhere long ago a relative said this was William Reeves (1821-1891?) and his wife Ivey/Lucy Jane (Miller) Reeves.

William was an older brother of my great-great grandfather, Walter Francis Reeves.

The Three Degrees Sing Bacharach