Above: the driveway with the garden to the right in the middle-ground.
The garden as of early October. How does your garden grow? Not much! Here’s the last of the tomatoes, peppers, runner beans, etc. The first frost warning is this week. Leaves and pine cones are falling. It’s dark before 7pm. By next month, it’ll be dark before five.
A cartoon by Robert Minor for The Masses magazine.
Derf Backderf has a new graphic novel, The Dissidents, which is the true story of a group of political cartoonists that were jailed for their cartoons. More than once. It all happened just over 100 years ago and they all worked at The Masses, a magazine with a small circulation but it had a big impact.
Here's Derf talking on The Chris Hedges Show.
Some sketches from the sketchbook today. Above is our late, beloved Dexter, who showed up one day in the woods and (after months and months of wooing) became a happy indoor kitty. He was a sweet, bit orange fellow.
And here are some more, drawn from travels or from imagination. Some well executed, some not -- because that's the way it is with a sketchbook.
In winter, I shovel paths to the bird feeders. It's good cardio!
This is a true story. One day I was calling some people I know and no one was picking up. When I called a cartoonist (Bill Woodman) he picked up on the first ring since he was, of course, right there in his studio, drawing. He was a great cartoonist and much missed. We could chat for a long time.
Some years back, my Mom was clearing out her art studio. She handed me a sketchbook. "Could you use this?" she asked. Yes, of course. The first thing I drew was a self-portrait of me laughing at my own drawing, and my then-studio car Dropcloth, who is much missed. (So is Mom.) Like George Booth told me, If you laugh at your own drawings, then you are on to something. Ha ha. Well, here are some drawings -- drawn from imagination and life. Some funny, some not, some just slice of life observations. A lot are not meant to be seen and are just doodles. One is a full-fledged story. I have paperwork to do for now, and a couple of presentations I need to prep, so I thought I would just offer up some more of my sketches, which I don't share enough. Now I need to go.
Above: the deli counter at Heinen's in Westlake, OH.
These guys were way into sharing recipes on that bumpy bus.
Art critic John Berger back in 1972. (Check out his Ways of Seeing series.)
Cats in fezzes. Just because.
I have been doing paperwork today and if there's one thing about being self-employed, there's a lot of paperwork to do from time to time. While I usually work with no music/TV/media on, the quiet got to me and I looked around for something to play while I was adding columns of numbers. I was able to listen to the 35th anniversary Star Trek VI panel discussion, which was a lot of fun. Actually, it was too much fun. It was so distracting that I could not listen and work at the same time so I had to save it to listen in the car for a drive to the dump and grocery store.
From the description:
THIS VOYAGE, ASHLEY E. MILLER (writer, Thor, X-Men: First Class) and special guest SCOTT "MOVIE" MANTZ target that explosion and fire with STAR TREK VI writer/director NICHOLAS MEYER, producer/second unit director STEVEN-CHARLES JAFFE and composer CLIFF EIDELMAN as they talk about the challenges and triumph of making The Undiscovered Country and sticking the landing. Hosts: MARK A. ALTMAN (showrunner, Pandora; author, The Fifty-Year Mission) | DAREN DOCHTERMAN (Associate Producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Director's Edition) | ASHLEY E. MILLER (screenwriter, Thor, X-Men: First Class; showrunner, DOTA: Dragon's Blood)
More Henry comic strips by Carl Anderson from February 1935. Previous parts:
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