The Garden As of Mid-May

Here are a few pics of the garden as of now. This is the second year that there's had to be fence up around the garden thanks to the deer. 

 We put in a half-dozen tomato plants last night. All of the boxes were refreshed with a mixture of alfalfa meal, bone meal, kelp meal and garden lime last month. 

The buried metal colanders have decomposing compost that will leave nutrients in the soil.  I placed a small mound of mulch where every tomato was planted to help resist the brown leaf disease that's common with tomatoes. It's in most soil and it's in ours. It turns the leaves brown and then they become brittle and fall off just as the tomatoes are beginning to ripen. Not good. 

More vegetables to be planted. Not sure what. Contenders: cucumbers, peppers, scarlet runner beans. 

The owl house is, so far as I can tell, still vacant. 

Comic Book Legend Jack Kirby Honored with NYC Street Renaming

Jack Kirby Way was unveiled on the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side, where he grew up. CBS News New York's Cindy Hsu reports.

 

Video: Leonard Starr - Cartoonists and Illustrators Party - December 11, 1965

From the Thomas B. Sawyer YouTube page:

"8mm footage of a party given by Leonard & Betty Starr at their Central Park West apartment. The guests include many celebrated artists, writers, National Cartoonist Society/Society of Illustrators members & other personalities (w/spouses) of that era, including Mell Lazarus, Bill & Gloria Overgard. Alfred Andriola, Otto Soglow, Warren & Nadine King, Holly & Tom Sawyer, Jerry Robinson, Len Steckler, Howard Post, Frank Bolle, Irwin Hasen, John Prentice, Tex Blaisdell, Bobbie Shaw, Don Philips. Frank & Barbara Jacobs, Lee Falk, & others. 

"Camera: Tom Sawyer (to request a set of head-shots identifying most of the attendees, email from the Contact page at www.thomasbsawyer.com)"

 

 

This is the only video at the Thomas B. Sawyer channel and the link to his site does not work, sadly. There is no sound. What a nice slice of those times despite not being exactly sure who's who all the time. 

I'm not sure, but suspect that the movie was shot by the illustrator Thomas B. Sawyer, whose 2022 book, The Art of the REAL Tom Sawyer, is highly recommended.

Pop-up Book Artist Colette Fu Inspired by her Travel in China & Chinese-American History

 

Colette Fu talks about her personal journey to become a pop-up book creator and engineer in this wonderful video from Craft in America:

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Dog and Cat Cartoons 1949 - 1966

Dogs and cats. Living together. Mass hysteria!

Courtesy of gag cartoon collector extraordinaire Dick Buchanan, here are twenty magazine cartoons about cats and dogs that he culled from his vast Greenwich Village-based clip file. 

 

Thank you and take it away, Dick!

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DOGS AND CATS
(1949 – 1966)

Dogs and cats play a big part of the lives of many Americans.  Some folks like cats while others like dogs.  Some like both.  For what it’s worth, the Cartoon Clip File’s office pet is our goldfish, Benchley.

We laugh at our pets.  We’re never quite sure whether or not they laugh at us.

This time it’s our turn to laugh at them.  Here are some cartoons about our animal friends, the dog and cat . . .

DOGS


1.  HANK KETCHAM.  Collier’s, circa 1951.

2.  RAY HELLE.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 11, 1949.

3.  JACK TYRELL.  1000 Jokes Magazine  September – November, 1956.

4.  PHIL INTERANDI.  This Week Magazine  December 4, 1960.

5.  DICK SHAW.  Collier’s  May 20, 1950.

6.  BOB KRAUS.  1000 Jokes Magazine  Summer, 1951.

7.  JOHN GALLAGHER.  The Saturday Evening Post  March 30, 1957.

8.  VIRGIL PARTCH.  Collier’s  March 19, 1949.

9.  EDWIN LEPPER.  The Saturday Evening Post  November 2, 1963.

10.  VAHAN SHIRVANIAN.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 27, 1957.  

 CATS

1.  TED KEY.  Collier’s  December 16, 1950.

2.  GEORGE WOLFE.  American Magazine  August, 1950.

3.  BO BROWN. American Magazine  September, 1950.

4.  THE BERENSTAINS, JAN AND  STAN.  American Magazine  July, 1953.

5.  LARRY REYNOLDS.  Look Magazine  January 17, 1957.

6.  JOHN NORMENT.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 20, 1957.

7.  MORT WALKER.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 30, 1949.

8.  TOM HENDERSON.  The Saturday Evening Post  September 27, 1958.

9.  HERB GREEN.  The Saturday Evening Post  May 4, 1957.

10.  BILL HOEST.  The Saturday Evening Post  May 21, 1966.

  -- Edited from a blog entry that originally appeared on November 14, 2019.

From the Dick Buchanan Files: More 1960s Cartoons from PUNCH

Dick Buchanan has scanned in over a dozen great cartoons to share, this time from his collection of the British PUNCH magazine. Thanks and take it away, Dick:

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More CARTOONS FROM PUNCH--1960’s

Here are a few more cartoons by those funny British chaps across the pond. These cartoons are clipped from issues published in the 1960’s.

LARRY. Terence Parkes’ minimalist approach and fluid style was often compared to his friend, Bill Tidy.   Punch July 17, 1968. 

  

ARNOLD F WILES. Punch February 16, 1966.

BERNARD HOLLOWOOD.  A Punch cartoonist since the early 1940’s, Hollowood became Punch editor in 1958. Punch May 25, 1966.

MICHAEL FFOLKES.  (BRIAN DAVIS) Versatile Punch cartoonist, his work also appeared in The New Yorker. Punch March 27, 1974.

BILL TIDY.  His comic strip The Fosdicks, a parody of The Forsyth Sage was a huge success. Punch September 13, 1967.

NICHOLAS BAKER. Punch July 5,1967

J.B. HANDELSMAN. Punch April 13, 1968.

JAN VAN WESSUM. Punch August 28, 1968.

HEATH. Punch December 13, 1967

LESLIE STARKE.  Starke’s impeccable brushwork also appeared in The New Yorker. Punch March 2, 1966. 

BRIAN COOKE. Punch February 16, 1966.

HARRY HARGREAVES. Hargreaves specialized in wordless cartoons featuring birds and other small animals.  Punch July 19, 1967.

MIKE WILLIAMS.  Punch May 29, 1968.

BILL TIDY.  Tidy was one of the founders of the British Cartoonist’s Association. Punch November 22, 1967.

NORMAN THELWELL.  One of Punch’s best, Thelwell published more than 1500 cartoons and 60 covers over his Punch career. Punch February 23, 1966.

-- This has been a rerun of a blog entry that originally appeared on November 7, 2017,

The Garden As of May 1, 2026

The garden as of May 1st. It’s still near freezing some nights, but summer will eventually make it here. Nothing planted in the raised beds just now, but I’m going to change that very soon.

 

The metal colanders are for vegetable scraps from the kitchen. They'll decompose and add nutrients.  This is in addition to refreshing the boxes with an alfalfa meal mix.

 

 

 

 

Bought some pansies over at McKenzie's Farm this morning.