I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
When I was in Zimbabwe many years ago, back when Robert Mugabe was in the early stages of his presidency, I met a white man who had fought on the side of Rhodesia against the independence movement. "We came in second," was how he explained the loss, which at that time was freedom's gain. Even then the people were poor, but gentle and respectful. The biggest danger was the tigers that roamed the countryside
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:14 AM
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Artist, writer, filmmaker, actor. Wrote "The Evil That Men Do" starring Charles Bronson. "Missing in Action" starring Chuck Norris. Performed one-man play "Einstein" off-Broadway and in Europe. Tours US with "Meet Mr. Wright," his one-man play about Frank Lloyd Wright. Art exhibitions in Italy and U.S. His work as a cartoonist has been seen in MAD magazine. Illustrated the children's books "How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy" and "The Man In the Red Bandana" about his nephew Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, written by his niece, Honor Crowther Fagin, Welles's sister. Author of novel "Firebase," published in UK by Constable and US by St. Martins Press. For many years an avid student and reader of Tarot. Performs weddings as a Los Angeles County Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage.
4 Comments:
Is it just me or does your Mugabe look a bit like O.J.? Not to impugn your drawing, you understand. You're much more adept than I could ever be. And besides, the comparison is not exactly inappropriate.)
It galls me that we unilaterally invaded Iraq alledgedly because "Saddam was not a nice person", but we ignore an even nastier culprit here. Too bad Zimbabwe isn't sitting on a sea of oil. Same with the Sudan. How massive must genocide become before the imaginary political borders cease to be an impediment to humane intervention. As a species, we're rather pathetic. George Carlin, where are you when we need you? (I expect he'd say "Nowhere!")
Tigers? In Africa?
O.J.? Hmmm? You may be right, ixthvs. I keep thinking he resembles someone else but I can't for the life of me think who it is.
Wasn't it Carlin who said that if man was the highest order of being in the universe then the universe aimed low and settled for little?
Whoops, anon, lions.
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