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 *).
It's hard to imagine, in this age of jumbo jets and men floating around out in space, that it was only 81 years ago today that Charles Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget airport outside Paris, thus completing the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic airplane flight. Consider too that some of the time he was flying just feet off the surface of the ocean. Awesome!
posted by John M Crowther @ 8:34 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:
hahaha love the cartoon!
I would have loved to have lived in the time of the transatlantic airships/dirigibles... how cool were they? They were the epitome of adventure (and ultimately horror) Humankind was terribly ambitious back in those first heady days of air travel.
My bad. I misread your piece and was thinking Hindenburg not Lindbergh. The imagination leaped in and there you have it. Jumping the gun as always! Sorry John.
In Lindbergh's day there would not have been ocean going emergency rescue helicopters either. Makes the feat all the more a terrifying (and yet exhilarating) prospect.
And to think, Jean, he didn't even have a front windscreen for forward vision. He had to look where he was going through a periscope.
My awe for these men and women of the early aviation age knows no bounds. I get a nose bleed when I climb up on the first rung of a ladder. (grin)
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