Clean Sweep
posted by John M Crowther @ 8:15 AM
Cartoons, cartoons, cartoons.... John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey
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 *).
Friday, November 06, 2009
Cartoons, cartoons, cartoons.... John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey
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 *).
About Me
- Name: John M Crowther
- Location: Los Angeles and Rome
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.
Previous Posts
- 3 Candles
- Peace, Dude
- The Greeks Had a Word For It
- The Daily News, Whatever
- Freud Gags, Sunny Side Up
- A Different Drummer
- Rotten to the Core
- The National Yawntime
- Image Is Everything
- War of the Words
5 Comments:
Yes I wonder at the demise of concision in language. It's so much easier to say "now" instead of "at this point in time" but on the flip side [somehow] the latter less poetic. We've come a long way since Austen's "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn" These days we can poke people with one simple click on Facebook! LOL Oh... I dunno.
Um... that should be the latter (more) poetic. It's been a long week. ;-)
Another winner, John C.
"Clutter is the disease of American writing." -- William Zinsser, p.7, On Writing Well
You had it right the first time, Jean. To take a cue from Andrew, verbosity is the enemy of poetry, which is all about concision. Somehow Yeats's "We sat together at one summer's end," loses something when it becomes "we sat together at that point in time at the end of summer." [Forgive me, just being silly.]
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