My first exposure to the art of James Bama as a kid were his paintings of breathtaking quality on the boxes of Aurora model kits.
Category: Cartooning
Not Guthrie, Not Joplin
Cartoonist Jimmy Johnson has had some of the same sorts of struggles with his WordPress installation that I did. He’s working on a new and improved Arlo & Janis.com, and for now I have taken the site off my Links section.
Until Jimmy has the site back online, I recommend reading the origin story for his comic strip’s namesake characters. Click the pic to get started on the series.
Oh, Bama!
A friend of James Bama reports that the great illustrative painter has passed away, the day before his 96th birthday. Often working from photographs, Bama had a more realistic style than his contemporary, Frank Frazetta. He’s best remembered by comic book fans for his dynamic Doc Savage paintings, when the pulp magazine stories were reprinted as paperbacks, beginning in the 60’s.
Easter Greetings
Fantasy Masterpieces
I don’t know when this is from, or what the occasion was for Frank Frazetta to wear a tux, but it must have been before his first stroke.
Back in the USSR
With everybody talking about Russia, R. Crumb plays selections of Soviet-era 78s.
https://eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/index.php/2022/04/01/otrs-128-r-crumbs-record-room-part-57-old-soviet-central-asian-music/