| The last man to lose his head, I suppose he deserved it |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|12:09 am] |
A Scottish cartoon, since I am back home for the holidays.
I'm well acquainted with the tune "Lord Lovat's Lament," since you hear it around these parts every time anyone has to pick up a fiddle and learn something. But you know, it's one of those tunes you know so well, you pay no attention to it, it's just there in the back of your head.
Then one day, I was looking up a bunch of works by Hogarth (the best) and came upon this portrait of 'Lord Lovat'. The lovely old tune and that devily face, they didn't match. So I wanted to learn more about him!
Lovat (Simon Fraser, born 1697 - there are about a million Simon Fraser Lord Lovats) really epitomizes how reading Scottish history can make you want to tear your eyeballs out, or laugh because it's nearly a farce it's so nutty. Either the people involved are disastrously loyal, or disastrously duplicitous. Everything is a disaster, but it's a hell of a ride. |
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| Familiar Faces |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|08:50 pm] |
Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return.
Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna |
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[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:45 am] |
if you are in dallas i will be there seeing family for christmas and doing a signing at lonestar comics on dec. 23rd. okay
i will be closing book orders on thursday morning i think so i can finish shipping and not think about that over christmas. i will reopen them early january
animal tropical - 20 miles |
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| that's a good one old buddy |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|10:50 pm] |
I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it. |
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| The Old Fox |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|03:34 pm] |
Death of military personnel: my comics specialty. Anyway, I like Montcalm. He wasn't, I don't think, as talented as his young rival James Wolfe, but he was among the best they had and a well experienced, hard working man who did his job as best he could. Montcalm had a hot temper and didn't like Quebec, but he tried to save it, even though he was almost always at heads with Vaudreuil the Canadian born Governor- to whom he was supposed to defer. Vaudreuil was experienced in North America and cared passionately for Quebec, but had never really encountered modern European warfare, and didn't understand it. Montcalm hated the corruption in New France, thought the war was useless, and tried to leave but wasn't allowed. In his final letter to his wife he writes, "I think I should have given up all my honors to be back with you, but the king must be obeyed; the moment when I shall see you again will be the finest of my life. Good-bye my heart, I believe I love you more than ever." I like Montcalm.
Wolfe, of course got the most famous painting in this country's history done up for him some years after the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm got one eventually. It's ok. |
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