The Newt, Land Cruiser and Antique Farmall Tractor of the Ozarks

Blog by Erik Weems, graphic artist, website designer and sometimes cartoonist. His design business site is here. All pages site map.

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Recent Posts:

Joe Kubert Tor 2008 The first issue of Kubert's revived primitive hero

High Cost of Four Color Fun Reaction to Tom Spurgeon's essay on the state of comic books

Madame Sans-Gene Illustration and review of the 1894 play starring actress Gabirlle Rejane

Spirit #15 Art by Paul Smith. DC Comics

Flipbutt the Art Critic From July 7, 1894 issue of PUNCH Magazine

Map The Ozark Plateau and Lake System

Ice Cream A Short History

Nick Cardy Oversize Batman Page

Smithsonian Museum of American Art in the old Patent Building in Washington DC

Ulysses Grant and his Generals, large "meeting" portrait

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ONLINE COMICS

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Superhero Character from my old comic books

The Newt Superhero
He's a speciman, isn't he.

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Ozark Tractor

The page on the Farmall Tractor, along with the
8 over large photos, has moved to its own page.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Girl in Richmond Virginia

Ink drawing colored in Adobe Photoshop
Girl Richmond
Drawing from April 2008. See some other Richmond drawings.

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The Amazing Land Cruiser of the Ozarks

Land Cruiser 3

See additional photos and some very large images

Land Cruiser 2

Friday, May 2, 2008

Madame Sans-Géne

From PUNCH magazine, July 7, 1894.

Illustration of the actress Gabirelle Rejane in her garb for the comedic role of Madam Sans-Géne in which she is a former washerwoman who meets the Emperor Napoleon, and she has an old unpaid bill from when the ruler of Europe was still but a mere Corporal.

The play from 1894 was quite a hit and made Gabrielle Rejane quite popular in France, England and the United States (the play reached New York in 1895). The review from Punch Magazine from July 7, 1894 doesn't give very high marks to the effort written by Sardou and Moreau, but even a cursory search on the internet shows that the fame of the comedy has lived on, at least in the historical sense.

Be sure to also see the image enlargement of the fine illustration of Gabrielle Rejane.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Flipbutt the Art Critic

Click to enlarge.
From PUNCH magazine, July 7, 1894.

Monday, April 28, 2008

The rain swollen Arkansas River

Photo of the Arkansas River from bridge passing over into Little Rock from the north. Heavy rainfall has been pushing the banks of the river higher and wider.

[Below] Beaver Dam, near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, April 27, 2008
Beaver Dam Arkansas

Traveling through Arkansas, especially the Ozarks of the Northwest, and saw the phenomenally high water levels that have accumulated from rainstorms. The interlocking dam system that chains together the Ozark lakes had been near capacity in mid-April. This from the Little Rock, Arkansas CBS KTHV website:

"Water from the Norfork Lake rushes through the dam's spillway at a rate 83,000 cubic feet per second. That's enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool each second, and it's all flowing into the White River, heightening fears of future flooding for those living along its banks."

Map of the Ozark Plateau; The Six White River Basin Lakes (click to enlarge)

Six lakes comprise the White River Basin. The first is in Northwest Arkansas with Beaver Lake. It flows off the Ozark Plateau into Table Rock, which flows into Bull Shoals Lake. Three other lakes are on tributaries of the White River; Clearwater Lake in Missouri, Greers Ferry Lake in Cleburne County, Ark., and Norfork Lake near Mountain Home, Ark.

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From my April trip to the Ozarks - -Waiting to board Delta:
Delta Airplane