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This drawing was inspired by Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant (King Features). Each panel in Foster’s strip was a meticulous and beautiful work of art.
www.bpib.com/illustra2/foster.htm
www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/pvaliant/about.htm

Felt tip marker on poster board, 28″ X 22″

Adam’s rib: God’s first attempt.

She probabaly didn’t last through the first tailgate party.

After several millennia…not much has changed.

Jeg er rygg, y’all!

Progress is not always a good thing. The important thing is our attitude toward it and the ability to make the most of it.

OK, I admit it. This is a joke that has to be explained to almost everybody. Lots of people have heard of Attila the Hun but don’t know much more than that he was one bad dude. Fewer people know who Pope Leo was except that he must have been a pope or something.

The facts are…way back in 452 the King of the Huns was ravaging and pillaging Europe and was determined to have his way with Rome which was undefended because the Roman army was licking its wounds from a previous battle with Attila a year earlier in Gaul. The Romans had managed to thwart Attila’s march through western Europe but had to have the help of several Germanic tribes who feared the Huns more than they hated the Romans. After that big battle those tribes moseyed off leaving the Romans in no shape to face Attila alone.

So, instead, the Romans sent out the Pope. After Leo met with Attila, the Hun said to heck with it and went back home. What really happened is mostly conjecture. Since the Romans were the only ones writing stuff down all we have are their versions which include, among other things, the appearance of saints and angels. Therefore, I offer another possible rationale. It might be as equally plausible as any other except for the fact that those types of playing cards weren’t around yet.
Oh well.

I’m not sure why I did this. The thought just came to me.

This came from a larger photo of the Brau-Etzel family of Round Top, Texas taken around 1906-07. The two boys are my grand-uncles, my grandmother’s brothers. Some creative compositional changes were made.

Acrylic on canvas. 30″ X 24″

One of my heroes, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian who could not ignore the abuses by the Nazis. He left Germany and spent time in England and in the United States but returned to his homeland to participate in the resistance. He was eventually arrested in 1943 and executed just before the end of the war.

The three colors represent those of the German flag.

Acrylic paint on paper. 10″ X 14″