Dan The Man Ages & The Genesis of The Old Vaqueros Book

 November 19, 2024

   Every year, on this date, a certain art director is the same age as me for about 30 days.

Dan The Man Harshberger, turns 77 today

   And, speaking of amazingly talented, graphic designers, look what the old Kingman Bastard came up with for our friends in Texas. 

Sky High Scout Cover Design

by Dan The Man

   Speaking of striking book covers, my collaboration with the Boys down at Cattletrack has resulted in a limited edition collector's edition of Old Vaquero Sayings. Here's how this came about. Three years ago, Mark McDowell suggested we team up to do a book of my Old Vaquero Sayings. Here is how he pitched it to me:

"It should be funky and look like it was printed on an ancient printing press found in the back of an abandoned cantina in Sonora, Old Mexico."

—Mark McDowell

Mission Accomplished

   Meanwhile. . .

In the Walk Where They Walked Zone:

(Photo by Stuart Rosebrook)

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom can keep the obsessive compulsive historian from his rounds."

—Old BBB Saying