Bisti Badman Meets the Old Vaquero Grinnin' Like A Jackass Eatin' Prickly Pear

 April 24, 2025

   Sometimes the magic works and I'm not sure I even know why.

   Found this half-finished Whip Out in an old sketchbook (August 1, 2023) and for some reason I saw it with new eyes. I dig the stylized Sugarloaf and the twinkle in his eye and the muy Mexicano color scheme. Gave it a couple tweaks and here you go.

Daily Revised Whip Out:

"Old Vaquero Grinnin' Like A Jackass Eatin' Prickly Pear"   

I kindah think this could be the cover of the next installment of Old Vaquero Sayings.

Bon-jore amigo!

Daily Whip Out: "Bisti Badman"

Their first mistake was sending him to boarding school. Their second mistake was assuming he didn't learn anything. Their third mistake was thinking he would be easy to catch once he got out.

   This just in from the Billy the Kid's Historical Coalition. 

Michael Antrim kin to Billy the Kid?

(well, those front teeth are certainly related!)

   In the next issue of True West (July-August) you will meet the kids who discovered this specific overbite.

   I received the following question from Diane Smith of the Arizona Historymakers Foundation:

How did Robert Allen Bell become Bob Boze Bell?

   Hmmm, I'm not sure my late father—Allen P. Bell—is going to like the answer to this one.

"The father washes onto the son. He lives inside you as an aspiration, a disappointment, or a fear. Afraid you will never be like him or afraid you will be; he is there in the bones of your emotions. In the voices in your head. In your expectations of yourself. In the shadows of your weakness or strength. No matter how good the relationship, there is a tension between father and son."

—Boyd Varty, The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life