tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36901762012-02-22T15:14:47.441-07:00If you've ever wondered what it's like to run a magazine or how crazy my personal life is, be sure to read the behind-the-scenes peek at the daily trials and tribulations of running True West. Culled straight from my Franklin Daytimer, it contains actual journal entries, laid out raw and uncensored. Some of it is enlightening.  Much of it is embarrassing, but all of it is painfully true. Are you a True West Maniac? Get True West for LIFE...Click here!Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comBlogger3582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-56531164856422770302012-02-22T15:13:00.001-07:002012-02-22T15:14:47.453-07:00

February 22, 2012Still noodling Sheriff Bob Paul images. Here's a scratchboard image I whipped out this morning before I came into work: Had lunch with the actor Peter Brown, along with with two friends of his at Tonto Bar & Grill. The friends are appearing in a new Western that begins filming in Santa Fe in March. It's called "Palominos" starring Sam Elliott, Daryl Hannah and Buck Taylor, among

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February 21, 2012Still fretting over my cover assignment for John Boessenecker. So far, I haven't captured the massive frame of my sitter, but I'm getting there. Last weekend in Wickenburg I met a guy at the parade who is almost exactly the proportions of lanky Sheriff Bob Paul. That is—six foot four and 270 pounds. I wanted to see how that massive of a guy would stand up to next to a Winchester.

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February 20, 2012The True West motorcade made it's way through Wickenburg last Saturday past record crowds at the Gold Rush Parade. Here you can see the official True West extended-Checker Cab limo with my not-so-secret service escorts. I'm at the back of the car, in the green shirt, waving, in this very Zapruder-style photo.That's Lee Anderson on Concho, back left, dressed out perfectly as a

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February 17, 2012Still perusing the 16 issues of the Razz I received yesterday. My cartoon character, the Doper Roper, loped through each and ever issue, and it was interesting to look at all these years later. For one thing the writing is very weak (I thought it was so hip at the time), but there are a couple of action sequence that actually track in a decent way. Like this sequence where the

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February 17, 2012Working on an idea I've had for some time. What if the real Wyatt Earp ran into an Old West re-enactor in Vegas at Cowboy Christmas? What would the Sass-head say to the infamous lawman and legendary Westerner? I think I know:Meanwhile, the posting of the front page of the parody paper The Cilbuper yesterday brought back memories for a former employee of the Arizona Republic who

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February 16, 2012Thanks to Kathy, I bagged a complete set of Razz Revues off ebay. Only set me back $275. In the first editorial, called "Regurgitation" I wrote, "On June 28th, 1972, we decided to produce something that would be a collector's item and worth a lot of money someday. We haven't decided what yet. In the meantime we created and published the first issue of Razz Revue."It's a bit

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February 15, 2012Timon Harper was at the Arizona Centennial party at the state capital yesterday and he took this image of me holding court from the stage. I think I was in the process of describing the size of my ego. What's funny is I never even noticed there were trees up there. Kind of weird looking. Looks more like I'm giving a lecture on Arizona foliage. Ha.Meanwhile, the favortie comment I

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February 14, 2012Went into the Beast early today for an appearance at the big birthday bash at the state capital. Big stage right in front of the capitol building. Met Karl Eller (the guy in charge of raising money for this year's event), Dave Pratt, Rex Allen, Jr. was there, as was Marshall Trimble and Dolan Ellis (the three musicians are flying to Prescott Valley for two shows tonight at six,

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February 13, 2012One of my best friends and certainly a charter member of the Zane Brothers, is having a birthday on Wednesday. Took him to lunch today at the Keg Steakhouse in Desert Ridge. Laughed and laughed, like a couple of immature kids, which is redundant when you really think about it. Okay, here's one of the pieces of art that will definitely be in the BBB Arizona Centennial package of

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February 13, 2012Working out the final details on tomorrow's big Arizona Centennial BBB page of cartoons in the Arizona Republic. Have several tweaks I am requesting. Part of a huge 32-page-behemoth section. Proud to be part of it. Here's a scene that didn't make the cut, I'm sorry to say. Loved the image but just couldn't come up with a decent joke about it. In these situations I trust Dan The

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February 12, 2012Had a speech last night at the Cave Creek Library. It was an Arizona Centennial fund raiser for the library. Sold out crowd. Had fun.Over the weekend, one of the last remaining old school sign painters (meaning he does it by hand) started work on our building. Here is he is on the roof on Friday.On Saturday he zeroed in on the new part of the sign.I'll give you the view of the

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February 11, 2012Found this very large board in my flat files yesterday. It's 20 inches wide by 42 inches high.These were ambitious scenes for an episode of Honkytonk Sue at the Heatwave Cafe. The Heatwave Cafe building was inspired by an isolated, legendary place out in the middle of nowhere (actually near Buckeye) called Froggy Bottom. It had an Alamo front with wagon wheel windows. Very old

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February 10, 2012Just got the news Paul Bond died last night. Going to be a memorial service for the iconic, Nogales bootmaker next Tuesday. Got a sneak peek at the script for the new Quentin Tarrantino Spaghetti Western: Django Unchained last night. Read half of it this morning and it is outrageous and very funny. Think Inglorious Bastards meets Jonah Hex. One of the most life changing films I

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February 8, 2012Still culling and filing old illustrations out of my flat files in the garage. Fresh out of college I launched into a comic strip called The Doper-Roper which ran in the Razz Revue and although it was inconsistent, in both art and writing, I sometimes hit the mark, like this rooster tail of dust thrown up by the entire Cattletrack Police Department:I was racing a Triumph Tiger 500

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February 7, 2012Still culling cartoons out of my flat files in the garage. Found this image of the dead Daltons, only someone has put a Groucho nose and glasses on Dick Broadwell.Not sure why, although I suspect this had something to do with my BBB doubletrucks that ran in the Phoenix New Times back in the eighties. Here's another image that depicts Ronald Reagan as a Navajo President, holding

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February 6, 2012Finally, saw Drive. Thomas Bell brought it out yesterday and we all watched it. Really enjoyed it. Minimalist story, told well. Albert Brooks is fantastic as a stand-up mobster. Also recently saw Hugo and The Adventures of Tin Tin (weak stories, outrageous cinema techniques, which is the problem, it's all technique and no humanity), and before that I saw The Descendants, which has

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February 6, 2012Finally, saw Drive. Thomas Bell brought it out yesterday and we all watched it. Really enjoyed it. Minimalist story, told well. Albert Brooks is fantastic as a stand-up mobster. Also recently saw Hugo and The Adventures of Tin Tin (weak stories, outrageous cinema techniques, which is the problem, it's all technique and no humanity), and before that I saw The Descendants, which has

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February 3, 2012I had a performance-speech last night in Apache Junction. Took me an hour and a half to wade across The Beast to AJ during rush hour. The 101 crawled all the way to the 202 (I'm sure it's the same across the country, just different numbers). I'm thankful I don't have to do this every day as so many commuters do everywhere.That said, the show in the Apache Junction High School

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February 2, 2012So I'm proofing John Boessenecker's historic travel loop from San Francisco to Virginia City and he mentions checking out Rancho de los Putos and I do a double take. Surely that can't be correct. Puto is Spanish for male whore and puta is whore. After some fact checking, Meghan Saar came up with this: "I believe the Los Putos part of the name comes from the nearby Putah Creek,

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February 1, 2012This is a cover sketch of Doc Holliday for Wild West magazine. Found it in my studio last weekend. Did this before Bob McCubbin, Rick Baish and I bought True West.So this is pre-1999. Not a bad cover concept (his shoulders are a tad low and the hat too small, but the likeness is pretty good). I seem to remember they used someone else."This is funny, and ironic."—Doc Holliday, if

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January 31, 2012Very busy day. Started with a blood test at 7:45, then a biz breakfast at C4 in Cave Creek and then a long day scrambling to finish our 10th Annual Travel issue. Lots of Texas Rangers work, including this shot of Bass Outlaw as he looks today. Ha."I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard."—Lyle Lovett, in Esquire magazine

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January 30, 2012Went home for lunch and whipped out a pic of Jack Swilling, one of the founders of Phoenix who died poor (all the founders did):All of which leads to the old conclusion that pioneers get the arrows and settlers get the land. I originally titled this True West Moment as "Founders Flounder" but I recently saw the usage of founder as "a ship filling with water and sinking. . ." so

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January 27, 2012When it rains it pours department: Lew Jones dropped by today and left me a standard marriage form in case Kathy and I want to tie the knot again. Since I have two kids who are tying the knot in the next six months, this would be funny, or the final straw. Not sure which.Meanwhile, it was Lew who gifted me the board plaque with a piece of original wood off of William Antrim's

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January 27, 2012Ever heard of a story slam? I hadn't either, until my old friend Mark Goldman (from my radio days) contacted me and asked me to come down and participate in The Great Arizona Story Slam. Basically each story teller gets five minutes to tell a story (tonight's theme is "Like Butch and Sundance: Partners In Crime—Friends to the End." Coming off at the Doubletree Inn at 44th Street

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January 26, 2012 Taped a table read for our proposed TV show "True Arizona" late this morning. Marshall Trimble, Jana Bommersbach and I marched through a ton of material to fill a full 56 minutes of screen time. Going to eventually take the show on the road.The True West website has been buzzing with comments about Bert Lindley, the first actor to allegedly portray Wyatt Earp in a movie. Here's

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