Daily Whip Outs: A Cut Above

 February 17, 2024

   Okay, you've seen some of the Daily Whip Outs in the basic, first line category ($47.50), now it's time for the next level of BBB Whip Outs.

Daily Whip Out:"Boarding School Affair"

   Yes, this was a squeamish, not much reported, episode in the Native American boarding school experience where horndog teachers took advantage of the more attractive students in their charge. It was not pretty, but it was inevitable. A scene from the forthcoming graphic novel "Bisti Badman". Don't worry, it has a happy ending.

   Meanwhile, on the joint project Juni Fisher front. . .

Daily Whip Out:

"Dixxy Diamond In Dust Storm"

   Yes, Juni Fisher and I have a great story to tell about a modern cowgirl who doesn't quite fit the Hollyood, cliche mold.

   The cowboys in my family often referred to the rough and ready hired hands who were not very gentle when it came to the livestock.

Daily Whip Out: "Mr. Hell On Horses"

   And, when it comes to cowboyin' in Arizona this guy has some worthy heritage.

Daily Whip Out:

"Loudermilk Arizona Cowboy"

Daily Whip Out: "Miner's Claim III"

Daily Whip Out: "Miss You Too"

Daily Whip Out: "Old Coot"

   He was a good guy, Uncle Guy, who lived at Steins Pass, New Mexico. I inherited his saddle.

Daily Whip Out:

"Uncle Guy In The Sky"

   All these Whip Outs are way above the bargain basement prices offered in the previous posts. And, here are two guys who came out today to put a dent in the top tier of BBB Whip Outs:

Rob's Robbery

   And the band dude wasn't alone.

Craig Schepp Scores!

   Yes, my number one art patron, Craig Schepp, took home a select gaggle of the best BBB art work. All, in all, it was a momentous day of collection worthy material.

"What was hard to suffer, is sweet to remember."

—Seneca

The Sexual Fantasies of A Clodhopping Yahoo

 February 16, 2024

   I am not proud of any of this, but, unfortunately it is all true. When I was 12 I had a major crush on a certain Mouseketeer. And, in my immature, fevered, Kingman brain, I just knew she knew too.

Daily Whip Out:

"My First Hot Mouseketeer Girlfriend"

   I'm sorry, this DWO is not for sale. It is perhaps the best caricature I have ever done and I am having it framed and mounted in a place of prominence in the Triple B Studio.

   Now, back to Clodhopping Fantasyland and the Daily Whip Outs that track the downward spiral of a lonely kid who should have known better.

    A couple years later, I  graduated to this girl.

Daily Whip Out:

"She Knew How to Pony"

   Trust me, she knew how to do other stuff, but she just didn't want to do any of it with me. Later, I pumped gas in my dad's gas station and fell prey to the legend of the Dip Stick which was a total made up fantasy designed to hook naive little goobers like myself. The older guys told us when a good looking woman comes in for gas be sure to check the oil because sometimes they have custom dip sticks that say, "Ask for ass."

Daily Whip Out:

"The Girl With The Custom Dip Stick"

   Growing up in Kingman car culture, I also had a variety of crushes of the cinematic kind.

Daily Whip Out: "Two-Lane Blacktop Babe"

   Yes, that's Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and "Sweet Baby James" Taylor, and the girl is Laurie Bird and the movie is "Two-Lane Blacktop," one of my favorite road pictures to this day.

An Actual Vegas Billboard, circa 1978

   I grew up 103 miles from Vegas, so I not only got my ideas about sexual fantasies from cruising the Strip, we also cruised Fremont in downtown Vegas and made out with local girls from Henderson, which turned out to be a long drive for a little tongue, if you know what I mean, and if you are over seventy, I think you do.

   "When you study history you realize people have been this stupid for thousands of years."

—Old Vaquero Saying

Last Stand of The Razz Band And Wyatt Earp Bartender Meets Fabio

 February 15, 2024

Get ready for a loud blast from the past.

Last Stand of The Razz Band

Yes, on Saturday, February 24 at the Cryin' Coyote Barbecue in Cave Creek we will be rockin' from three to six. Here we are at our induction into the Arizona Music Hall of Fame several years ago.

Just don't ask me to do Wipeout.

Lauren Kormylo, who is a jeweler and longtime art collector, came out with her husband, Tom, and her stepson, Thomas, to go through the Triple B Art Garage Sale, this morning and she patiently went through five different stashes and three Kristi Jacobs' packets and chose these six pieces.

The Kromylo's Major Haul

I don't want to imply they stole anything, but, in fact, she lifted some very pricey artwork at a heavily reduced price because a.) she's a True West Maniac, and b.) she bought my stuff when nobody else would (besides Craig Schepp). The good news is—there's plenty more where these came from! Like these little gems that got coughed up when Lauren was looking through a packet from my upstairs morgue:

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"When The Smoke Cleared, Wyatt Earp Stood There Without A Scratch"

Imagine all of the bile and booze talk Wyatt had to put up with as a bartender (and he was a bartender much longer than he was a lawman). As he told Ike Clanton after getting an earful walking to Earp's house after a faro shift at the Oriental, "Ike, you talk too much for a fighting man."

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Wyatt Earp Bartender Ear Bender"

Daily Whip Out: "Wyatt In Hollywood"

Wyatt Earp As Fabio

  And, these next two DWOs are based on Sadie Earp's obsession with having Wyatt save a damsel from a burning building in their painfully lame and ill-fated attempts to write a successful, i.e. commercial story about Earp's time in Tombstone.

Daily Whip Out:

"Fabio Earp Saves A Damsel In Distress"

Daily Whip Out:

"Wyatt Fabio Saves Damsel In Distress II"

And, yes, I spent way too long "improving" all of the above images.

   One of the joys of rifling through my archives is finding stuff I don't even remember doing. And, I didn't have to touch a thing on this big, bad boy.

Daily Whip Out:

"A Great Horned Owl In A Twisted Saguaro"

This is pre-scratchboard and was drawn from life just down the ridge from us, circa 1987. There was this giant saguaro with twisted arms, most of them pointed down because it was near Cave Creek wash where it gets cold at night and the arms get twisted from frostbite. It has since fallen so I'm glad I got to memorialize it. The great horned owl knew all along.

Sorry, I get kind of emotional about all this, but as my French amigo Paul puts it:

"A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art."

—Paul Cezanne

Jammin' With Daddy-O

 February 14, 2024

   Remember when your dad thought he was the coolest?

"Jammin' with Dad" by John Falter, 1956

   By the way, did Usher ever play an actual song at the Super Bowl Half-time Show? It seemed like it was all beat samples from a sound catalogue. And, roller skates? Really?

   Yes, I believe in annoyed at first sight.

The Exits, New Year's Eve

Girl's Gym, Kingman, Arizona, 1964

Not one roller skater. Just sayin'

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

—George Orwell

Lena Stewart, The First Lady of Las Vegas

"True artists scorn nothing: they are oblidged to understand rather than to judge."

—Albert Camus

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

—William Blake

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."

—Ernest Hemingway

   On our walk a couple days ago, we ran across these cuties.

Four cuties: Uno, Kathy, Bev & Fluffy

"I told my daughter, if you want to be a journalist, you'd better marry a doctor."

—Krista Ralston Soukup

Bass Reeves Busts Out And A Horseradish Whip Out Verified And Dated Just For You

 February 13, 2024

   Working on a big feature on an Old West character who has been getting a lot of coverage in the last year.

Daily Whip Out: "Bass Reeves Busts Out"

   Okay, here is how my curator Amy Dunn thinks we should sell some of the obtuse Daily Whip Outs that will be in a bin for sale at the public yard sale at the Crying Coyote Barbecue Cafe in two weeks.

Daily Whip Out: "Horseradish"

   So, if you see this DWO in a bin and you think, What the Hell?—here it is in context:

Daily Whip Out: "Horseradish In Context"

   And, we'll have a printout of the above True West Moment on the back of the original illustration and it will be signed by me.

   The Big Triple B Studio Yard Sale is ongoing. Here is a good example of the finds you can still score.

Rob Mathiasch Took These Bad Boys Home

    If you want to score a sneak peek at all the Whip Outs you can contact me at bozebell@twmag.com and we'll set up a time and date when you can come out for a look see. If you want to wait until the big Razz Reunion, on February 24, I will have many originals and art prints on display at the Cryin' Coyote Barbecue in downtown Cave Creek. It will take place from 3 to 6 and a good time will be had by all.

"Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

—Old Vaquero Saying

Big Ears, Turn Your head to The Side, Plus Triple B Art Studio Steals

 February 12, 2024

   Funny, how a trivial comment can traumatize us, especially in our youth.

Eighth Grade Graduation Photo, 1961

   "Big ears, turn your head to the side," said the photographer's assistant as I sat down for my eighth grade graduation photograph at Gallup Studios in downtown Kingman. That comment really stung and, in fact, haunted me for a long time. For one thing, I never realized I had "big ears" until he barked at me with some authority and it's hard to look in the mirror after that and not see the curse of it all. I know this sounds ridiculous in the overall scheme of things, but, man, for a long time, my ears were burning.

"I feel your pain, Kingman dude."

—Dumbo

   Meanwhile, the Triple B Studio Art Sale continues. Two days ago, the father and son team, those Majestic Corderman's showed up and drove off with a trunkload of goodies.

Dennis Corderman's Prized BBBs

John Corderman's Prized BBBs

   By the way, just for the record, John is holding "The Gullywasher" upside down.

Daily Whip Out: "The Gullywasher"

"We're all just prisoners here, of our own device. . ."

—Eagles, Hotel California

A Roarin' Razz Reunion

 February 11, 2024

   Here's something my fellow Zane Masters promised a long time ago. We will get this whole shebang back together, one more time, fifty years from now. So, that was then, this is now.

R-R-R-R-R-Roaring Out of The Past.  

   An early—1974—Doper Roper scene of flat trackin'-sideways skiddin', early day highway patrol dirt road, parking lot, handling. From my Razz Revue morgue. Yes, we're still kickin' up dust fifty years later.

The Razz Band Returns

   On Saturday, February 24, the infamous Razz Band are gonna be jammin' one more time. At first it looked like Jack Alves and I would be doin' it sans Hans, but. . .

The Razz Band With Hans

   We moved the date so Hans Olson could make it! Rick Unger, of Cosmo Topper fame, at right, has left the building, but he will be there in spirit.

   Another Zane Master who will also be there is this legendary Arizona politician:

   Yes, I was his campaign manager, and yes, Dan The Man shot this immortal poster down at the state capitol and it was Dan who came up with the line, "He knows what Arizona needs." Russ ran for governor of Arizona as a write in candidate and we are proud to announce he received over 200 votes. That was a half century ago and we believe Russ should run again with the slogan, "He Still Knows What Arizona Needs." I told Russ if we play our cards right we might be able to double our vote count this time out because we're so much older and wiser.

   Yes, Wonderful Russ and Dan The Man will be there at the Cryin' Coyote Barbecue joint in Cave Creek, February 24, 3 to 6 P.M. It's totally free, except for the BBQ, which is worth every penny.

   Be there or be square!

Expect Lots of Laughing Goobers!

"I'm for limited corruption."

—Gubernatorial candidate, Wonderful Russ

66 Chicks And The Horndogs Who Loved Them!

 February 10, 2024

   Some pictures ring true, even though they probably were taken many miles away from my home stomping grounds.

66 Chicks!

   The Ford is a '59 (my father had one) and the gas station is a Phillips 66 (my dad had two) and I know those girls (even though they are probably from back east) but I especially know the horndog in the back wiping the rear windshield on what appears to be a '59 Chevy, and leering at the girls. I worked with that guy so many times. There must have been a labor union that said, "We need a horndog at a Hilltop gas station. Get one out there immediately!"

   And, speaking of horndogs:

Two Major Kingman Horndogs

And the Women Who Loved Them Briefly

Wild West Women Who Encountered

Assorted Horndogs

   And, what exactly is a "horndog"? Miriam Webster says: "a lustful or sexually aggressive man." While, one of the Kingman girls, above, described her horndog as, "I swear he would hump a coffee table leg."

"What was hard to suffer, is sweet to remember."

—Senceca

Black Beauty In A Gray Dress And A Few Other Wild Women of The Wild West

 February 9, 2024

   If there's one thing I never get tired of, it's Wild Women of the Wild West.

Daily Whip Out:

"Black Beauty In A Gray Dress"

Daily Reworked Whip Out:

"Olive Goes Native"

(Obviously she had mixed feelings

about being "rescued")

Daily Whip Out: "In'din Hipster"

Daily Whip Out: "One Tough Broad"

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Mary Chase Walker"

Daily Whip Out: "Pistol Packin' Mamacita"

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Indentured"

Daily Whip Out: "Zuni Zias"

Daily Whip Out: "Zulu Gunfighter"

And all of these are available in the Triple B Art Studio Yard Sale. Let me know if there's one you want and I will save it for you. Send your inquiries to me at bozebell@twmag.com

"The function of the artist is to provide what life does not."

—Tom Robbins