tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36901762010-03-17T11:23:37.361-07:00Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary EntriesIf 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.comBlogger2934125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-8223391666199228272010-03-17T11:16:00.000-07:002010-03-17T11:23:37.388-07:00March 17, 2010Working on a Classic Gunfight that I thought would be a slam dunk, since I covered it in CGII, our second volume of Classic Gunfights, which featured the 25 gunfights behind the O.K. Corral. On the so-called vendetta ride by Wyatt Earp, his men shot and killed one Florentino Cruz. I had a decent narrative of the actual killing, but then last night, as I cross referenced the event Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-90811076622792420112010-03-16T16:49:00.000-07:002010-03-16T17:09:44.033-07:00March 16, 2010 Over the weekend I whipped out a series of scratchboard landscapes to cleanse my pallet. Here's the first one:And here's the second study:Yes, those are riders, off in the distance, kicking up dust. And then, a follow up, version of the above (although it's much longer, I shortened it here to the same width):"The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-5966005606746272542010-03-16T09:32:00.000-07:002010-03-16T09:58:04.167-07:00March 16, 2010Worked this morning on a scratchboard for a Classic Gunfight we're working on about the killing of Florentino Cruz on the so-called Wyatt Earp vendetta ride.After the killing of Frank Stilwell in the Tucson train station, Earp went back to Tombstone, gathered up a posse of mostly gambler friends and rode out to South Pass in search of suspects, like Pete Spence and others, who WyattBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-60312731692368261892010-03-16T08:56:00.000-07:002010-03-16T08:58:17.458-07:00March 16, 2010Several days ago I posted one of Bob Stinson's "grave babes" as Trish Brink calls them. With my blessing, Mr. Stinson has taken several Las Vegas show girls to Old West graves and posed them with the grave of an True West legend. Here is the photo of Debbie Dayton at Alferd Packer's snow covered grave in Littleton, Colorado:The Top Secret Writer came out yesterday and we had a fine Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-43806046230870600932010-03-15T09:42:00.000-07:002010-03-15T09:50:22.885-07:00March 15, 2010Worked most of the weekend on scratchboards. Here's a new view of Beauty, the Apache maiden who stole the Apache Kid's heart:And, speaking of the Apache Kid, here's his mug shot photo when he landed on the Rock:Notice that his prison number appears to be 4441 which, no doubt, humored the Kid since four is considered a lucky number for Apaches. The Kid served 18 months.Also worked onBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-2040983334988374692010-03-14T13:24:00.000-07:002010-03-14T13:27:40.989-07:00March 14, 2010The Top Secret Writer chaired a writing history panel at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. The session, at 11:30 A.M. was televised on C-Span2 and I watched it from the comfort of our living room.Paul Hutton is so good at being an MC and the writers, Hampton Sides, Jeff Guinn and James Donovan were in top form as they discussed the ups and downs of writing history. All Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-53768666678488962692010-03-12T15:52:00.000-08:002010-03-12T15:57:01.827-08:00March 12, 2010 Just got this from Allen Fossenkemper and wanted to share it:Pinal City, 1880This is evidently from Sharlott Hall Museum. Didn't know there was a photo of the town where Mattie Earp breathed her last. Hard to believe, there is nothing left there today but a few foundations. Pinal City is, or was, a couple miles west of Superior, Arizona."Wyatt Earp ruined my life and I don't wantBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-9943829121733999262010-03-12T14:27:00.000-08:002010-03-12T14:33:15.486-08:00March 12, 2010Went home for lunch and started a Burnside rifle shooter (see sketches from yesterday). Went up at noon and got my haircut at Bev's. Got all the latest neighborhood news: Paul, one of the oldtime Cave Creek barbers died of a heart attack, and Bev's cousin also passed away. She was cooking Mexican food for the memorial service this weekend. Plus there is a memorial service tomorrow Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-31510551466766501512010-03-12T13:31:00.000-08:002010-03-12T13:43:43.977-08:00March 12, 2010 I noticed I got a rise out of a few gents yesterday when I mentioned a certain magazine (Naked Cowgirls From Montana). Well, it just so happens that a friend of mine, Bob Stinson, who is a Vegas git-picker of some renown has a twin obsession: Vegas showgirls and outlaw graves.I know, I know: twin obsession. It's a Vegas thing, but it works on several levels, no? He asked me if Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-64977054097818969542010-03-12T09:54:00.000-08:002010-03-12T09:55:25.988-08:00March 12, 2010 Now this is more like it!d Very clear day, with today's high temp in the low seventies. Went for a walk with Peaches this morning and enjoyed the green.And Now For Something Completely Different:Started a scratchboard of Alcatraz last night and scratched in the water this morning:Kind of kicking myself. Overdid it on the water scratching. Could have been a contender, but not sureBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-29116937083696175862010-03-11T15:07:00.000-08:002010-03-11T15:48:27.007-08:00March 11, 2010Mark Boardman is working on a cover story that is quite amazing: it includes a white In-din, a rodeo champ, a basketball star and a deadly Wild West shootout. Going to be a great one. Just read Mark's rough draft before lunch. Goes to press in a week. Dan The Man is busy doing a cover. Should come up this afternoon. Can't show it to you because it's top secret (at this point).TalkedBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-79811925882828777372010-03-10T13:12:00.001-08:002010-03-10T13:12:30.368-08:00March 10, 2010 Just got back from a speech for the Men's Club at Winfield, a gated community south of Carefree. Great guys. At 11:30, the incoming pres Steve Wall picked me up in his cherry '56 Ford convertable and we cruised down in Detroit style to the gig. Hey, FYI: we are under attack from a series of bots (outlaw spammers) pushing drugs and faking names. We are killing them as fast as weBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-31601369778806003562010-03-10T10:23:00.000-08:002010-03-10T10:24:34.614-08:00March 10, 2010Just got word from our Military Editor Alan Huffines that Granger, Texas, which is northeast of Austin, will be converted into an Old West street for the Coen brothers new take on True Grit. Oscar winner Jeff Bridges will play the John Wayne part.Here's the news report:GRANGER - "True Grit," a film classic that saw John Wayne receive an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1969, is beingBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-82358493759673650702010-03-08T12:37:00.000-08:002010-03-08T12:45:45.828-08:00March 8, 2010It's been raining off and on for the last 48 hours. Stayed home yesterday and worked on True West Moments illustrations, like this one for Nazi Westerns filmed in Arizona, "Heil Hickok!":The stain at the top right stems from our new cat Honey Boy Roy, who tipped over my brush cleaner jar and the water stained the Esdee scratchboard on my desk.Also worked on a Sedona landscape for useBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-82692686988991573822010-03-06T15:03:00.001-08:002010-03-06T15:05:53.189-08:00March 6, 2010 There is a new book coming out that is quite a mind blower. We got an advance preview copy last week and I've been reading it every chance I get. I'm only up to page 48 and I've ear-marked three features and a potential cover story. Did you know that in 1936 a Nazi propaganda film—a Western!— called Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) was filmed partly in Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-77717295611384896292010-03-05T09:41:00.000-08:002010-03-05T09:43:01.676-08:00March 5, 2010 Got up this morning and tweaked the Goyahkla (also spelled Goyathlay) illustration a bit. Lowered her left eye to match right, fiddled with the yawn and hands. Brought it into the office and scanned it at 600 dpi and handed off to Robert Ray who plunked it into the Arizona Republic layout and here it is:Pretty damn clean, if I do say so myself. These tidbits, styled under True Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-75439547989448677972010-03-04T16:02:00.000-08:002010-03-04T16:09:37.144-08:00March 4, 2010 Went home for lunch and bailed into a scratchboard of the Baby G yawning like a just fed kitten in a bay window. That's a Norman Rockwell dog I poached from a book featuring his work. As you know, Baby G's parent's named him Goyathlay—He Who Yawns, but he had a life that was anything but a yawner. As a young Apache warrior, his Spanish speaking adversaries exclaimed in the heatBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-46995653798423768462010-03-04T11:32:00.000-08:002010-03-04T11:42:38.921-08:00March 4, 2010I was filing some artwork in my art morgue (where terminal art goes to die) and I ran across a comic strip that ran in the New Times in the seventies. My high school life was still quite raw in my mind and I created this strip called "Fakeout" about a young high school girl with horn rim glasses who, in 1963, is visited by her future self and gets to go back in time and live through Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-62626979644103337762010-03-03T10:29:00.000-08:002010-03-03T10:38:57.749-08:00March 3, 2010 We are getting ready for our first annual True West photo contest. Winners will get a chance to be published in True West magazine. Here are the four categories we will be awarding first-place prizes:• Historic Spot• Landscape• Re-enactment• Ghost TownEach category winner will receive $200, while the grand prize winner will receive $500!Here's the link for the contest.Speaking of Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-67150599328159475322010-03-03T09:38:00.000-08:002010-03-03T09:39:28.991-08:00March 3, 2010 On Monday The Arizona Republic reported that Tiger Woods was seeking treatment for sex addiction at a private residence in Cave Creek. When I got into the office someone cornered me and said, "Your wife is a therapist. You can tell me, is Tiger at your house?" I can categorically state that Tiger Woods is not at my house at the current time. He and I are hardly friends and whileBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-67446076259174352112010-03-03T09:01:00.001-08:002010-03-03T09:16:16.608-08:00March 3, 2010 Went home for lunch yesterday and worked on a separate scratchboard to "marry" to the Lt. Joseph Ives scratchboard I posted earlier. Here's the new bottom:Here are the sketches I utilized to get there:And, here is one of the goofy models I utilized to capture the thumbs down look:Hey, the guy works cheap."I'm a real cool head, makin' real good bread."—Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys,Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-64451112081246669982010-03-02T15:48:00.000-08:002010-03-02T17:22:38.918-08:00March 2, 2010As I mentioned, over the weekend I was cleaning out the garage and found a drawer full of photos chewed to shreds by packrats. However, one photo survives and it's a very early shot of our band The Exits:A couple notes: Yes, a packrat bit out of the top of the photo and two, notice that the film was developed in May of 1964, five months after the photo was taken. Typical sixties Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-2340595666191837822010-03-02T08:56:00.000-08:002010-03-02T08:57:29.724-08:00March 2, 2010 Went to yoga this morning for the first time in a month. Felt good. Mark Boardman flew in yesterday and we went over editorial plans for the rest of the year. Lots of good ideas all around. I'm very excited about what we have coming up. He spent the night at our house and took off this morning for Shakespeare, New Mexico and points beyond. Speaking of Mark, last week I put outBob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-66951679681048008062010-03-01T09:36:00.001-08:002010-03-01T12:04:40.559-08:00March 1, 2010 Over the weekend I worked on a scratchboard illustration of a general who lost several times in the Civil War and still ended up with a mountain range in Arizona named for him (along with a fort and a road):The challenge: how to illustrate General McDowell as a loser without denigrating his character? Well, how about with a broken sword, and a riddled coat and his arm in a sling, Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-10313045024718808142010-02-28T16:52:00.000-08:002010-02-28T16:55:28.221-08:00February 28, 2010Last night Kathy and I joined Lew and Tara Jones and attended a concert, actually a guitar and cello gig, at the C4 (Cave Creek Coffee Co.). After a dinner here at the house with the Joneses and Deena and her friend Aaron, we motored up to C4 at about seven. However, according to the manager, because of a 100% chance of rain in the forecast (the gig was outdoors), the venue was Bob Bozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.com