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I think I may have drawn this for a Texas fanzine, but it ain't necessarily so. The twin colts, that is the two pistols, are 1851 Army Model .44 cal. rechambered for brass cartridges. The original issue was a front loaded with a paper cartridge, and a separate mercury fulminade "cap" placed over a nipple at the back of the cylander. There is a rod for tamping the charge still attached. In normal practise, the load was then sealed in with grease, to prevent sparks from firing from accidentally discharging other loads. In the rechambered model this was no longer a problem.
Don't ask me about the horse. I don't know the first thing about horses.
Don't ask me about the horse. I don't know the first thing about horses.
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In 1987 I would only have had a vague idea who Tezuka was, I think. I'd picked up some booklets of Astro Boy in New York already, and thought they looked oddly familiar even if I'd never seen the show. But that was far short of a thorogh understanding of his career or other creations.
Texas is really hard to draw somehow.
A while back I found a copy of James Michener's novel Texas, which when I read it struck me as being such a hateful piece of work - he must have had some bad experiences here - it's historically accurate, I suppose, but everyone is a bum and a crook, and everyone dies in a drastically picturesque manner (this last seems to be something your pony friend has good reason to be concerned about).
The Texas Navy had some of those early Colt revolvers, and when it was defeated by the Mexican Navy at one point the Texans smashed their Colts to keep them from falling into enemy hands.
A while back I found a copy of James Michener's novel Texas, which when I read it struck me as being such a hateful piece of work - he must have had some bad experiences here - it's historically accurate, I suppose, but everyone is a bum and a crook, and everyone dies in a drastically picturesque manner (this last seems to be something your pony friend has good reason to be concerned about).
The Texas Navy had some of those early Colt revolvers, and when it was defeated by the Mexican Navy at one point the Texans smashed their Colts to keep them from falling into enemy hands.
I dunno... sometimes I think Texas is America's Mordor. It seems to have been founded on fraud and deceipt (lieing both to congress and the Mexicans), to enriched itself by subsidies and monopoly, to be the fount of some of the worst forms of conservative, punitive thought, and be the homeland of the present White House's record-breaking incompetence.
On the other hand its a beautiful state. If I could invade Earth and expell human beings from some place to call my own, Texas would be a good candidate!
On the other hand its a beautiful state. If I could invade Earth and expell human beings from some place to call my own, Texas would be a good candidate!
Point taken, though I think France would be a better candidate for pest clearance ("and there was much rejoicing"). The climate here is rather more severe in both directions, though of late the winters have been a lot warmer, down here on the mudflats anyhow. Someone up in Dallas may think otherwise. And now we have the Crazy Rasberry Ant (discovered by an exterminator named Rasberry) swarming like there's no tomorrow.
As for our current Fearless Leader, he and his family are caroetbaggers who showed up here one day and have been trying to pass themselves off as Texans ever since. Nobody here really talks like that, outside of the North Houston Home for the Feebleminded.
Ah, history, sometimes I think Pol Pot had the right idea - nuke everything and start over.
As for our current Fearless Leader, he and his family are caroetbaggers who showed up here one day and have been trying to pass themselves off as Texans ever since. Nobody here really talks like that, outside of the North Houston Home for the Feebleminded.
Ah, history, sometimes I think Pol Pot had the right idea - nuke everything and start over.
I know the Bushs arrived from the NE at some point before Little Georgie's time, maybe even Georgie Senior's time. But when you come down to it, aren't all Texans (except those who speak Kiowa or Apache) carpetbaggers? I'm willing to accept the Hispanics as a sort of "native". At the very least, the Americans who turned up and squatted on land in the Mexican colony of Texas are all late-comers.
Crazy Raspberry ants? What do they do? Blow Bronx cheers?
Crazy Raspberry ants? What do they do? Blow Bronx cheers?
Those ants ...they just swarm.
I don't know about the "Hispanics," especially if the term is applied to people from southern Mexico and Central America - their ancestors passed through here thousands of years ago, but they have no more of a claim to the place than I would have to, say, the area around Stonehenge.
Interestingly enough,the last time W ran for Gov of Texas, he was up against someone who was very far from being a carpetbagger, a guy named Sanchez who was descended from the founder of the city of Laredo (1755). Maybe he should run again, the current Gov, Mr Goodhair, has turned out to be a fairly thoroughly worthless character.
I don't know about the "Hispanics," especially if the term is applied to people from southern Mexico and Central America - their ancestors passed through here thousands of years ago, but they have no more of a claim to the place than I would have to, say, the area around Stonehenge.
Interestingly enough,the last time W ran for Gov of Texas, he was up against someone who was very far from being a carpetbagger, a guy named Sanchez who was descended from the founder of the city of Laredo (1755). Maybe he should run again, the current Gov, Mr Goodhair, has turned out to be a fairly thoroughly worthless character.
Everyone comes from somewhere else, way back when. Even the North American Indian looks like to have been a bit of a Johnny come lately -- evidence shows a somewhat different Asian people -- related to the Ainu --appear to have been here first. Indian spokesmen are heroically denying it, of course...
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