Laughing
at Life
To
find the “funny” in art
is to see the glass half full.
By
Cathy Orr
Just
as humorist Baxter Black says there will always be
a need for someone to “think up stuff,” so
there will always be a need for someone to draw funny
stuff, as in cartoons, and, in this context, cowboy-oriented
cartoons. Why? Because humans need to laugh every
so often, even if it’s just so we won’t
cry.
Because
we need to laugh, a group of select Western folks
have made it their purpose to meet that need through
their art. They’ve been able to put cowboys
and their animal companions on canvas in situations
that dare us not to laugh.
Besides
being funny in their own right, cowboy cartoons remind
us of situations we—orsomebody we know—experienced,
so we appreciate predicaments that come with being
cowboy, such as Jim Tschetter’s If Mama
Ain’t Happy, Thomas Lorimer’s Rainy
Days and Mondays, Eldon Walls’ Out
Slickered, and Nate Owens’ Lookin’ Up...
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Says
this cowboy in Eldon Wall's Out
Slickered: "I'll turn you into steaks...if
I come outta this here mess!" COURTESY
OF TOH-ATIN WESTERN ART GALLERY |
Thomas
Lorimer's Rainy Days and Mondays COURTESY
OF TOH-ATIN WESTERN ART GALLERY |
“The
human race has only one effective weapon and
that is laughter.”
Mark
Twain
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