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A simple porcelain handle covered with polymer clay. Made to give a special touch for ones commode, wardrobe or doors.
On the last day of Whitehorse Visy, #744 is seen handling one of the last recycling runs in Vermont South
Frame :*SURLY* cross-check Painted by COOK PAINT WORKS
Headset :*CHRIS KING* nothreadset
Rims :*VELO ORANGE* voyager rim
Tire :*BRUCE GORDON* rock n' road
Brake Lever :*DIA-COMPE* DC-175 brake lever
Crankset :*BLUELUG* RMC crank set × *BLUE LUG* fat slim chainring
Brake :*DIA-COMPE* DC980 retro canti brake
Handle :*VELO ORANGE* klunker bar
Saddle :*BROOKS* b17 standard
Seat post:*BL SELECT* slit seatpost
Front Rack :*NITTO* rivendell 52F basket rack
Stem :*NITTO* MT-32 low stack stem
Grip :*OURY* bmx grip
Pedal:*MKS* grafight-XX pedal
More like a hotel-room macro: one of the coffee cups supplied for in-room beverages
ODC: household macro
I don´t know what the cyrillic writing says, but the worst contamination of the barracks grounds has happened around here...
My study on simple composition,this has been a test of my new lens Tamron 17-50 f2.8 (Handle of an old FIAT 500)
"Let us now gather our wits and strengths. Leave behind the indecision, finger pointing and ducking of responsibility. We will handle this migration crisis if we show the resolve of our forebears," told President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the plenary chamber on Tuesday, February 2. "We must act in solidarity with those member states that bear the brunt of the crisis. We must accept a functional form of burden sharing," Ilves underlined.
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A red metal cart handle against a blue trash dumpster, behind the Logan Petsmart store. How could I not take a picture of these two colors together?
I had a fun afternoon trying to get a shot in my husband's shed. He has a lot of second hand or hand-me-down from his grandfather tools which have a lot of character about them. This vise was a hand-me-down from our old neighbours
Taken for Flickr for Fun November Scavenger Hunt
Amtrak P32-8BWH 511 pulls the autoracks off Amtrak Auto Train #53, immediately after its arrival into Sanford, Florida. The classic locomotive is one of the oldest active passenger engines on Amtrak’s roster, although this one is specifically assigned to make the Auto Train operation as efficient as possible every day. As soon as the train pulls in, the 511 will come in and split the autorack section into 6 loading tracks so passengers can retrieve their vehicles as quickly as possible. Once that’s done, the engine gets a bit of a break, before once again working to assemble the outbound Auto Train that afternoon.
This is known as the "fancy tea cup" in our house with so much gold. (Stamped on the bottom of both cup and saucer: Paragon by appointment to HM the Queen and HM Queen Mary, Fine Bone China, England Regd)
I like to shooting details of wild animals and plants, a close up of a butterflies wing, the uncurling of a new fern, the curve of a ducks neck, head tucked under a wing. This is a detail from a slightly larger beast.
Esplanade Theatres in Singapore are affectionately know as The Durians. The a pair of large curved surface resemble the smelly fruit popular with some in Singapore. It divides the world like no other fruit, you love it or hate it. The haters hate it so much that to carry one on public transport insures a fine of $5000, the same as carrying explosive materials.
The Theatres are loved. Located on The Bay, they are now one of Singapore's iconic landmarks. The roof is glass covered in Aluminium scales preventing a greenhouse effect.
Handle with care, the fruit is spiky and you wouldn't want to drop it. But the title reflects the smooth area between teeth like scales. It makes my think of a smooth patch of reptile's scales, or a dragon.
I love the three curves, the roof edge, the undulating horizon and glow of light. Interpret it as you like.
No, not that sort of snake handling.
Little A with a rather pretty corn snake at the Story Museum in Oxford.
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It's a Hotdog eat Chilidog world in which we live, and the Steaks are high. Conflicting reports from so called Egg-sperts who are seemingly peeled out from whichever dark recess they Current Bun inhabit, and Del Taco you all sorts of lies to to warn you of the perils of this weeks harmful additives and foods, to keep a Rib-Eye out for! I myself put little faith in the useless bunch of Dairy Queen's, Fuddruckers all of them! Make my Pizza Express to go, I get a Hardee's just thinking about a twelve inch meat feast, ready to Pret A Manger. Call up a Little Chef to prepare a fresh Spud U like, me and my Chick-Fil-A will be out on the town tonight, so Cluck-U-Chicken.
What in the Dunkin 'Donuts do these Egg-sperts know anyhow? Arby's the judge of what's nutritionally balanced and what's not. If I wanted to Monster Munch on Lettuce leaves and Carrot Juice, I'd have pointy ears and a furry butt! Nu Way Weiners! How dare they Taco Bell me what to eat and not to spend my hard earned Starbucks on. Yo Sushi my ass, they can kiss my Red Burrito 'cos it's all Hogi Yogi to me anyhow.
When the Corn Chips are down, just Chilli out my friends, tickle those Prime Ribs with a little of what you fancy, loosen your pant belts a Nacho, and simply indulge. Checkers out the variety that's available to you. Let's not Chocolate Fudge the outcome or Burger King around, any fool can clearly KFC that these idiots have no clue what they are talking about, and our bodies constantly need fuel, and that is no Coke. Diets be damned, Get those Foot longs down the Subway , do not give a flying Timmy Hortons, my little Krispy Kreme's what the reports tell you, do not stew on facts and figures, don't be a Wimpy, you know you want to 'go biggie' , you great big sex god, love your lumps and bumps and forget the fact that your cholesterol is through the roof, your fat intake sky high and coasting down the highway of fatality. Old McDonald's certainly had his farm and you want to eat every damn animal that ever set foot in it before you expire.
There's no use crying over spilled Milkshake, fast food does not Costa the earth these days, so tuck in, eat, enjoy and screw the consequences. Big is beautiful, life is short, pass the Gateaux and cork it Big Boy. Burger King me, I'm flane grilled starving now! Ah, that'll hit the White Spot.
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Rewritten May 22nd 2011 from a piece originally penned on December 21st 2009.
Photograph taken inside the Stratosphere Tower on Las Vegas Boulevard, in Las Vegas, USA on September 23rd 2009
NIKON D300 48mm 1/30s f/4.8 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED IF. UV filter
“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign." - Primo Levi
While making dinner, my partner spotted this on a bean. Others may consider this disgusting, but I saw this as a photo opportunity. I didn't even know what they were until I googled them! The fact that the pattern that the eggs made were the same a the knife handle that we were using meant that that photo opportunity found me for once!
Shot with a 580EXII into a reflector camera left and above.
To all, again,
I think everything has been handled.
The extension for the stay had been accepted.
And the document is on its way to Copenhagen.
As soon as I receive the document,
I can go to the Denmark immigration to get my new passport back.
Then I can on my way home.
According to the track information, the document will arrive on 24, Mar, 2009.
So I do wish I can take the flight on 26th and arrive in Japan on 27th.
Really thank to God and to you all.
Gandalf is alive and well, finally healing after a cyst on his head was removed last week. He was hurting for a few days. We just found out that he's cancer free! Whew. Thanks for your concern guys, that means a lot to me. We're hoping his eye droop improves once the stitches and staple are out. He's still darn handsome though, heehee. ;-)
Great cat. My Number 1.
Contrast
Morning light is refracted through a glass block wall and streams through a louvered laundry room door that scatters rays across the refrigerator.
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: 50 mm
Date taken: 2013-01-20
ISO: 200
Shutter speed: 1 s
Aperture: F 11
Accessories: tripod, cable release
RBD_5366 clone
Handling tips for brand new polymer notes
Before counting a stack of new notes:
• separate the notes by fanning, tapping, shuffling or snapping them;
• we recommend you use your thumb to push the top bill into your other hand.
This was a contender for the cover of the Avmor Collection book. These are the handles of the front door of the Avmore collection building in Old Montreal. The cover ended up to be a painting of the same subject matter since most of the collection is made up of paintings. The image is in the collection as well as in the book.
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MILT CANIFF
The King of the Comic Strips
Milton Caniff
From The Early Years To Terry and the Pirates
Milton Caniff, to most comics fans, will always be regarded as the major leading light of the syndicated comic strip. He was a pioneer of a visual style of story telling that's widely imitated but seldom achieved, establishing innovations that would become a yardstick for all that followed in his footsteps. No major comics artists today remain untouched by his influences.
Milton Caniff was born on February 28, 1907 in Hillsboro, Ohio. His art career began in a significant way when, as a young boy, he discovered a trunk containing drawings by the early newspaper cartoonist, John T. McCutchen. "This was my first inspiration as an artist in wanting to draw pictures at all, " Caniff would recall. The trunk discovery was significant in another way, in the kind of coincidence that usually only happens in fiction, because years later McCutchen helped to launch the famous Terry and the Pirates!
It's likely that Caniff would have become a cartoonist without the trunk. From the very beginning he displayed a talent for art that was amply displayed in school journals and by the eighth grade he had already had a cartoon published in a local paper. By high school he was already freelancing for a newspaper art department, and by the time he reached college Caniff was providing art on the side for the Dayton Journal, the Miami Daily News, and the Columbus Dispatch, while still finding time to attend classes and participate in theatrical productions.
After graduating college Caniff found full time work at the Dispatch, spending nights working on a few abortive comic strip attempts. The new job only lasted a short time when the Depression struck, forcing the Dispatch to downsize.
Caniff's unemployment only lasted a short while; fortunately the Associated Press of New York had noticed clippings of the young artist's work and offered him a job. The timing was right; Caniff arrived in the Big Apple just in time for 1932's Presidential campaign, and his published portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared in papers all across the country, his first national exposure. While at AP the artist met a fellow worker who would equal his own success as a cartoonist, Al Capp. (Appropriately enough it was on April Fool's Day.) The two men became life-long friends and when Capp left the unfunny strip he had been assigned, Mr. Gilfeather, Caniff inherited the feature, turning it into the more palatable The Gay Thirties.
In addition to the single panel feature on life in America, Caniff was given a multi-paneled adventure strip to work on, Dickie Dare. The strip began in July 1933 and featured Dickie's daydreams of fighting along side Robin Hood and his Merry Men, hunting treasure with Long John Silver, and adventuring with Robinson Crusoe. Caniff lasted a year on the strip, which was to continue on until the late fifties, capably handled by Coulton Waugh and his wife, Mabel "Odin" Burvik.
Caniff had gotten a better offer from Colonel Patterson of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate in the fall of 1934. The new job offer came about thanks to another cartoonist who had noticed Caniff's clippings, John McCutchen, the same artist who drew the inspirational cartoons that Caniff had discovered in his mother's trunk!
Patterson had been looking for something similar to Dickie Dare, and exotic adventure strip that featured a leading adult and a youthful sidekick. Caniff filled that bill with Terry and the Pirates, which first appeared on October 22, 1934. The continuity opened with the story of Terry Lee, an American boy, his adult pal Pat Ryan, and a clever Chinese servant named Connie, "chief cook and philosopher." The three set out for an abandoned treasure mine but soon find themselves stranded and penniless in a China swarming with brigands, warlords, and hostile Japanese troops.
Caniff's early work on the strip was good enough for the times but crude in comparison to what would come later. A big boost in his evolution as an artist came from teaming up with another young comics legend, Noel Sickles, the artist on the AP Scorchy Smith strip.
The two men, who had once shared a studio in Ohio, worked in tandem, writing and drawing for each other's strips, in the process developing a novel and time saving method for indicating detail, using a impressionistic brushwork technique known as "chiaroscuro." The technique became Caniff's trademark. As Jules Fieffer once said, "Black is Milton Caniff's primary color."
Caniff's mastery of light and dark, his talent for action scenes and camera angles, and his flair for dramatic storytelling all contributed to the popularity of Terry and the Pirates. Another strength of the strip has been its reliance on realism.
Caniff realized that potential fan interest must be immediately captured in a strip's first year. "Since a person must read the balloons to get the story," Caniff once said, "I thought I could catch them with vivid color and illustrations rather than straight cartoons. This meant that there'd have to be absolute authenticity."
Caniff worked long hours to achieve his goal, consulting with experts in every field. In one sequence involving an amphibious invasion, Caniff dug into thirty-eight books in order to nail down such details as to what military hospitals looked like and whether or not Japanese bombers veered to the right or left when launched from aircraft carriers.
Caniff read every book he could find the Orient, becoming more concerned with the problems China faced from the Japanese invaders, predicting in his strip that an inevitable conflict would break out between the U.S. and Hirohito's Imperial forces.
Pat and Terry shared the strip with an intriguing cast of supporting characters. To name just a few, there was Captain Judas, Burma, Big Stoop, Chopstick Joe, Dude Hennick, Cherry Blaze, Cue Ball, and one of the greatest of femme fatales, The Dragon Lady, who often played both sides of the fence. Caniff was a master of characterization; readers really got to know and care about many of his cast.
This point was amply illustrated in a famous 1941 episode, the death of Raven Sherman. A full week of continuity passed as Raven, wounded by the treacherous Captain Judas, slowly ebbs away on a lonely trail in China until finally, "as it must to every one," she dies. And then, as Caniff says, "The roof fell in!" Caniff was flooded with flower deliveries, mock memorial services, petitions of condolence signed by disparate groups as factory workers and entire colleges, as well as a lot of irate letters. For years afterwards the cartoonist would continue to get black-edged cards on the anniversary of Raven's death. Proving that perhaps, as Caniff put it, "the impacts of both picture and words drives more deeply into human awareness than any anthropologist has yet cared to note."
Perhaps so. But Caniff also noted that Raven was killed in October 1941. "If it had happened two months later, nobody would even remember her name today." Milton Caniff, to most comics fans, will always be regarded as the major leading light of the syndicated comic strip. He was a pioneer of a visual style of story telling that's widely imitated but seldom achieved, establishing innovations that would become a yardstick for all that followed in his footsteps. No major comics artists today remain untouched by his influences.
Two months after Milton Caniff's famous death-of-Raven sequence, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States' role in the Second World War had begun. Caniff had depicted Japan's aggression in China (as well as Japanese-Nazi collaboration) in Terry and the Pirates years before war broke out. "There was no general realization of impending war between Japan and the United States," said Caniff, "but anyone who could read newspapers could put it together. The Sino-Japanese war just served as a beacon for future sequences. I foresaw a terrific struggle for the Allies."
Terry joined in that struggle, having finally grown to young adulthood, and got his wings, becoming a pilot in the air force in China. Pat Ryan, his buddy and mentor, was phased offstage to join the Navy, replaced by another father figure, Colonel Flip Corkin. With the change Terry Lee finally became the sole lead in the strip bearing his name, but the "Pirates," like Pat Ryan, also disappeared.
Caniff stepped up the wartime action, with Terry occasionally joining forces with his old nemesis, the Dragon Lady ("tough as a hash-heavy top sergeant"), as well as a new friend in the strip, the very hip, wise-cracking Hot-Shot Charlie.
Terry and the Pirates soared in popularity during the war years, thanks to Caniff's storytelling and his incredible attention to detail (once buying film reels from the Army Signal Corps to check on a detail about aircraft carriers). Voluntary informants, readers from around the world, aided the artist. Men and women in the armed services provided invaluable information on anything thing from logistics to military uniforms. Caniff returned the favor by designing countless logos and insignias, designing a large number of instruction manuals and posters, and winning numerous citations from the Navy, War, and Treasury Departments.
If Terry and the Pirates helped the war effort by informing and entertaining the civilians, Caniff's Male Call did wonders for the guys in uniform. The strip, which ran uncensored in service newspapers, was heavy on cheesecake and featured the voluptuous Miss Lace, a kind of volunteer Morale Officer, who did her best to cheer up the men, usually by dressing in very low-cut outfits.
The strip's popularity peaked during the war years. During that time Terry had been adapted to radio and comics, and in 1940 James W. Horne directed a movie serial version (in the 1950s there was also a Terry TV series). After the war ended Caniff ran into contractual problems with his syndicate and went over to King Features, with a hefty salary increase and the added bonus of owning whatever strip he created. On December 29, 1946, the last of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates appeared. George Wundar inherited the strip, which would continue on (in some years inked by E.C. artist George Evans) for another 25 years, finally folding in 1973. In 1995 Tribune Media Services resurrected Terry, which was written by Michael Uslan and illustrated by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, later replaced by comics veteran
Dan Spiegle.
Steve Canyon, Caniff's new strip, debuted on January 7, 1946, opening simultaneously in 125 papers throughout the country, a unique distinction for a new strip, but understandable given Caniff's reputation. Steve was a compulsive hero ("the kind of guy who doesn'tlike to see people kicked around"). As Caniff described him in a Time magazine interview, Canyon was intended to be a "sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type. He'llhave lots of gals, one at every port."
Canyon was to be, in Caniff's words, "a picaresque novel," like Cervantes' Don Quixote; a traveler moving from one adventure to the next, accompanied by a friend the hero can talk to (and talk to the reader). In this case, Sancho Panza turned out to be a scrappy oldster, Happy Easter. Caniff also decided to bring in another Terry figure, the teenage Reed Kimberly -- after all, if Steve ever settled down to married life, Caniff needn't abandon any boy-meets-girl plot riffs.
Canyon did meet a lot of women. Many of them, like the cold-blooded Copper Calhoun (a nasty version of Daddy Warbucks), Cheetah (a totally amoral bargirl who would steal Reed's heart and then cheerfully step on it), the hapless Summer Olson (hopelessly in love with Steve and always abused by Ms. Calhoun, her employer), and cousin Poteet Canyon (a teenage version of Happy Easter). "Ninety-five percent of the interest in any fiction is what happens to the women, not what happens to the men," Caniff believed.
Like many other comic strip adventurers, Steve Canyon went on to become a Cold Warrior with the advent of the nineteen fifties, reentering the air Force after the outbreak of the Korean war. Steve found time between adventures in various Third World hotspots to finally marry Summer Olson in 1970 and after the Vietnam war became entangled in a number of marital problems that eventually resulted in a separation.
The Vietnam war also caused a number of problems for the strip itself, as the mood of the many Americans was definitely not in tune with military adventures. And as newspapers around the country began to shrink the panel size of their strips to make room for all-important advertising, Caniff's strip, like most realistic strips, began losing its effectiveness. As the aging Caniff began experiencing health problems, he was forced to drop penciling chores, which were then handled by Dick Rockwell (nephew of illustrator Norman Rockwell) and concentrate on writing and inking it.
Although ill heath couldn't keep the artist from the drawing board, he finally succumbed to lung cancer in 1988. Steve Canyon survived him by several weeks, after 41 years of continuity. Caniff's awards, which included two Reubens for his two strips, were numerous but the last Steve Canyon, dated June 4, was a final, wonderful tribute: it was two panels, one drawn by the legendary war cartoonist Bill Mauldin, the other signed by 78 fellow artists of the field he loved. Milton Caniff will be long remembered.
--Steve Stiles
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Milton Caniff
Birth nameMilton Arthur Paul Caniff
BornFebruary 28, 1907
Hillsboro, Ohio
DiedMay 3, 1988 (aged 81)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)artist
Notable worksDickie Dare
Terry and the Pirates
Steve Canyon
Awardsfull list
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
Early life
Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Caniff had done some cartoons for local newspapers as a teenager, while studying at Stivers School for the Arts. Shortly after matriculating at the Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1930, Caniff began a career in journalism by applying to the Columbus Dispatch. There he worked with the noted cartoonist William "Billy" Ireland until Caniff's position was eliminated.
While at Ohio State, Caniff joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and later provided illustrations for The Magazine of Sigma Chi and The Norman Shield (the fraternity's pledgeship/reference manual).
Cartoonist
In 1932, Caniff moved to New York City to accept an artist position in the Features Service of the Associated Press. He did general assignment art for several months, then inherited a panel cartoon called Mister Gilfeather in September 1932 when Al Capp left the feature. Caniff continued Gilfeather until the spring of 1933, when it was retired in favor of a generic comedy in a panel cartoon called The Gay Thirties, which he produced until he left AP in the fall of 1934. In July 1933, Caniff began an adventure fantasy strip, Dickie Dare, influenced by series such as Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford.[1] The eponymous central character was a youth who dreamed himself into adventures with such literary and legendary persons as Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe and King Arthur. In the spring of 1934, Caniff changed the strip from fantasy to "reality" when Dickie no longer dreamed his adventures but experienced them as he traveled the world with a freelance writer, Dickie's adult mentor, "Dynamite Dan" Flynn.
In 1934, Caniff was hired by the New York Daily News to produce a new strip, Terry and the Pirates, the strip which made Caniff famous.[1] Like Dickie Dare, Terry began the strip as a boy who is traveling in China with an adult mentor and freelance writer, Pat Ryan. But over the years the title character aged and by World War II he was old enough to serve in the Army Air Force. During the twelve years that Caniff produced the strip, he introduced many fascinating characters, most of whom were "pirates" of one kind or another--Burma, a blonde with a mysterious possibly criminal past; Chopstick Joe, a Chinese petty criminal; Singh Singh, a warlord in the mountains of China; Judas, a smuggler; Sanjak, a lesbian; and then boon companions such as Hotshot Charlie, Terry's wing man during the War years; Connie and Big Stoop, a Chinese Jeff and Mutt (in stature) who followed Terry and Pat Ryan around the country; and April Kane, a young woman who was Terry's first love. But Caniff's most memorable creation was the Dragon Lady, a pirate queen; she was seemingly ruthless and calculating, but Caniff encouraged his readers to think she had romantic yearnings for Pat Ryan.
Lai Choi San, the Dragon Lady, Milton Caniff's most iconic character from Terry And the Pirates (©2006 by Tribune Media Services)
During the war, Caniff began a second strip, a special version of Terry and the Pirates without Terry but featuring the blonde bombshell, Burma. Caniff donated all of his work on this strip to the armed forces -- the strip was only available in military newspapers. After complaints from the Miami Herald about the military version of the strip being published by military newspapers in the Herald's circulation territory, the strip was renamed Male Call and given a new star, Miss Lace, a beautiful woman who lived near every military base on the planet and enjoyed the company of enlisted men, but not officers. Her function, Caniff often said, was to remind service men what they were fighting for, and while the situations in the strip brimmed with double entendre, Miss Lace was not, as far as she appeared in the strip, a loose woman, but she "knew the score." Far more so than civilian comic strips which portrayed military characters, Male Call was notable for its honest depiction of what the servicemen were up against: one strip showed Miss Lace dating a soldier on leave who had lost an arm; another strip had her escorting a blinded ex-serviceman. Caniff continued Male Call until seven months after V-J Day, ending it in March 1946.[2]
The year 1946 also saw the end of Caniff's association with Terry and the Pirates. While the strip was a major success, it was not owned by its creator but by its distributing syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News, a common practice with syndicated comics at the time. And when Caniff was offered the chance to own his own strip by Marshall Field, publisher of the Chicago Sun, the cartoonist left Terry to produce a strip for Field Enterprises. Caniff produced his last strip of Terry and the Pirates in December 1946 and introduced his new strip Steve Canyon in the Chicago Sun-Times the following month.[1] At the time, Caniff was one of only two or three syndicated cartoonists who owned their creations, and he attracted considerable publicity as a result of this circumstance.
Steve Canyon
Like his previous strip, Steve Canyon was an action strip with a pilot as its main character. Canyon was originally portrayed as a civilian pilot with his own one-airplane cargo airline, but he re-enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War and remained in the Air Force for the remainder of the strip's run.
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, although not gaining the popularity of Terry and the Pirates, nevertheless enjoyed greater longevity.
While Steve Canyon never achieved the popularity that Terry and the Pirates had at its height as a World War II military adventure or the cult fame Terry generated over the years, it was a successful comic strip with a greater circulation than Terry ever had. A short-lived Steve Canyon television series was produced in 1958, marking the height of the strip's fame. The title character's dedication to the military (Steve Canyon was often termed the "unofficial spokesman" for the Air Force) produced a negative reaction among readers during the Vietnam War, and the strip dropped in circulation as a result. Caniff nonetheless continued to enjoy enormous regard in the profession and in newspapering, and he produced the strip until his death in 1988. The strip was continued for a couple months after he died, but it soon expired, too, in June 1988.
Recognition and awards
Caniff was one of the founders of the National Cartoonist Society and served two terms as its President, 1948 and 1949. He also received the Society's first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1947, nominally for his new comic strip, Steve Canyon, but since the award covered work published in 1946, it embraced Terry and the Pirates as well. Caniff would be named Cartoonist of the Year again, receiving the accompanying trophy, the Reuben, in 1972 for 1971, again for Steve Canyon. He was also named to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1988. He received the National Cartoonist Society Elzie Segar Award in 1971, the Award for Story Comic Strip in 1979 for Steve Canyon, the Gold Key Award (the Society's Hall of Fame) in 1981, and NCS has since named the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor.
Caniff died in New York City.
Followers
Along with Hal Foster and Alex Raymond, Caniff's style would have a tremendous influence on the artists who drew American comic books in the first half of the 20th century. Evidence of his influence can be clearly seen in the work of comic book artists such as Jack Kirby, Frank Robbins, Lee Elias, Bob Kane, Mike Sekowski, Dick Dillin,John Romita,Sr. and Johnny Craig to name just a mere handful.
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A baby frog my friend Jessica managed to coax into (well, onto) her hand. There were literally hundreds of these little guys at Rock Cut, and I want to go back, and do a picture with them all. They are so cute. :D
But yeah, this is a little blurry, but I really don't care, because I think it's pretty regardless, and that's what I'm trying to remember what photography is all about - What I like.
Formspring <---Ask/tell me anything. I love getting questions.
#ds372: "Make a photograph dominated by horizontal lines or compositional elements that go all the way across the frame." www.dailyshoot.com/assignments/372
The handle of a perhaps once blue (currently dusty) file cabinet drawer.