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The Fighting 69th And 1/2!

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  When I was a kid, this cartoon could be seen once a week on the Dallas after school cartoon shows.  2 days ago I decided to look for it, I could not remember the name or the studio.  This is Merrie Melodies, Warner Brothers, The Fighting 69 1/2th.  In it two armies of ants clash over a picnic. https://www.b98.tv/video/fighting-69-%C2%BDth/    When scouts discover the picnic a tussle ensues over an olive.  Of course you know, this means war. The Black Ants are more than up to the task, and are shown as superb fighters. This cartoon is a 'funny' version of trench warfare.  The only fight the U. S. Army was in between 1918 and 1941 was the Bonus Army disgrace, so this is what the animators knew and showed as warfare.  Here is the Black Army chemical corps. Here Douglas MacArthur and his Aide-de-Camp Dwight Eisenhower oversee the operation of clearing the desperately poor unarmed WWI veterans off of Anacostia Flats, July 28, 1932.  Major G...
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The Voyage Of LIfe

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  Thomas Cole.  Childhood. Youth. Manhood. Old Age. Credited as the founder of the Hudson River School, Cole was a master at depicting nature. He was born in England and died at age 47. These huge paintings are in the National Gallery, when I was stationed in D. C. I would spend hours looking at them.
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The Course Of Empire

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  Portrait of Thomas Cole by Asher Brown Durand, 1837. The Savage State. The Arcadian or Pastoral State. The Consummation. Destruction. Desolation. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire. 1833 - 1838. The United States has left Consummation and entered Destruction. Our politicians are of very mixed quality, and scoundrels lurk on both sides of the aisle. Here is Huey Long, ha ha, on the differences between the parties: https://youtu.be/KvZb8y7Cp7w  
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Fritz Eichenberg, a Halloween tribute!

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   Dame Folly Speaks The Follies Of Old Age The Follies Of Princely Power The Follies Of Teaching The Follies Of The Court The Follies Of The Monks The Follies Of The Popes The Follies Of War The Follies Of Worshiping Idols    The Human Comedy The Dream Of Reason This portfolio of ten wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, based on Desiderius Erasmus' famous Humanist tract, was published by the Aquarius Press of New York and Baltimore in 1972 in two editions. The principal edition consisted of 150 sets of the engravings, in a custom clamshell box. This copy is one of ten Collaborator's sets, each of which includes one of the cancelled blocks created by Eichenberg for the project. The block, housed in a well in the portfolio, was engraved for plate 5, "The Follies of Teaching"; the ten engravings are numbered V/X Almost all of the Collaborator's portfolios are in institutional collections. This edition is rarely available for sale. The Peacea...
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