ASK/Chicago: A BLAST FROM THE PAST: Today In Cartoon + Comic Art History.
Had it been a foggy and
rainy day when hardly anyone attempts to go out, even if it is only 2 days
before Christmas, what happened to me 24 years ago tonight at 6 PM would have
never happened. That is when I was followed into my apartment building, beat up,
robbed and left for dead in a puddle of blood - my own! But that
was then and today’s today and yesterday’s gone as the old song says.
After I lived through Hurricane
Camille on Sunday August 17, 1969 in New Orleans with 4 of my 5 family members,
I always felt I was living on Borrowed Time, but this was a bit too close to
home – only 10 steps away from the safe and warm confines of my apartment.
Crime has not gotten any
better; as a matter of fact, it has gotten worse and Crime is now classified as
Terrorism Attacks – but this was your Homegrown Violence that often happens in Big
Cities.
How I fought back was
through The Creation of the most unique Comic & Cartoon Art Campaign that
was ever invented to that point in time that helped educate people of being better
able to navigate their surroundings. Art
flew in from Cairo to Australia; across the USA; Canada and even Cuba when the
Embargo was in full bloom. Prisoners
heard about the crusade and those remorseful for the crimes they committed even
helped me to TOON OUT CRIME. I received 3 Letters of Endorsement from President
William J. Clinton as Crime Prevention was #1 on his agenda; Mayor Richard M.
Daley made October 25Th CARTOONISTS AGAINST CRIME Day honoring my
Comic Artists and Governor Jim Edgar of Illinois (at my urging) declared December
3 DAY WITHOUT CRIME ©1993.
Slews of Articles
appeared; 4 Shows were set into action and The Campaign to TOON OUT CRIME ©1991
brought out artists from across the world as they knew how precarious Life can
be and that crime happens in a nano-second and changes a person forever.
I am merely touching
upon this today as we all must play it safer and the one thing you should
remember is to trust your GUT INSTINCTS.
Going down MEMORY LANE,
here’s 2 of my fave Articles:
Cartoonists Against
Terrorism – Article penned by Jennifer
M. Contino
http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/may02/art_0502_1.shtml
Real Crimefighter Seeks Comics` Help
April 03, 1992|By A. Dahleen
Glanton.
CARTOONISTS AGAINST CRIME
©1991 turned into CARTOONISTS AGAINST TERRORISM ©2001 after The Twin Towers in
NYC fell. We can all what we can to help
make the world safer – with whatever Talents we have.
For any and all questions;
for interviews; to know more about the Collection & writings, feel free to contact me here on Facebook as
this is a topic very near and dear to my Artistic & Creative Growth the
last 63 years.
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