Mom Classics Cartoon 9-25-25

 

A recent digitally-drawn cartoon of mine, based on a real mom quotation. 

Mister Crowley

 An experiment artificial intelligence created on 31 March, 2023. At one time, the Dream Deep program resulted in some unsettling and engaging psychedelic permutations of imagery. I abandoned using it eventually, as the move toward AI created ethical concerns -- plus the results were unsatisfactory, having a uniform fantasy-airbrush appearance. I'll make an exception and post this already-made work, which resulted from me inputting photos of Aleister Crowley, and a collage using the dust jacket from Colin Wilson's book The Occult (among other things). I added a tad to it. The piece did end up with a super creepy feel to it. 

17 Years of Adalbert/Xothique

 To celebrate the 17th anniversary of this blog, here's a new cartoon I drew (digitally) recently: An imagined trip, including both Ken Kesey and John Creasey on the bus, Furthur. Their lifespans overlapped in part, although they belonged to different generations. Outside of a slight similarity in their names, and the fact both were writers, they had few similarities in their approaches.

-JBF

Slide Photo: Dutch Harbor, Alaska

 

Slide photo by Bruce W. Falk; WWII-era Naval station, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, circa 1958. 

Cartoon: Mom Classics 2

 

Parental Snapshot, circa 1951

 

A photo of my father (Bruce W. Falk), circa 1951. From a negative.

Slide Photo: Sports Car Racing in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1958

 

Parental (Bruce W., and Hazel M. Falk) slide: "Sports car racing, Fairbanks, 4-58."

New Cartoon

 

A new cartoon I created (drawn digitally), based on my mother's accounts of a restaurant operated by Greek immigrants, where she was employed as a waitress. The time frame was toward the end of World War Two. 

Slide Photo: El Morro Inscription Rock, 1958

 

Parental slide photo (by Bruce W., or Hazel M. Falk). Inscription Rock, El Morro National Monument, New Mexico; circa 1958. 

Normalcy (2025 Collage)

 A recent digital collage of mine: Normalcy (2025; with material from newspapers.com). -JBF

1989 Photo

 

A photo of me, from 1989; when I had recently returned from Eugene, Oregon. -JBF

Kamakura, 5 December, 2024

 

A photo I took; Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan; 5 December, 2024. The moon and Venus appeared behind stacks of fulgent clouds; crows flew and rasped in mystery, about the evocative statue.