At Ease

Now, with even more time on my hands than usual- the old 9 to 5 not having worked out for lack of interest in pursuing its tedium- I was amusing myself this morning by looking at a bunch of childish retro nonsense when I returned back to the comfortable confines of literary pursuits (or the pursuit of literary figures, a more accurate description).

William Falkner is who I am talking about. No misspelling there, I am referring to the William Faulkner before he rose to the top, when he used his family name without an additional "u".  It turns out that one of his kinfolk was a famous writer, now of course forgotten, and young William did not want to be in his shadow, which is a laudable move (given our age which seems more prone to nepotism than any).

With that little chit chat out of the way, I saw that in the University of Mississippi days, young Falkner contributed not only his written works to the Annual but also some drawings- of which this is one example, and quite fun (although dated, as any graphic eye can tell you which time period this is from). As a side-note, my other Southern favorite (Flannery O'Connor) also tried her hand at cartooning.