Walt Disney Comics – November 1946
Here is another comic from my father’s collection from when he was a boy:
Walt Disney Comics – October 1946
Posted by thellum in Comic, Heh, Historical, Joy on February 3, 2012
I am planning on scanning in a large series of comic books my father bound into a now ricketty old book when he was a child. The first comic in the collection is now scanned and ready for download as a PDF. You can get it here. Its pretty low in resolution to keep the size down. As it is, its just over 6 megabytes.
A Geisha
Finn decided out of the blue (to her parents, at least) to go Hallowe’ening as a Geisha girl this year. It was to be a mix of Mulan and a Geisha, but we talked it through and Mulan might have been less what she had in mind in the end, as many of the attributes she wanted as Mulan turned out to be those of what she also (rightly, as it turns out) thinks of a geisha.
Without having gone into any detail regarding the historical nature of geishas and their role in Japanese society (ahem) with her, I sallied forth today to paint her up as a geisha for a pre-Halloween party this afternoon and evening. And so here is what she looks like today:
December 20, 1960
Posted by thellum in Beauty, Historical, love, Sad on October 28, 2011
In late December 1960, my parents were married in Montreal, PQ. My future mother and father were then 28 and 27 years old. So young! I was 37 when I married Carrie… Yet, my future parents in these photographs look older than I felt when I was married, older even than I feel now.
Their marriage has come and gone, but left three children in its wake and five grand children (three by marriage). Its so interesting to look at the people in these images, know many of them well, ponder on the futures that lay before them. I wish I had known my grandparents better. Granny Bets, my maternal grandmother – such a mystery. I have scanned her face in these images gleaning detail to flesh out this person who is so closely connected to me and yet an utter stranger (she passed away when I was a small child); I was afraid of her. Similarly, the imposing figure of my paternal grandfather, Grandpa Gus. I have dim recollections of him as a seven year when my father and I visited Norway in 1971. He seemed so much bigger and more important than me. He was always serious. My maternal grandfather I knew better – Grandpa Will; he Christmas’d with us for many years out west, flying from Montreal (and the house many of these photographs were taken in!). I wish I’d paid more attention to his pilot stories from WWI. I was afraid of him.
And my mother, here at 28. So beautiful! I love her wedding dress, understated and utterly elegant. She looks so happy. My father looks a little bewildered, much like I felt 41 years later on my own wedding day. My goodness he was/is a handsome man.
Enough prattle, here are some scans of beautifully-printed, but poorly taken images from my parents’ wedding December 20, 1960:
L toR: Al Aldred, August Hellum, Betty Spriggs, Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
L to R facing: August Hellum, William Spriggs, Doreen Simmons, Al Aldred, Patricia Spriggs
L to R: Doreen Simmons, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Patricia Spriggs
Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Kåre Hellum and Hilary Spriggs
Kåre Hellum and Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Receiving line L to R: Al Aldred, Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
L to R: Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Anglican Minister John Kerr.
L to R: Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Patricia Spriggs
L to R: August Hellum, Betty Spriggs, Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Patricia Spriggs
Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
L to R: Frank Hanson Sr., Patricia Spriggs, unknown person
Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
L to R: Doreen Simmons, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Patricia Spriggs
L to R: William Spriggs, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Betty Spriggs
Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs)
L to R: Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Al Aldred, Patricia Spriggs, Doreen Simmons
L to R: David Spriggs, August Hellum, Doreen Simmons, Al Aldred, Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), William Spriggs, Patricia Spriggs, John Spriggs, Frank Hanson, Jr.
Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Kåre Hellum
L to R: August Hellum, Kåre Hellum, Hilary Hellum (née Spriggs), Betty Spriggs, William Spriggs
The Focused Eye- Walt Disney Comics – November 1946 February 5, 2012
- Walt Disney Comics – October 1946 February 4, 2012
- A Geisha October 30, 2011
- December 20, 1960 October 28, 2011
- Adobe Pixel Bender examples… October 15, 2011