![]() ![]() It’s a slower tool than a brush and I work quickly. (I’ve tried using a pen like this on my political cartoons off and on over the years but never felt completely comfortable. I am doing cartooning that a Civil War cartoonist could have been doing! I am indeed an ink-stained wretch (the classic description of a journalist)ī. I’ll post some of these rough draft pages soon for you to see how I put a book together, but here you can see thatĪ. The work I was doing was a rough draft of a Revolutionary War comic I’m doing in cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (Which was a great use of time because I had a deadline to meet!!!) So here’s the reverb: I’m a freelance cartoonist who draws history who is, in this photo, portraying a Civil War freelance cartoonist who draws history with historically-accurate tools. I’m sure I’ll be a bluecoat soldier at some point, but for now it’s easy to act as a cartoonist freelancing for a New York newspaper while embedded with the 79th New York Volunteers unit! My son Truman and I did our first Civil War reenactment last weekend at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum. Posted in Civil War, History Book Review | No Comments » Civil War Cartoonist Written on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Bentley Boyd, Chester the Crab, Civil War, history, telegraph Clearly he was frustrated, observing to a fellow general that dealing with Lee ‘had occupied two hours of his time each day, Washington had required the remainder.'” “It might be argued that the telegraph’s intrusion had sapped (General) Hooker of his authority. And a great reminder of what a jerk Union General George McClellan was! This is a fast read that could have moved a little more slowly than the speed of Morse code. That hierarchy of human communication still exists today!īut more often Wheeler’s book is a simple review of the events of the Civil War. There are glimmers of this kind of analysis in Wheeler’s book – such as when he notes Lincoln’s own perceptive view that a telegraph message ranked below a handwritten letter and far below face-to-face talking in its effectiveness. A decade into the e-mail practice, we all know now how e-mail can be used or NOT used to get a point across to friends, co-workers, bosses or others. He repeats his thesis over and over rather than to push his analysis into secondary or tertiary levels of description of how lightning-fast communication could be manipulated for the sender’s purpose. Lincoln’s T-Mails.” Wheeler’s thesis is a fine one - that Abraham Lincoln’s use of the new technology of the telegraph mirrors our own experience with the new form of communication we call e-mail - but this book reads more like a long piece in the New Yorker than a book. There’s going to be a lot of blue and gray around, and I’m preparing to do a comic entirely on Honest Abe!Īs research for that, I just finished reading Tom Wheeler’s “Mr. Get ready for a lot more Lincoln – next year is the bicentennial of his birth, and a nationwide commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War will also gear up next year. If anything, Lincoln was LESS experienced at the time of his election than Obama is now: Lincoln had only one 2-year term in the House of Representatives and was a complete dark horse candidate at the Republican convention in the summer of 1860 and a shock to the East Coast establishment when he got the nomination. I enjoyed all the comparisons between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln made at the Democratic National Convention this week. Lincoln’s T-Mails by Tom Wheeler Written on Friday, August 29th, 2008 ![]()
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