Klarinet Archive - Posting 000664.txt from 2003/07

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tijuana Bibles for Dan
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:27:40 -0400

That's the one!! Can I be accused of influencing people into evil ways
by this posting???

Dan

Diane Karius wrote:
>
> If I'm not mistaken:
>
> Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies,
> 1930S-1950s
> by Bob Adelman, Richard Merkin, Art Spiegelman
> Hardcover: 160 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 9.32 x 12.06
> Publisher: Simon & Schuster; (September 1997)
> ISBN: 0684834618
>
> Amazon.com price: $16.80
>
> Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Physiology
> University of Health Sciences
> 1750 Independence Ave.
> Kansas City, MO 64106
> (816)-283-2219
> dkarius@-----.edu
> http://courses.uhs.edu/physio/index.htm
>
> >>> leeson0@-----.net 07/23/03 03:44PM >>>
> I'm in Washington, DC right now and had an interesting experience. I
> had a brief 15 minutes to run over to Border books to check out a date
> in Grove's dictionary. After I found it, I was heading towards the
> exit
> when I saw a copy of a book called "Tijuana Bibles" on a reading
> table.
>
> For those unfamiliar with the term, "Tijuana Bible," they were little
> 8
> page, crudely drawn, pornographic booklets, that began to be printed
> in
> the 1920s. I saw my first one as a kid under a porch, -- holding
> hands
> with a girl named Zelda -- in the late 1930s. They were all the same
> except that the characters varied. In one it might be Popeye and
> Olive
> Oil, in another it might be Blondie and Dagwood. That was sex
> education
> in the 1930s and 40s. (Be patient. I'm getting to my clarinet
> surprise
> in a moment.)
>
> Anyway, as I went through this very carefully-crafted and scholarly
> book, I noticed that the material was divided up by this or that
> parameter, one of which showed cartoon characters, another drawings of
> famous people in various (on often bizarre and/or unachievable)
> positions. This included very bad cartoons depicting May West, Cary
> Grant, Fay Wray, Joan Blondell, etc. And on plate 105, in all his
> naked
> glory was Benny Goodman in a Tijuana Bible depicting a variety of
> activities with a woman who was, apparently, awestruck by his giant
> clarinet, namely the one that did not have keys on it.
>
> No kidding. This hand-drawn, crudely pornographic Tijuana Bible, had
> Benny doing things that, even in my salad days, I would have been
> unable
> to duplicate. It was worlds more sophisticated than the one I saw of
> Mutt and Jeff with two charmers named Tillie and Tessie under the
> porch
> with Zelda in 1939.
>
> At that point, I had to go back to my meeting at the Marriott Hotel.
> All
> I could wonder as I went back to the meeting suite was if Benny might
> have had a low C on that thing!! It was certainly long enough.
>
> I was hilariously entertained by the discovery. I didn't have a
> pencil
> with me to write down the publisher or ISBN number. Will someone look
> that up and post it to klarinet (Title: "Tijuana Bibles" and published
> in 1997). Then everyone can run out, buy a copy of the book and try
> to
> achieve what I now refer to as "The Clarinetist's Position" (if you
> can
> get one's legs at that kind of an angle).
>
> --
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> *leeson0@-----.net*
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