lifestealtober2023 day 8 - team

Sonia Delaunay

Compositions, Couleurs, Idées, 36 plates

1930

art by @theamazingspino

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First African American in the Great War

Brave men and women from my new book

The young man on the drawing is Bob Scanlon. He was the very first African American, who joined the First World War where he showed extreme bravery. Here, he is drawn by a fellow-volunteer, the artist John Jocob Casey who like Scanlon 'for the duration of the war' joined The French Foreign Legion in Paris on 25 August 1914.

Bob Scanlon - whose real non-artistic name was Bob Lewis - was a talented boxer from Mobile in Alabama and came to Europe in 1907. Most of his boxing career was in France, where he amongst others sparred with the legenday Jack Johnson.

'Jack' Casey was an illustrator and artist from San Francisco. He had studied at the Mark Hopkins Department of Fine Arts of the University of California, the Art Students' League in New York, the Boston Museum and the New York School of Fine Arts. He had frequently exhibited his paintings with success at expositions in America and in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Francais.

Casey was wounded at the Battle of Champagne in 1915 and ended drawing maps for the French Army, and Scanlon  - who otherwise was considered to be born under a lucky star - was wounded at Verdun in 1916 when his famous left hand was hit by a shell case. But they both survived the war.

Bob Scanlon plays a key role in my book: Fighting for the French Foreign Legion.

Every time I see that post glorifying the gay pride, soldiers and lovers, and overall homo-eroticism of la Legión on my dash I die a bit inside 💀

well well well well, would you look at that, it seems my shoe remains uneaten

MENOS MAL Q HACE TERAPIA HERMANAS dios barba mandame uno así, yo lo quiero a el

Loki, Mobius, & Sylvie from Loki (August 20, 2023) at the Las Cruces Comic Con

Modeling by NJ, Bee, & Finnix, photography by Matt

“I think that the fact that we are anonymous,” continues the gay artist, “and choose to remain anonymous at this time -- in this article -- is in itself, the strongest indication of where society is at right now, and how homophobic comics and the industry is, and can be. Obviously, if the industry was not homophobic, we would not be thinking twice about remaining anonymous. That is the biggest damnation of the industry, the fact that we still choose to remain anonymous at this time. That says it all.”

Highlights from the Out of the Closet and into the Comics - Gays in Comics: The Creations and the Creators Part II feature from Amazing Heroes #144, 1st July 1988, this time focusing on DC Comics.

I don't know why I didn't expect every single variation of the Land Raider chassis to get its own sprue, but I didn't.

Dawnstar by Gene Gonzalez

El Tercio “Don Juan de Austria” 3º de la Legión Española

African American Fighting for France 1914

Brave men and women from my new book

The 28-year-old Boxing Champion Bob Scanlon was amongst the first forty-four Americans who joined the Great War as a volunteer in the French Foreign Legion in Paris in August 1914. He came from Mobile in Alabama but came to France already in 1907 where he had most of his boxing career. He was Light Heavyweight Champion and sparred amongst others with the famous Jack Johnson. He was friend and “compis de combat” with Eugene Bullard and David Kind who are two of the protagonists in my new book. The picture is a postcard of Scanlon which he signed in Paris in 1931 for his friend Glover Compton, a famous jazz musician. You will meet all four men and read their fascinating stories in my new book: Fighting for The French Foreign Legion – Americans who joined the first world war in 1914.