#hobo life

[labellenouvelle]

AMERICANA HOBO WHISTLES

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[kidney-pebble]

This feels like a good thing to start off the drawing tag.

Eyestrain warning

@randalekobolt ‘s OC Carl blackout drunk on you-don’t-want-to-know-what-this-is. And some possums.

In my defense it was an “only use the default ibispaint colors” challenge. I’m surprisingly happy with this

[ahobowithabmx]

Got stabbed in glasgow, skated to Carlisle for a cheap train to Liverpool spent the day then got a cheaper train to London lmaoo I'm now here 🤷‍♂️

[popculturelib]

Interesting Find of the Week: Hobo Camp Fire Tales (1911) and Mother Delcassee of the Hobos: And Other Stories (1918) by A-No. 1

Hobos are a kind of migrant worker who travel around the country looking for work. They particularly make use of freight trains to move between cities and towns, an act known as "trainhopping" or "freighthopping." The peak hobo years in the United States were between the American Civil War and World War II, when trains were easier to board and itinerant labor more in demand.

Leon Ray Livingston (1872-1944), also known by his moniker "A-No. 1," was a hobo author who wrote around a dozen books about hobos and hobo life. As "America's Most Celebrated Tramp" -- as he called himself in the title of his first book -- A-No. 1 created an important record, albeit an embellished one, of a people and culture that was often excluded from written histories.

Here, we show the covers of the 2nd and 9th books in A-No. 1's writings on hobos, as well as the back cover and back endpaper of book 9. Note how the endpaper claims that hobo life is a "horrible existence;" towards the end of his life, A-No. 1 spoke against going on "the Road" after his negative experiences. This is perhaps why the back of Mother Delcassee features William Tyler Page's "The American Creed." Transcripts are below the read more.

If you're interested in reading more about hobos and hobo life, check out these other books in our collection:

Around the Jungle Fire I: A Collection of Original Hobo Poetry (1994) by Oats

Beggars of Life (1924) by Jim Tully

Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography (1988) as told to Ben L. Reitman

Hard Travellin': The Hobo and His History (1967) by Kenneth Allsop

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man: A Study Prepared for the Chicago Council of Social Agencies (1961) by Nels Anderson

Tales of an American Hobo (1989) by Charles Elmer Fox

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

Transcript to the back page of Mother Delcassee:

The American Creed "I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag and to defend it against all enemies." -- William Tyler Page

Transcript of the endpaper of Mother Delcassee:

A List of the Books On Tramp Life Written by ->A-No 1<- The Tramp Author The First Book Life and Adventures of A-No. 1 The Second Book Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales The Third Book The Curse of Tramp Life The Fourth Book The Trail of the Tramp The Fifth Book The Adventures of a Female Tramp The Sixth Book The Ways of the Hobo The Seventh Book The Snare of the Road The Eighth Book From Coast to Coast with Jack London The Ninth Book Mother Delcassee of the Hoboes Each title deals with a different phase of the horrible existence that is nowadays voluntarily led by more than three hundred thousand chronic hoboes, so that everybody, especially restless youths will find the contents of each volume an everlasting warning against the road. The Author has carefully avoided the least mention of anything that would be unfit reading for ladies or children. A complete set of these moral and entertaining Books should be in every home.

[jacksamstagart]

Some signs I've flown. Sorcery pays well enough.

Boons banes scrys, curses too,

All sorts of spellcraft I'll do for you!

SORCERER FOR HIRE! Best prices in town, I got the gwunch for you lemme tellya.

[buubonita]

Can u see it?

[biglisbonnews]

Listen to a firsthand account of hobo life in new "City of the Rails" podcast City of the Rails is a new podcast from Journalist Danelle Morton whose daughter "Ruby" left home to ride freight trains after graduating from high school. She goes searching for her child and ends up documenting a slice of American life few will ever know personally. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/02/09/listen-to-a-firsthand-account-of-hobo-life-in-new-city-of-the-rails-podcast.html

[gleafer]

You've probably been asked this before-- but how did you learn to draw like that? It's incredible, your likenesses especially. Amazes me every time I check your page. I know the answer is probably mostly Time and then More Time, but is there anything in particular that you think helped? Timed sketches? A certain way of doing studies? Any book recommendations?

*Runs through wall a la Kool Aid Man to answer this question because HOLY HELL DO ARTISTS LIKE TALKING ABOUT THEMSELVES*

Ahem!

Well! The very best, yet worst, but really best thing I’ve ever done to get good at drawing facial expressions was to do three military tours…er…summer seasons at Great America as a caricature artist!

Nothing will give you the practice needed to up your skillset quite like drawing for 13 hours straight while being heckled by large groups of overly sugared, vicious teenagers for 12 weeks in sweltering summer heat.

YOU SUUUUUUCK! Became my battle cry instead of inner monologue of art student sadness.

Thick skin grew, as did my ability to draw likenesses and expressions. (Granted most of the expressions I drew were of boyfriend’s faces all stupidly sappy, ogling their girlfriend who were drawn extra sassy with obnoxious eyelashes. But that’s just how you do with caricatures.)

Anywho!

I’m not saying you have to go join a traveling circus of caricature artists to test your artist’s metal (though it wouldn’t hurt and you’ll have a bounty of bizarre stories for the grandkids when alls said and done!)

However, practicing everyday, while pushing comfort levels and being brave with your lines, will improve your art/illustrations.

And if you think having groups of teenagers making fun of your art, loudly hinting your fashion sense is severely lacking and “DID YOU EVEN ART SCHOOL??” while sticky, little kids swarm into your personal space to the point of almost crawling into your mouth as their parents wander off to the beer garden would actually help you, Great America is always hiring…

for fresh SOULS!

🎶just keep drawing! Just keep drawing!🎶-Dori, probably

[tea-tuesday]

recently, i went to visit a friend in nevada and had a great time exploring cafés, bookstores, and vintage shops !! i fell in love with this portable royal typewriter with dark green keys but wasn't able to take it home with me :'((

[cuddlebugmonster]

Do y'all ever go crazy and just decide to completely redesign a character because for some reason he just looked wrong the more you looked at him ?

Yeah me neither

[juiche]

I recently binged Daredevil. And then binged it again ☺️

get your own print here ❤️

[b08a-arts]

You're Cute || Narumitsu/Wrightworth

[ratgingi]

i havent (properly) drawn a dialed town character in way too long. happy birfday oliber my best friemd oliber

[bricktoygrapher]

Simple life 🧔

[mikayesha]

feeling like a saggy massive sack of shit

[avalordream]

Derek: After journeying for seven nights and seven days, the party finally comes across the old decrepit bridge that leads to the hillside where some goats are grazing!

Baxter: Child's play. I roll a stealth check to see if there is anything nearby and walk under the bridge.

Baxter: Rolls a fucking one.

Derek: Evidently, you see nothing but trip over someone sleeping.

Cove: A HOBO?!