Carl Sandburg's "CHICAGO"

"Hog Butcher for the World"" © 2000 Kurt Mitchell

"Toolmaker, Stacker of Wheat" © 2000 Kurt Mitchell

"Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freighthandler" © 2000 Kurt Mitchell

"Stormy, Husky, Brawling City of Big Shoulders" © 2000 Kurt Mitchell

OXBLUUD (Graphic Novel Property)

OXBLUUD © 2006 Kurt D. Mitchell

OXBLUUD © 2006 Kurt D. Mitchell

OXBLUUD © 2006 Kurt D. Mitchell

OXBLUUD © 2006 Kurt D. Mitchell

Poetry

Opossum O'Reilly

a poem

by Kurt Mitchell

Opossum O'Reilly

Ain't one o' dem fools

Dat talk about woikin',

But ain't got no tools.

Ya know, all dem guys

Dat sit on da bench...

He ain't one o' dem!

He picks up a wrench!

He knows about faucets,

He knows about drains.

When it's time to work

He never complains.

Dere's no job too big!

Dere's no job too small!

When it comes to plumbin',

Yeah, he does it all!

If youse got a spigot

Dat's startin' to drip,

Just tell 'im to fix it,

He'll give ya no lip.

If youse got a bathtub,

But ain't got no sink...

If youse got a toilet

Dat's startin' to stink...

If youse got a garden

But ain't got no hose,

He'll bring one right over.

He's got lotsa dose.

If youse got some laundry

Dat hasta get clean,

He'll hook up a big, brand new

Washin' machine.

If youse got a problem

With plumbin' or water

He'll fix it right up

So it does what it oughter.

If your pipes are leakin'

O'Reilly 'll mend 'em.

He did dat for me,

So I do recommend 'im.

He's always on time.

He's always polite.

But he never works days,

He only works nights.

So give 'im a call

When you need a plumber.

Dere ain't many smarter,

But dere are lots dumber.



© 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Editorial Illustrations

Academia vs. Reality © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell



Game Face Bear © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell



Global Warming © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Nuclear NATO © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The March of Folly © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Demicans and Republocrats © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The Pigeon Eater (Graphic Novel Property)

The Pigeon Eater © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The Pigeon Eater © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The Pigeon Eater © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The Pigeon Eater © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell





The Pigeon Eater © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Editorial Illustrations

Embracing the Faith © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Don't Ask... © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Abe's Ghostwriter © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

The Old Guard © 2011 Kurt D. Mitchell

Who is Kurtomitch?

  

 I am a Boomer... born in a year that also saw the birth of the H-Bomb... born into a vague approximation of the nuclear family. Although television was culturally pervasive enough in my childhood to function as my de facto "nanny", it was not pervasive enough to be relied upon for that duty while visiting grandparents or elderly aunts and uncles for the obligatory Sunday family dinner. While the grown-ups interacted in all the stages of assembling the family meal, my brother and I would be relegated to a spot on the linoleum floor where we would draw using the ever-present paper, pencils, and crayons that would spill out of my Mother's bag. We, the Children, would draw for hours on the floor, underfoot but never under-loved, returning to the world our reconfigured versions of television images that our sponge-like minds had absorbed during the previous week... lots of cars, lots of dinosaurs, lots of anthropomorphic animals, lots of good guys vanquishing bad guys, with nary a drop of visible red blood... if there was, we didn't know... our TV was only black and white.