Ken Fletcher
Indeed.
Air start of a seaplane race, in the 1930s on Spontoon Island.
Colour for this image by Taral Wayne.
November 1932 - Spontoon Island Lagoon. The Pumpkin Pie Season begins!
Early in the morning of 1 November, the first pies are distributed to
visitors and guests by neighborhood volunteer servers. The servers here
are performing one of the first-morning pie-walk server dances. (Not all
the pie-sharing is this lively. Other traditional parts of a Spontoonie
breakfast may be served by the servers.)
Free pies from the local co-op bakers are distributed to early morning parties at the neighborhood picnic areas and gathering-booths. More free pies (or pie-slices) are delivered for breakfasts via co-op trucks (and some delivery boats) to distribution locations. With advance notice, free pumpkin pies will be delivered in time for breakfast to apartment buildings, hotels, & resorts, for interested visitors and tourists.
Pies are also delivered from new batches, baked through the month of November. After the first day, token donations are accepted to finance local distribution to other archipelago islands. Some pies are shipped by seaplane (or frozen) for Pacific regional customers.
(Objects in the image may not be as strange as they appear. Setting and characters are seen as they would appear in the Dreamtime or in kami-vision. Your view may vary. Play nice.)
Free pies from the local co-op bakers are distributed to early morning parties at the neighborhood picnic areas and gathering-booths. More free pies (or pie-slices) are delivered for breakfasts via co-op trucks (and some delivery boats) to distribution locations. With advance notice, free pumpkin pies will be delivered in time for breakfast to apartment buildings, hotels, & resorts, for interested visitors and tourists.
Pies are also delivered from new batches, baked through the month of November. After the first day, token donations are accepted to finance local distribution to other archipelago islands. Some pies are shipped by seaplane (or frozen) for Pacific regional customers.
(Objects in the image may not be as strange as they appear. Setting and characters are seen as they would appear in the Dreamtime or in kami-vision. Your view may vary. Play nice.)
Ken is one of the original artists who kicked off the modern Furry fandom. His work has appeared in many magazines and comics. In 2018, Ken Fletcher was awarded the Rotsler Award for his contributions in the Science Fiction community.
A unique form of
'trolley-car', as seen on its first cross-country trials in 1895.
Engineered at the mechanical shops of the Mesabi Overland Railway &
Navigation Company of Minnesota.
Label for a small pack of firecrackers from Spontoon Island, sometime
after July 1937. Spontoon Island is in a fantasy version of the North
Pacific Ocean, and is a regional commerce and political center for a
diverse archipelago of small island populations. Public works are
usually run by elected political and economic committees. Labor on
public works projects is repaid in money, exchanged favors, and
prestige. Physically intensive labor (such as road construction and
repair) is paid at a premium, but donated labor for projects (at token
amounts of pay) is very welcome, and quite often repaid in political
favors and prestige. Here we have a student at a local boarding academy
(Nicknamed "Tea" by her work crew comrades), a citizen of a foreign
nation, who is also a "scholastic-citizen" of Spontoon Island while she
is attending the Songmark Aeronautical Academy For Young Ladies. Her
volunteer efforts in helping repair roads as a citizen of her adopted
island are rewarded with her image on a 1937 print-run of
locally-produced firecracker labels. Her work efforts also earned her
the prestige of wearing the monthly 'production quota' hat. (She seems
to appreciate the honors, perhaps because her home country was more
inclined to having mandatory public works projects. She finds actual
volunteer projects to be very sincerely uplifting.)
I believe that the image is based on a black & white photograph taken that July by a work comrade (and companion) living at a Spontoonie local village. A daring photo to be taken under such informal circumstances: It might be misunderstood back home in the People's Republic of New Haven. Resulting personal & political self-critiques (at a viewing of the developed photographs) were satisfactorily resolved after intense dialectical analysis and co-operative resolutionary action ("in bed").
I believe that the image is based on a black & white photograph taken that July by a work comrade (and companion) living at a Spontoonie local village. A daring photo to be taken under such informal circumstances: It might be misunderstood back home in the People's Republic of New Haven. Resulting personal & political self-critiques (at a viewing of the developed photographs) were satisfactorily resolved after intense dialectical analysis and co-operative resolutionary action ("in bed").
Be sure to drop by and say Aloha! to Ken and all of the Spontoon Gang. Will ye no come back again?
I've definitely come across Spontoon island before
ReplyDeleteIt's quite an achievement, an example of a successful shared universe. I really like it.
DeleteI'm quite familiar with Mr. Fletcher's work; I was seeing his contributions in fanzines back in the late 1970s (wish I'd kept those). Nice write-up.
ReplyDeleteGee, that's quite a while. I grew up in a vacuum about art and sci/fi and fantasy, I knew almost no one who was into it and the few times I would go to a comics store left me wanting no part of the fandom. Let's see, 'I' used 3 times and 'me' once in 3 sentences. I'm definitely staying on the ball tonight!
DeleteAn awesome selection of work from one of Furry's greats! Really nice to see it here.
ReplyDeleteSure hope we can leave this up. Ken has a lot of work that,(ahem), would look great on a certain high grade furry site I know of!
DeleteI always admire Ken's work. It always looks like vintage covers of 1930's magazines.
ReplyDeleteIt sure does. I think your work would be right at home on Spontoon!
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