JOHN MICHAEL CALLAHAN:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/arts/design/28callahan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callahan_(cartoonist)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/29/local/la-me-john-callahan-20100729
Source: MARLA (ROTHERY) DE BELLOY WOSNAK(FAG#47035424)
July 2017: A new park & garden has been added to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. The John Callahan Garden will be completed in September and is distinct from park around the corner. Callahan (1951-2010) was known for his biting cartoons that ran in Willamette Week for close to 30 years. His cartoons sometimes dealt with physical disability, spun out from his own experiences & attitudes as a quadriplegic. He was a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital and often volunteered there. Source: Stephanie Yao, The Oregonian∼John had been hospitalized since Thursday and had been in declining health for several years. He was 59 years old and had been living in a basement apartment on NW Lovejoy St. for the past several years.
According to Joy Campbell, a friend of twenty years and someone in frequent contact with Callahan, before he went to the hospital on Thursday, he knew he was at the end of his life.
He said farewell to Robert his caregiver before he left for Good Sam.
On Saturday morning the hospital wanted to transfer him to Hopewell House, a hospice. According to Campbell, he had always been adamant about not wanting to die in hospice. When the ambulance arrived at Hopewell, he was having so much trouble breathing that he was returned to Good Sam where he died shortly after his arrival.
Having spent some creative time with him and being his downstairs neighbor, I always thought he had a sick mind and a pure heart. The perfect combination.
Most Portlanders knew him as the Willamette Week Cartoonist and author of many sardonic cartoon books. He also released an album of his songs, Purple Winos In the Rain, produced by Terry Robb.
He had a love-hate relationship with Portland, and indeed the world. But the love always showed through.
We invite your remembrances.
Terry Robb said this afternoon that he had just spoken with John on Thursday. Apparently Kinky Friedman had wanted him to open at his show at the Roseland Theater on Thursday, July 28. He was a big fan of John's.
Mark Sussman of Willamette week wrote in their first report, "Our tears shed as we write this."
Bassist/singer/composer Lisa Mann wrote:
I only met him a few times. The first time was just after a Music Millennium show, at the old westside location. He asked what time we played, so I told him we had just finished and he said he was very sorry he'd missed it. He seemed genuinely disappointed. He gave me his CD and started up a conversation about music and everything else under the sun, like we were old friends. He didn't know me from Adam. I remember being really struck by that, especially given my impression of him through his crass cartoons. Really interesting guy, sorry to hear he's passed.
John Callahan was a cartoonist, artist, and musician noted for dealing with macabre subjects and physical disabilities.
A quadriplegic, Callahan drew his cartoons by clutching a pen between both hands. His visual artistic style was simplistic and often rough, although still legible. It has been likened to that of William Steig, James Thurber, Richard Condie, and Ben Wicks.
Callahan's cartoons dealt with subjects often considered taboo. His black humor may be exemplified by the title of his "quasi-memoir", Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?. The subject matter and treatment of his cartoons shares something with the work of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson, although it is much more aggressive than even the Playboy cartoons of these cartoonists.
Two animated cartoons have been based on Callahan's cartoons: Pelswick, a children's show on Nickelodeon; and Quads, a Canadian-Australian co-production, which retains the violence, joie de vivre, and political incorrectness of his cartoons. The main character, who "walked out of a bar and into a car," as the theme song relates, is a quadriplegic who won a large settlement from the rich driver who ran over him, and lives in a mansion with his buxom girlfriend, gay Australian physical therapist, and a cast of fellow handicapees. Their outrageous adventures infuriate the neighbours, which include an angry nun, the milquetoast millionaire who originally ran over the main character, and his domineering, Joan Riversesque wife.
Callahan's quadriplegia was caused by an automobile accident in 1972 at the age of 21. A proposed biographical movie, with Robin Williams in the title role, was in the planning stages in 2000 but was never produced.
John Callahan worked on a nudes and portrait project, shown in several galleries throughout its progression.
Callahan was also a songwriter. He released his first CD in 2006. The Independent of London calls his songs "Beautiful, but dark". He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of "Roll Away The Day". The album is produced by blues musician Terry Robb, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits.
John Callahan was adopted as an infant, and had five siblings. As a child, he was molested by a female teacher. He began drinking at the age of fourteen. "I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse," Callahan has said. After the car accident that caused his spinal cord injury, he went through extensive rehabilitation. At the age of 27, he gave up drinking alcohol. He made his home in Portland, Oregon.
John died after a year-long battle with complications following surgery.
John Callahan's books include:
Freaks of Nature
What Kind of God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?
The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown (a children's book quite unlike the adult-oriented cartoons in his cartoon collections)
The Night, They Say, Was Made for Love
Do What He Says, He's Crazy
Digesting the Child Within
Do Not Disturb Any Further
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Get Down!!
Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? Lurid Revelations, Shocking Rejections, Irate Letters, With an Introduction by Robin Williams
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/arts/design/28callahan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callahan_(cartoonist)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/29/local/la-me-john-callahan-20100729
Source: MARLA (ROTHERY) DE BELLOY WOSNAK(FAG#47035424)
July 2017: A new park & garden has been added to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. The John Callahan Garden will be completed in September and is distinct from park around the corner. Callahan (1951-2010) was known for his biting cartoons that ran in Willamette Week for close to 30 years. His cartoons sometimes dealt with physical disability, spun out from his own experiences & attitudes as a quadriplegic. He was a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital and often volunteered there. Source: Stephanie Yao, The Oregonian∼John had been hospitalized since Thursday and had been in declining health for several years. He was 59 years old and had been living in a basement apartment on NW Lovejoy St. for the past several years.
According to Joy Campbell, a friend of twenty years and someone in frequent contact with Callahan, before he went to the hospital on Thursday, he knew he was at the end of his life.
He said farewell to Robert his caregiver before he left for Good Sam.
On Saturday morning the hospital wanted to transfer him to Hopewell House, a hospice. According to Campbell, he had always been adamant about not wanting to die in hospice. When the ambulance arrived at Hopewell, he was having so much trouble breathing that he was returned to Good Sam where he died shortly after his arrival.
Having spent some creative time with him and being his downstairs neighbor, I always thought he had a sick mind and a pure heart. The perfect combination.
Most Portlanders knew him as the Willamette Week Cartoonist and author of many sardonic cartoon books. He also released an album of his songs, Purple Winos In the Rain, produced by Terry Robb.
He had a love-hate relationship with Portland, and indeed the world. But the love always showed through.
We invite your remembrances.
Terry Robb said this afternoon that he had just spoken with John on Thursday. Apparently Kinky Friedman had wanted him to open at his show at the Roseland Theater on Thursday, July 28. He was a big fan of John's.
Mark Sussman of Willamette week wrote in their first report, "Our tears shed as we write this."
Bassist/singer/composer Lisa Mann wrote:
I only met him a few times. The first time was just after a Music Millennium show, at the old westside location. He asked what time we played, so I told him we had just finished and he said he was very sorry he'd missed it. He seemed genuinely disappointed. He gave me his CD and started up a conversation about music and everything else under the sun, like we were old friends. He didn't know me from Adam. I remember being really struck by that, especially given my impression of him through his crass cartoons. Really interesting guy, sorry to hear he's passed.
John Callahan was a cartoonist, artist, and musician noted for dealing with macabre subjects and physical disabilities.
A quadriplegic, Callahan drew his cartoons by clutching a pen between both hands. His visual artistic style was simplistic and often rough, although still legible. It has been likened to that of William Steig, James Thurber, Richard Condie, and Ben Wicks.
Callahan's cartoons dealt with subjects often considered taboo. His black humor may be exemplified by the title of his "quasi-memoir", Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?. The subject matter and treatment of his cartoons shares something with the work of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson, although it is much more aggressive than even the Playboy cartoons of these cartoonists.
Two animated cartoons have been based on Callahan's cartoons: Pelswick, a children's show on Nickelodeon; and Quads, a Canadian-Australian co-production, which retains the violence, joie de vivre, and political incorrectness of his cartoons. The main character, who "walked out of a bar and into a car," as the theme song relates, is a quadriplegic who won a large settlement from the rich driver who ran over him, and lives in a mansion with his buxom girlfriend, gay Australian physical therapist, and a cast of fellow handicapees. Their outrageous adventures infuriate the neighbours, which include an angry nun, the milquetoast millionaire who originally ran over the main character, and his domineering, Joan Riversesque wife.
Callahan's quadriplegia was caused by an automobile accident in 1972 at the age of 21. A proposed biographical movie, with Robin Williams in the title role, was in the planning stages in 2000 but was never produced.
John Callahan worked on a nudes and portrait project, shown in several galleries throughout its progression.
Callahan was also a songwriter. He released his first CD in 2006. The Independent of London calls his songs "Beautiful, but dark". He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of "Roll Away The Day". The album is produced by blues musician Terry Robb, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits.
John Callahan was adopted as an infant, and had five siblings. As a child, he was molested by a female teacher. He began drinking at the age of fourteen. "I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse," Callahan has said. After the car accident that caused his spinal cord injury, he went through extensive rehabilitation. At the age of 27, he gave up drinking alcohol. He made his home in Portland, Oregon.
John died after a year-long battle with complications following surgery.
John Callahan's books include:
Freaks of Nature
What Kind of God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?
The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown (a children's book quite unlike the adult-oriented cartoons in his cartoon collections)
The Night, They Say, Was Made for Love
Do What He Says, He's Crazy
Digesting the Child Within
Do Not Disturb Any Further
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Get Down!!
Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? Lurid Revelations, Shocking Rejections, Irate Letters, With an Introduction by Robin Williams
JOHN MICHAEL CALLAHAN:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/arts/design/28callahan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callahan_(cartoonist)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/29/local/la-me-john-callahan-20100729
Source: MARLA (ROTHERY) DE BELLOY WOSNAK(FAG#47035424)
July 2017: A new park & garden has been added to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. The John Callahan Garden will be completed in September and is distinct from park around the corner. Callahan (1951-2010) was known for his biting cartoons that ran in Willamette Week for close to 30 years. His cartoons sometimes dealt with physical disability, spun out from his own experiences & attitudes as a quadriplegic. He was a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital and often volunteered there. Source: Stephanie Yao, The Oregonian∼John had been hospitalized since Thursday and had been in declining health for several years. He was 59 years old and had been living in a basement apartment on NW Lovejoy St. for the past several years.
According to Joy Campbell, a friend of twenty years and someone in frequent contact with Callahan, before he went to the hospital on Thursday, he knew he was at the end of his life.
He said farewell to Robert his caregiver before he left for Good Sam.
On Saturday morning the hospital wanted to transfer him to Hopewell House, a hospice. According to Campbell, he had always been adamant about not wanting to die in hospice. When the ambulance arrived at Hopewell, he was having so much trouble breathing that he was returned to Good Sam where he died shortly after his arrival.
Having spent some creative time with him and being his downstairs neighbor, I always thought he had a sick mind and a pure heart. The perfect combination.
Most Portlanders knew him as the Willamette Week Cartoonist and author of many sardonic cartoon books. He also released an album of his songs, Purple Winos In the Rain, produced by Terry Robb.
He had a love-hate relationship with Portland, and indeed the world. But the love always showed through.
We invite your remembrances.
Terry Robb said this afternoon that he had just spoken with John on Thursday. Apparently Kinky Friedman had wanted him to open at his show at the Roseland Theater on Thursday, July 28. He was a big fan of John's.
Mark Sussman of Willamette week wrote in their first report, "Our tears shed as we write this."
Bassist/singer/composer Lisa Mann wrote:
I only met him a few times. The first time was just after a Music Millennium show, at the old westside location. He asked what time we played, so I told him we had just finished and he said he was very sorry he'd missed it. He seemed genuinely disappointed. He gave me his CD and started up a conversation about music and everything else under the sun, like we were old friends. He didn't know me from Adam. I remember being really struck by that, especially given my impression of him through his crass cartoons. Really interesting guy, sorry to hear he's passed.
John Callahan was a cartoonist, artist, and musician noted for dealing with macabre subjects and physical disabilities.
A quadriplegic, Callahan drew his cartoons by clutching a pen between both hands. His visual artistic style was simplistic and often rough, although still legible. It has been likened to that of William Steig, James Thurber, Richard Condie, and Ben Wicks.
Callahan's cartoons dealt with subjects often considered taboo. His black humor may be exemplified by the title of his "quasi-memoir", Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?. The subject matter and treatment of his cartoons shares something with the work of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson, although it is much more aggressive than even the Playboy cartoons of these cartoonists.
Two animated cartoons have been based on Callahan's cartoons: Pelswick, a children's show on Nickelodeon; and Quads, a Canadian-Australian co-production, which retains the violence, joie de vivre, and political incorrectness of his cartoons. The main character, who "walked out of a bar and into a car," as the theme song relates, is a quadriplegic who won a large settlement from the rich driver who ran over him, and lives in a mansion with his buxom girlfriend, gay Australian physical therapist, and a cast of fellow handicapees. Their outrageous adventures infuriate the neighbours, which include an angry nun, the milquetoast millionaire who originally ran over the main character, and his domineering, Joan Riversesque wife.
Callahan's quadriplegia was caused by an automobile accident in 1972 at the age of 21. A proposed biographical movie, with Robin Williams in the title role, was in the planning stages in 2000 but was never produced.
John Callahan worked on a nudes and portrait project, shown in several galleries throughout its progression.
Callahan was also a songwriter. He released his first CD in 2006. The Independent of London calls his songs "Beautiful, but dark". He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of "Roll Away The Day". The album is produced by blues musician Terry Robb, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits.
John Callahan was adopted as an infant, and had five siblings. As a child, he was molested by a female teacher. He began drinking at the age of fourteen. "I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse," Callahan has said. After the car accident that caused his spinal cord injury, he went through extensive rehabilitation. At the age of 27, he gave up drinking alcohol. He made his home in Portland, Oregon.
John died after a year-long battle with complications following surgery.
John Callahan's books include:
Freaks of Nature
What Kind of God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?
The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown (a children's book quite unlike the adult-oriented cartoons in his cartoon collections)
The Night, They Say, Was Made for Love
Do What He Says, He's Crazy
Digesting the Child Within
Do Not Disturb Any Further
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Get Down!!
Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? Lurid Revelations, Shocking Rejections, Irate Letters, With an Introduction by Robin Williams
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/arts/design/28callahan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callahan_(cartoonist)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/29/local/la-me-john-callahan-20100729
Source: MARLA (ROTHERY) DE BELLOY WOSNAK(FAG#47035424)
July 2017: A new park & garden has been added to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. The John Callahan Garden will be completed in September and is distinct from park around the corner. Callahan (1951-2010) was known for his biting cartoons that ran in Willamette Week for close to 30 years. His cartoons sometimes dealt with physical disability, spun out from his own experiences & attitudes as a quadriplegic. He was a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital and often volunteered there. Source: Stephanie Yao, The Oregonian∼John had been hospitalized since Thursday and had been in declining health for several years. He was 59 years old and had been living in a basement apartment on NW Lovejoy St. for the past several years.
According to Joy Campbell, a friend of twenty years and someone in frequent contact with Callahan, before he went to the hospital on Thursday, he knew he was at the end of his life.
He said farewell to Robert his caregiver before he left for Good Sam.
On Saturday morning the hospital wanted to transfer him to Hopewell House, a hospice. According to Campbell, he had always been adamant about not wanting to die in hospice. When the ambulance arrived at Hopewell, he was having so much trouble breathing that he was returned to Good Sam where he died shortly after his arrival.
Having spent some creative time with him and being his downstairs neighbor, I always thought he had a sick mind and a pure heart. The perfect combination.
Most Portlanders knew him as the Willamette Week Cartoonist and author of many sardonic cartoon books. He also released an album of his songs, Purple Winos In the Rain, produced by Terry Robb.
He had a love-hate relationship with Portland, and indeed the world. But the love always showed through.
We invite your remembrances.
Terry Robb said this afternoon that he had just spoken with John on Thursday. Apparently Kinky Friedman had wanted him to open at his show at the Roseland Theater on Thursday, July 28. He was a big fan of John's.
Mark Sussman of Willamette week wrote in their first report, "Our tears shed as we write this."
Bassist/singer/composer Lisa Mann wrote:
I only met him a few times. The first time was just after a Music Millennium show, at the old westside location. He asked what time we played, so I told him we had just finished and he said he was very sorry he'd missed it. He seemed genuinely disappointed. He gave me his CD and started up a conversation about music and everything else under the sun, like we were old friends. He didn't know me from Adam. I remember being really struck by that, especially given my impression of him through his crass cartoons. Really interesting guy, sorry to hear he's passed.
John Callahan was a cartoonist, artist, and musician noted for dealing with macabre subjects and physical disabilities.
A quadriplegic, Callahan drew his cartoons by clutching a pen between both hands. His visual artistic style was simplistic and often rough, although still legible. It has been likened to that of William Steig, James Thurber, Richard Condie, and Ben Wicks.
Callahan's cartoons dealt with subjects often considered taboo. His black humor may be exemplified by the title of his "quasi-memoir", Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?. The subject matter and treatment of his cartoons shares something with the work of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson, although it is much more aggressive than even the Playboy cartoons of these cartoonists.
Two animated cartoons have been based on Callahan's cartoons: Pelswick, a children's show on Nickelodeon; and Quads, a Canadian-Australian co-production, which retains the violence, joie de vivre, and political incorrectness of his cartoons. The main character, who "walked out of a bar and into a car," as the theme song relates, is a quadriplegic who won a large settlement from the rich driver who ran over him, and lives in a mansion with his buxom girlfriend, gay Australian physical therapist, and a cast of fellow handicapees. Their outrageous adventures infuriate the neighbours, which include an angry nun, the milquetoast millionaire who originally ran over the main character, and his domineering, Joan Riversesque wife.
Callahan's quadriplegia was caused by an automobile accident in 1972 at the age of 21. A proposed biographical movie, with Robin Williams in the title role, was in the planning stages in 2000 but was never produced.
John Callahan worked on a nudes and portrait project, shown in several galleries throughout its progression.
Callahan was also a songwriter. He released his first CD in 2006. The Independent of London calls his songs "Beautiful, but dark". He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of "Roll Away The Day". The album is produced by blues musician Terry Robb, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits.
John Callahan was adopted as an infant, and had five siblings. As a child, he was molested by a female teacher. He began drinking at the age of fourteen. "I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse," Callahan has said. After the car accident that caused his spinal cord injury, he went through extensive rehabilitation. At the age of 27, he gave up drinking alcohol. He made his home in Portland, Oregon.
John died after a year-long battle with complications following surgery.
John Callahan's books include:
Freaks of Nature
What Kind of God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?
The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown (a children's book quite unlike the adult-oriented cartoons in his cartoon collections)
The Night, They Say, Was Made for Love
Do What He Says, He's Crazy
Digesting the Child Within
Do Not Disturb Any Further
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Get Down!!
Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? Lurid Revelations, Shocking Rejections, Irate Letters, With an Introduction by Robin Williams
Inscription
"Don't worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot"
(Cartoonist - drew original drawings & wrote book - was in a wheelchair)
