If you were there, I want your help

For more than thirty years -- 1968 through 1998 -- I took weekly “snapshots” of the moving currents of change during a critical era from a unique perspective. I used a pen and brush instead of a camera. It was my job to exaggerate or understate, laud or lampoon, puff or pan the subjects in editorial cartoons in The Baptist Standard and other religious newsmagazines.

The value of these cartoons is not just that they chronicled almost a third of the last century. Their value lies in the fact that these thirty years spanned a time of cataclysmic, hinge-of-history changes. If you were a part of that era or were impacted by it, I need your stories, comments and encouragement.

I intend to showcase here and in my website, www.brotherblotz.com, some of those cartoons. And I will give you a look at some of the events, issues, and people that they portray. Comment, criticize, commend. All input is appreciated. But let's work together to preserve this history.

Comments

[Doug Dillard]

Thanks. I've been writing a long time, although most of my stuff was written for clients whose names appeared on the work. I've been content to my role in life: doing my best to make others look good.

I've been a little discouraged about the results of the blog so far. Most of my contemporaries who were players during the target era are dead, senile, apathetic, or computerphobic, not necessarily in that order. The current generation tends to cut off its roots, cares little about its ancestry, and sees little need to chronicle the lessons learned in their own pilgrimage. Their progeny will one day curse them for it.

All this stiffens my will to finish my mission. For now, another priority fights for my time. My wife's decade-long fight with an incurable, progressive, and irreversible lung disease -- chronic bronchiactasis -- is taking much of my time. I hope by this blog or some other means to gather the stories of many who experienced the changes that took place during these "hinges of history" or were affected by them.

[FRAN DEMPSEY]

YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE!!!! IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE FAMOUS 'DILLARD CLASS' TO HANDLE, YOU SHOULD BE WRITING FOR THE RELIGIOUS SECTION OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS !!! Not only would your articles be informative, inspirational and exactly what our world NEEDS today, it would be tickling the funny bone of every reader!

love u !