by stiles • • Comments Off on From Tom Till’s “Then & Now”…Balanced Rock
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” Balanced Rock Visit Tom Till’s Website. To see the PDF version of this page, click here. To comment, scroll to…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The Wilder West: Manifesto…Art by Dave Wilder
This painting, featuring a turkey vulture skull above crossed monkey wrenches is respectfully dedicated to the life and writings of Edward Abbey. It’s one of a new series of paintings that presents natural and human-made objects in trompe l’oeil…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The Early Zephyr Covers, 1989-1995
In the first few years of the Zephyr, I drew a new cartoon to grace the front page of each issue. Here is a small sampling of those covers…JS Jim Stiles is the Founder and Co-Publisher of the Canyon Country…
by stiles • • Comments Off on A Sampling of THE CARTOON ADS…1989-1995
The Zephyr has always been noted for its ’cartoon ads,’which Stiles initiated with the first issue. We believe we may be the only publication in America where readers consistently looked at the ads first, before they read the articles. Here…
by stiles • • Comments Off on THE FACES OF MOAB 1989-1996
…And some other favorite faces mixed in for fun. To see the PDF version of this page, click here and here. To comment, scroll to the bottom of the page. Don’t forget the Zephyr ads! All links are hot!
by stiles • • Comments Off on Rock Me On the Water: Introduction…by Renny Russell
EDITOR’S NOTE: If Renny Russell had a nickel for every time someone told him how “On the Loose” changed his life, I suspect Renny would still be living quietly and unobtrusively, off the grid, somewhere in the remote mountains of…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The ART of RENNY RUSSELL
Painting Illustration Calligraphy To see all the available artwork, visit Renny’s website: http://www.rennyrussell.com Also, don’t forget to read the Introduction from Renny’s Rock Me on the Water, printed in this issue of the Zephyr. To see the PDF version of…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The Wilder West: Good, The Bad, and The Frozen…Art by Dave Wilder
The Good, The Bad, and The Frozen Acrylic, 14×20″ Collection of the artist. Cards available on the Wilder Arts website. Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at: http://www.wilderarts.com and at the Laughing Raven Gallery 417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona…
by stiles • • Comments Off on The Wilder West: ‘The Imaginary West’…the Wit and Wisdom of Dave Wilder
The Imaginary West We love our myths here in America, and where would our beloved West be without them? After all, reality is complicated; myth is tidy. Here I’ve tried to take on the myth of the cowboy artist, a…
by stiles • • Comments Off on Pointblank: Friends and Freedom…by Al Cornette
Friends and Freedom Once I had a friend–“friend” being a loose term, as people seem to bend with the wind and you look up one day and they’re gone. Don’t know why that is, not my fault ’cause I liked…