Village ArtArt and Photos for the Birch Clump Novels by: Joshua Seidl, ssp Left is a drawing of Bubba, a guy around 23 years old living in the Village of Birch Clump, circa, 2010. Just above is a picture of the author, Joshua Seidl, circa 1980 at age 29 visiting Birch Clump. Below are drawings and photos of or relating to stuff in my novels. |
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More pages of art and photos: Video Video shorts about the novels and artwork. Year Book Drawings by Joshua of some of the Birch Clump Villers. Photos of actual sites mentioned in the two novels. More Drawings of Joshua's fictional characters. The water mark styled background to this page is from a photo of me in the early to mid 1980's resting on a fallen tree that made for a natural bridge over a forest ravine. I would have been between 30-35 years old. I'm holding a Panasonic Camcorder in my lap, the same that was made famous in the original "Back To The future Movie."
Who’s Bubba?
Well, I wasn’t sure when I drew their pictures. Like the “Modern Métis Kid,” these are pictures I drew up in April and May of 2010 and
didn’t have any character roles for them at the time. I think Bubba’s role will develop as a young man of the first couple decades of 21st century
Birch Clump. If he was 23 when I drew him in April or May of 2010, then that means he was probably born in 1987, depending on what month of course.
He was used temporarily as a writer for the Village News that ran only two issues on this site before I canceled that.
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Some of the larger drawings: Left is a drawing of Bro. Josesph
Mandaamin, CSJ perhaps around 1978. He was originaly called Randy. Here he is is playing guitar at the village dump site where a live
performance stage was set up back in the 1960's by Jamie Fox to feature local talent and free concerts.
↑ Above is a yet to be named character. I think he could look like a modern day Metis kid or like some one from the 1960's and 70's because of his long hair and tight jeans. It's titled, "Modern Metis Kid.
Jon Swanningson →
Jon is never mentioned in my first three books. He’s the 1969 Birch Clump Village High School class president. I just
figured every high school class needs a class president and seeing as none of my regular characters aspired to student government that it would
be nice to create one. I might do up a short story about him in the fourth book which will be a collection of stories geared mostly at telling a
bit more about some of my original characters, such as Flo who is the mother of Dean, of about Randy’s parents, and a bit of what became of some
of those Baby Boomers. Amos ↓
The same photograph that I used to draw Jon Swanningson from was used to create Amos in my short story, the Fishing Hole.
I simply included more detail, changed the hair style a bit, darkened the jeans, gagged the mouth, tilt the
head a different direction and behold a totally new character was drawn.
The “Modern Métis Kid” and a friend slide down a chute in Birch Clump; (above left). The chute of the late 1890s
era of Birch Clump Village is said to have built as a coal chute for the old General Store. It was made into an emergency hatch sometime in
the 1950’s when the basement of the store was designated as a nuclear bomb fall out shelter during the “Red Scare” days. |
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