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Portrait of Jim Matthews, 1945. He and Mayan served together in the same Army unit in Europe during that period. In a drawing of a poker game done at Camp Lucky Strike, France, Matthews is the central figure wearing spectacles.
In honor of the essential farm workers, who supply us with food. Mayan portrait of Cesar Chavez, 1969.
It seems a good time to reread The Death of Grass, about a deadly virus, first published in the U.S. as No Blade of Grass, by John Christopher in 1956. Illustrated by Earl Mayan. "Pirrie's small body lay stretched across the camber of the road. There was blood beneath him."