February 15, 2008

Pat Hamou

is drawing Jewish gangsters.

Portrait of Bo Weinberg by Pat Hamou

The subject of this illustration is Dutch Schultz’s right hand man and muscle, Bo Weinberg. Weinberg was one of the very few Jewish mobsters who was literally fitted with a pair of cement shoes and dumped into the East River.

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  1. Alek Lindus on February 16th, 2008 at 12:57 am

    these are terrific illustrations, i love his page layouts, really hope he gets it published

  2. Sheila Ryan on February 16th, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Oh, yes, I like the sample layouts he presents on the site.

  3. Deron Bauman on February 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    great post.

  4. India on February 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    The best thing about my job is I can spend all day looking at bitchen drawings, and it counts as “work.”

  5. Sheila Ryan on February 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    . . . just as we archivists can spend all day reading other people’s mail and get paid for it.

  6. Pat Hamou on February 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Hi folks

    I am humbled by your kind words and much thanks to Alek Lindus for the nice comment on my blog – i’m still baffled at times when it comes to the ‘blogpsphere’, just when i think no one is paying attention something like this happens…
    Alek I am curious as to how you found my blog…
    cheers all.
    -Pat

  7. India on February 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Welcome, Pat!

    Alek found your blog because I posted about it, above. And I found it because I’m the art director at a Jewish organization, and a friend sent me to you as someone from whom I might want to commission an illustration. I have no idea how he found you, but he gets around, on these Internets.

  8. Pat Hamou on February 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Ah – well thanks a lot for posting it. Much obliged to you and to your friend who may of found about it through sites like Jewcy perhaps…and now i’m glad i have found clusterflock as well, which i’ll link on my blog and continue visiting.

  9. Deron Bauman on February 17th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    thanks, Pat. Much appreciated. if you’d be interested in posting drawings at clusterflock, let us know. we’d love to have you around.

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