Evel Knievel, Part 2

Today we present a sequel to the entry of March 14th, from a deeper stratum within the same jumbled box. These are probably from the same week, if not the same day.


Here we see another view of Evel's Snake River Canyon jump on 9/8/74. Again, it's not particularly accurate in depicting the Sky Cycle, but I did correctly portray his failure to make it across.


I don't know what he's jumping over here, but I think that it's a shark tank (does that look like a fishtail coming out of the water to you?). He did attempt (and fail) to jump over a shark tank in the winter of '76, but I don't think these drawings are from that late.

Viva Knievel!

At first glance, I just these were just drawings of motorcyclists, until a closer examination made me realize that the upper right-hand panel is a depiction of Evel Knievel's unsuccessful Snake River Canyon jump on Sept. 8th, 1974. The other panels show other things Evel likes to do: pop wheelies, stand up on the seat,or ride a chopper (I don't think those are supposed to be ape hangers...I just couldn't draw motorcycles very well). Like most 6-year old Americans that year, I admired Knievel, but my real interest in him was less as a person than as a toy (the Six Million Dollar Man kinda falls into that category, too). As such, his later fall from grace didn't really affect me that much...though I never bought any of the reconfigured toys when they came back as "Team America." I owed him that much, I guess.