He was a founding member of the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, The Sons of the Desert, and drew the organization's crest.
It also inspired a helper group for the Michigan tent for The Sons of the Desert, which is composed of all the child members of the tent.
First experimented in 1983 through a company called Colorization Inc., a subsidiary of Hal Roach Studios, it was first publicly shown at the 1984 The Sons of the Desert-sponsored International Helpmates Convention.
Chapters of The Sons of the Desert (the international Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society) take their names from the duo's films.
In 1964, a few years after the book, Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy, was published, author John McCabe formed a small group of Laurel and Hardy admirers, including Orson Bean, cartoonist Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann, and John Municino.
Chapters — called Tents — of The Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, all take their names from L&H films.
Mojave Desert | Charles Scribner's Sons | Sonoran Desert | Steinway & Sons | My Three Sons | John Wiley & Sons | Desert Island Discs | desert | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Sons of Anarchy | Gobi Desert | Sons of the American Revolution | Atacama Desert | Mumford & Sons | Mount Desert Island | Sons of the Pioneers | Sons and Daughters | Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series) | Kalahari Desert | Desert Hearts | Black Rock Desert | Sons of Tucson | Native Sons of the Golden West | Libyan Desert | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Namib Desert | James Powell and Sons | Colorado Desert | Western Desert | The Sons of the Desert |