Hey everybody! Quick update for you all. The reasons for a lack of updates here are multi-layered, so let me explain.

First, my youngest son, about a month ago, went through an upsetting breakup with his girlfriend of the past two years. I won’t delve any further as it is his personal life, but he was very upset by the incident, and being the father that I am, I helped him through those tough first weeks. As such, I spent most evenings and my weekends with him keeping him distracted. The nice thing is we finally reupholstered the seats in my 1993 Miata MX5 (see the gallery below) and he’s started work rebuilding the engine of his 2001 Miata and adding all types of turbo-chargers and other car stuff I don’t have a clue about. He is going to be fine, but it has taken up a LOT of my time. Family comes first, so I don’t mind, but it does take me away from drawing the comic.

Second, I’m going to attend a concert at the Whisky a Go Go in L.A. next week (May 17th) for the rock group Fanny. For those of you who don’t know, Fanny is an early ‘70s rock group and I have managed/designed their website and social media accounts for the past 15 years. As such, I’ve been very busy promoting that concert, which is part of a series of small performances in southern California coinciding with showings of their documentary film which will make its PBS premiere on May 22nd here in the states. I’m flying out on Tuesday, and flying home on Thursday, so I’m there for the concert and not much else. But, I am staying at the hotel known in the ‘60s and ‘70s as the “Riot Hyatt” and was made famous by groups like Led Zeppelin for trashing the place. Google it, you’ll be entertained by the stories.

So I’ll bring back photos of the concert and of course the sites up and down Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. Will be an interesting 3 days to say the least.

As such, my time to produce comics has been severely limited. Once I recover from my trip, I’ll be back in the drawing saddle shortly thereafter and will get back to the story at hand. This is a teaser of the page I was working on when all of this shit went down. The rest of this page will be various Polaroid-style shots of the first day of recording for Plan 9 in New York. After this page, they take a break and head down to the CBGBs bar and concert club to meet up with some up-and-coming rock stars that used to perform at CBGBs in the late ‘70s.

Speaking of Fanny, which I haven’t done in a while, here’s a clip of them melting the faces off of the camera operators for the German TV show “Beat-Club” as they perform Nickey Barclay’s rockin’ “Blind Alley” which is one of my favorite songs from the band. 

For you newbies to the world of Fanny, here’s their Top 40 hit “Charity Ball” from the 1971 album of the same name. It was how I discovered the band at the mere age of 14 and have been a die-hard fan ever since.