Remember the movie “Splash”? The secretary at Tom Hank’s business was Mrs. Stimler, and it is revealed early in the film that she was struck in the head by lightning and is a little off her rocker. In one classic scene, she is shown working with her bra outside her blouse, and I have taken that joke and put it on Rocky’s secretary. You’ll find out why she is wearing her bra wrong in next week’s page. And her boss is named after the character Rocky Rococo from the “Adventures of Nick Danger” by the Firesign Theatre and is modeled after Danny Devito’s character from “TAXI” which explains the painting of a taxi on the wall in the second frame.
I’ve been really sick this past week so I’m behind on work. But you get to see a good example of my process posted below.. In the bottom frame, you see what is my rough sketch of what I want in a frame. In the middle frame, you see where I’ve taken a rough sketch and cleaned it up enough to be inked. And in the top frame you see a finished frame.
I love looking at your work in progress as much as I love the finished 1977 pages. Feel better soon!
Thanks! I generally love the look of just my finished pencils, they have so much more energy then my inked versions. But in this day and age of digital content creation, people want a more finished, polished look. I have several times considered doing a limited run of the later stories just in their pencil stage. I think it would be awesome.
Oh yes I would love to see that. Did you know Ben Aaronovitch who is the bestselling author of “Rivers of London” series novels and graphic novels puts up pencil pages on his Twitter when he’s working on a new comic? I love those too. You would be in good company haha
But does she have a pickle in a brown paper bag ? 😉
I will have to think about that one!
We tend to think of both the song and the sketch as ‘classics’ but Rocky Raccoon was released in Nov. of ’68 and the album ‘How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All ?’ was released in Jul of ’69 and was written in Jan, so it was mentioning a song currently getting airplay.
It was one of my favourite cuts when I needed a break on air, 28 minutes is more than enough time to leave the station, run to the tavern across the parking lot, throw a few glasses of ‘late night voice lubrication fluid’ down my neck and get back before it ran out, including a bathroom stop…assuming it didn’t skip.
I got caught in the bathroom once and had to listen to Arlo Guthrie’s ‘The Significance of the Pickle’ going “don’t–don’t–don’t–” for a lot longer than it should have and yes, we had speakers in the bathrooms…for just that reason 😉
Long songs are a DJ’s friend, when they behave, but not today when everything’s on computer, someone else pulled your show and you’re just there for the local commercials 🙁
I liked the thrill of changing my mind on what to play next and ‘power cueing’ it while I was doing a voiceover 🙂
My DJ friends have all said the same thing! “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” got a lot of airplay exactly for the reasons you mentioned!
And the good ol’ days of DJs who actually picked songs to play. Plus the dreaded skipping record! Good times, good times. 🙂
Stairway to Heaven was a good one too and Traffic’s ‘The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’, Buffalo Springfield’s ‘Bluebird (the album version)’, Deep Purple’s ‘lazy’ or pretty much anything off the Made In Japan album, ELP’s ‘Tarkus’ or a few others from them; ‘Alice’s Restaurant’, so many to choose from but most just used the same two or three.
I always had a long one that didn’t get much airplay sitting beside the turntables in case of emergency 😉
If it said 8 minutes plus, and the longer the better, on it went 😉
This one starts out strong, then gets a little sketchy by the end.
You could say that about Nick Danger too 😉
Nice! I love when comments crack me up! Sometimes my readers are funnier than me, which kinda ticks me off, but then again I’m no comedian. 🙂
If I couldn’t go for the funny, I don’t think I’d post at all…even on the serious sites.
That is a miracle that Mrs Goodman at Rococo talent agency even survived a lighting strike given both the heat, voltage and current. She was a poor conductor get it talent agent and electricity hahahaha. So Mrs Goodman lost her marbles at least she’s alive. I’d wear corsets or bras halter or strapless or maybe do without due to tiny tits. Saving Bud and Jeff from stupid personal questions. No one like a dummy lifting up a skirt just to see under ware why they get slap across the face. Again Mrs Goodman lost her marbles so stop being dumb and rude. Hardly anyone ask if Bud or Jeff wear boxers, bikini, briefs or they are plain naked under those pants. Part of why Mr Rococo can’t find plan 9 gigs they are being dumb.
You’re on the right path with Plan 9 not being booked often. Our gang is not the sharpest pencils in the drawer. And somewhere in the early days of the comic, I did sneak in that they all go commando as a lot of folks in the ’70s did.
Nothing wrong with “going commando”. I still do a lot. I hate underwear. Nothing droopy downstairs though. If you are a dude with without the old spring in your sack I can see where it would help. Now above the waist I’m learning the meaning of droop sadly. :/
I remember streets of fire thinking that Lorraine could be Diane Lane’s Ellen Ann looks hot in heels form fitting pants. Robyn could either be a drummer for the blasters or Amy Madigan Mc Coy she is so butch. Bud could be Buddet then EG Daily’s Baby Doll or the punk rock table dancing at the biker bar. As Bud a guitar player for the blasters. Jeff could be a bass player for the blasters. If Bud and Jeff had been war vets, drove motor cycles and fire guns then they could be Michael Pare Tom Cody and Willem De foe Raven Shaddock oh to tied up and de flowered by him ohhhhhh. Loved the movie action, big hair, romance and Diane Lane’s sexy outfits.
Things have been clarified.
Yes they have. My ear infections are not going away and I’m going to have to go see my doctor… again… UGH! This page took forever as I’d get going and then I’d either get tired from the medication that fights off the dizzy spells or the pain from the infections would distract me. Getting old sucks. 🙂
Ugh, there’s nothing worse than an ear infection, I started getting those regularly Spring and Fall about fifteen years back and now I know why kids scream so much with them.
The ENT Dr. tried a bunch of things then finally told me to start taking an over the counter allergy pill daily and it worked like a charm, haven’t had one since.
The worst part was when my family Dr. initially prescribed the same Amoxycillin we’d been feeding the kids for theirs.
Tasted great but I immediately found out I’d mysteriously developed a deathly allergy to penicillin and damn near died from it.
Many, MANY years ago, I had taped a copy of “Nick Danger” (and “How Can You Be”) and would play them constantly. It reached the point where, when bored, I would recite them. One day, while stage right at a local theater (“The Newport Player’s Guild,” now gone. Press “F” for reverence.) I was stacking chairs, got bored, and started reciting “Nick Danger,” the theater was empty and I was loud. I reached the point where he gets to the Same Mansion and I said; “Hey, in there, open up, your door knocker fell off!” Before I could say anything else, a voice stage left called out; “What’s all this brou-ha-ha?” And he and I, with no idea the other person had been there, did the rest of the routine!