Better late than never, I guess. Felt like crap the past 24 hours and that set me back a bit. What really caused the delay was I started this strip over the weekend and then yesterday decided to completely re-write[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A true cultural exchange as only the gang from 1977 (or more importantly, Bud) could do. Beats when Pres. Geo. Bush the 1st barfed on the Chinese Prime Minister (or whomever it was). On Monday, a trip down nostalgia way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The backgrounds on this one wore me out. I wish I had more time to work on these! This one is for all those folks who suddenly realized after working on something for hours, that all you had to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I over-write a lot of the comics. They start off as they long-winded scripts then I normally knock them down as I lay them out in Manga Studio. This time, I noticed that I had essentially two different jokes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A nod of the baseball cap to the Latvian Olympic Mens Volleyball team who beat the Amercian team 2-0 in an upset in the first round of the Olympic Beach Volleyball games. Not sure of their final placement, but the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Heh-heh… a little poke at the KGB of 1977… It is my understanding that hotel rooms of visiting westerners were bugged… seems kinda crazy but it was different age for sure. Like the USA doesn’t do that, eh? HA! 🙂[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh yes, the swill known as Billy Beer was quite the surprise to most beer drinkers. Let’s just say it was not the best beer I ever had… and I drank cheap beer most weekends… For those of you to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jeff is just practical, that’s all. Oh, and he’s smoking a real cigarette, not one of them fancy ones! 🙂 Speaking of smelling… I have no sense of smell. I have never had one as a result of a birth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little Cheech & Chong for your morning! Class… The comic title is done by tons of groups, but I’ve always liked the Beatles version from like 1965 or thereabouts, especially the rockin’ MONO mix which is very hard to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A small break from Latvia to see how things are going while Bud and Jeff are away from home (a great BTO song from their “Head On” album). For those of you with short attention spans… Poco is Jeff’s pet dragon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was inspired by a very brief but very funny cameo appearance made by the Three Stooges in the movie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” that came out in 1963 and had just about every comedian known to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The comic title is from Harry Nilsson’s “Nilsson Schmilsson” album. It is one of many songs that featured a great bass guitar line performed by the great Klaus Voormann that inspired me to be a bassist. But I have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of you (me) who weren’t in the know… in 1977 Russia controled Latvia and the locals weren’t too thrilled with the Russians hanging around. Thus, singing “Back In The U.S.S.R.” might have ticked a few of them off. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Billy Beer saves the day. How did Jeff blow all his cash? He over-tips. I once gave a Canadian waitress a HUGE tip as I calculated the exchange rate backwards… DOH! No wonder she kept thanking me… We bid our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ever have one of those REALLY comfortable old couches that you had to get rid of because of it smelled, or the springs were sticking out, but the damn thing was just SO comfortable? Nope, me either. I’d toss the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anything but that to a stoner… 🙂 Comic title is a great Talking Heads tune that the comedian Gallagher uses to close his shows for many a year back in the 90s. Best friend of mine got us FRONT row[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tossing out the old couch. But is it really gone? Hmmm… maybe not… Comic title once again pulls from BTO’s catalog of tunes. This time from their 1975 release “Head On” that didn’t get as much attention as it should[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My son Justin did a guest strip for me today as I’m in Indianapolis at a trade show for a client (see the picture below). I love the idea of Bud taking over for Columbus, and can you imagine the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guest Strip By J. Byron Another strip by my oldest son Justin. I’m back from that tradeshow in Indiana and man, I’m tired. A customer bought the floor models and we had to drive them to Dublin, Ohio, a mere[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A guest star today… can a certain comic artist of the feminine persuasion name who it is? Hmmm? 🙂 Back in the day, and I can’t remember the year(s) but they ran these silly TV commercials with this tough lookin’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
