I’m interrupting Lorraine’s work story just for a bit… she returns on Monday!
A very good friend of mine and fellow webcomic creator Antoine Gagnon has been a bit under the weather of late and also gone through a few stressful things in life this year, so I wanted to do something to cheer him up. Also, it’s his birthday next week, so I’ve included his two characters, Billy and Spike, from his webcomic “The Drunken Fools”. Antoine is one of two Canadians I’ve become good friends with over the past year or so, and no matter what they say about Canadians, these guys are cool. Antoine is also French Canadian and tons of fun to be around, plus he swears like a, well, drunken sailor and that’s tops in my book. He was at C2E2 Comic Con in April and we spent a lot of time together as he saw the sites of Chicago. He popped for one top-notch steak dinner too, so anyone who offers me free food is a friend for life. Your tough luck, Antoine! So, click here to go visit his website and say hello from 1977 the Comic! He’ll probably swear at you… he’s French…
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Ah, a little early ZZ Top for your Friday. This one rocks you just right, and Billy Gibbons is one helluva guitarist. This one is also kinda rare in that both Dusty Hill and Gibbons share the lead vocals. Just a fun song and fits Antoine and I perfectly (well, when I was 20).
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the colours, man! the colours!
I know… I hate drawing backgrounds, especially bars… should be full of people and tables, but eh, I’m lazy…
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well, adding people in backgrounds is tricky, even if they are just silhouettes … mainly because its hard to draw them and still keep the objects/people you want to be the focal point as such.
this wasn’t a complaint, more a smart-ass comment. 😉 and i like the colour choices. very vivid. thought you did a nice job.
Hey, I’m all about smart-ass remarks… bring them on!
That’s my point exactly. Some comic artists put a TON of work into their backgrounds only to have them take away from the foreground action. I know I should to more, but I feel if it is not essential to the action, then we really don’t need to see every freaking detail in the background.
Also, I’m lazy. 😛
Friend for life for buying you a meal? Cool, next time I come to Chicago, I’ll buy the burgers at the Billy Goat Tavern. (You didn’t say it had to be steak)
“Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger! Pepsi, no coke.”
I’ve been there several times and it is a good time every time. And, you’re on!
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We stopped at Billy Goat last time and Byron and I already had our lunch. Next year, it’s a meal stop for sure!!
My favorite ZZ Top song! YAY! Thanks. 🙂
You’re welcome! It’s a fun tune!
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GAHHHH! I know who that is! ;0)
STEAK!
#thanksdawn…
Holy hell that’s great! Nice work Byron!!
#thanksken…
The funny thing is I’m better at other people’s characters then my own… I could have been one of those “go-between” animators for Disney back when they did things by hand… Damn, I missed an entire career in which I could have watched it slowly be eaten up by 3D animators! I could be an unemployed Disney animator now instead of just an unemployed video producer… Damnit!
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Great job Byron. Antoine is a great guy, and we all hope he feels better soon.
They might as well just hand over the winnings to Bill and Spike before it even starts, we’ve seen their drinking abilities and they got this competition in the bag.
It’s the Canadian beer. It’s got more power than a Bull Moose and apparently tastes the same… ZING!
Seriously, their alcohol levels are higher in beer then here in the states, from what I understand.
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We have a good beer here call the Moosehead actually, LOL
As far as alcohol, it depends where you get your beer in the US. there are some very cool local breweries in Boston that can match any Canadian beer!
tks for the wishes Todd,
and yeah, odds are 100000000000 to 1 here
Yeah, great ZZ Top song – from back when they were more about the music & less about the shtick (altho they still jam. I will admit,,,)
I can’t vouch for Canadian beer drinking abilities, but back in my own BD&HR daze, we had an Aussie bud who would anchor our drinking teams for the beer drinking contests back when bars used to do that. Even if we were a fair amount behind, he’d power us into the lead, & if we were in the lead already, he’d smoke the competition. All of 5′ 6″ & about a buck 30, but man could he slam down the brew!
I was a skinny tall bastard most of my adult life. Clocking in at just about 6′ tall and a mere 160 pounds in my college days, I could pound down beer like no one. I use to do around 12 beers in about 2 hours on my “drinking” nights. Some nights my system said “Okay, that’s enough!” and purge what I’d taken in… those were rough nights!
But my good bud Ted was 6′-6″ and about 100 pounds my senior and cold drink like a fish. So it goes both ways. But, for power drinking, I was the one my gang always came too in a pinch.
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ZZ Top is full of shtick, but as you said, can still play up a storm. Saw a live concert on some damn channel not long ago and, man, for a power trio, they sure can make a lot of noise… and really good noise too!
A haw, haw, haw, haw… 😛
Alcohol tolerance isn’t just – or even necessarily – about size and body mass. Take me – I’m a dwarf, but some weird thing in my biology means I metabolise alcohol at about Warp 9, so the only way I could get pissed even for a short while was to drink a LOT of strong spirits REALLY FAST so it gives me temporary alcohol poisoning (you might remember a certain tale of a certain keyboard player and two bottles of Southern Comfort and a really, really awesome set of rough recordings in a certain London studio…). Also, I’ve never had a hangover in my life – hangovers are one of those mysteries to me, like ‘what’s acne?’
In case you were thinking of getting jealous, my weird biology also means I’m lethally allergic to chocolate and penicillin and that I react violently to most prescription medications so I can’t take anything for *anything* to be safe. Life has a way of balancing out things 🙂
OSTI DE TABARNACK DE CALISSE!!!
Byron I remember you mentioned something about using my characters a while ago, and of course, my drunken mind forgot about it.
This is frikking awesome! I love it! Thanks man, I’m glad the Fools are there to kick Bud’s ass!!!!!!!!!!!! As long as they don’t end in a “toking” contest…. 😛
Thanks man for the wishes! I really appreciated.
oooh, what’s that? Pills? Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Uh-oh. He may have a point there. 🙂
Canadians?!!
BEWARE OF THE MAPLE SYRUP BALLOONS!
Two of the BEST Canadians around there eh, Byron? Take off ya hoser. 😀 But a great way to bring in the Canadians to 1977 🙂
Hahaha… the drunken fool was here! 🙂