Ever make that mistake? Calling someone a “secretary” or “receptionist” and then having them go off on you about it? Okay, if I do this to anyone, forgive me, I was born in 1957 when men were men, women were “chicks” and cars were made of solid steel. I, like Bud, can set the women’s movement back decades without even trying. So, sorry about that, Chief!
If you are thinking of anyone but Bowie for today’s title, then check in your iPod for a tune up. A great song from one smart cookie for sure. And the words even have some meaning today, well, kind of.
More Robyn this week as we begin to roll tape on the demo recordings! 🙂
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Bud’s lucky that he didn’t insult the version of Robin that I had commissioned you to draw for me……;-)
I call my wife that all the time – but she is one! Eh – what can you do?
Whoa! I wouldn’t mess with a chick who was that strong.
The greatest Bowie song IMO.
did she sharpen the drumsticks first?
We ought to offer song titles as challenges for the artist to use creatively in some future strip. Unfortunatley, all the rediculously hard-to-envisage ones were used in the 60s (eg 1910 Fruitgim Company’s “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman”) leaving only really easy ones to do the innuendo riff with (eg Caravan’s “If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You”).
Unless, of course, one mines the miniscule but annoying catalog of Little Jimmy Osmond.
But no-one is going to go there.
[Byron] I want to comment on the use of differing eye styles, but I’m not sure what I want to say. I think I’m finding the difference between Doe-eyed Robin and Mad Robin in this strip a bit, I dunno, distracting maybe? I dunno. The eyes thing seems to be a style you’re still developing into a signature and it’s cool, but there’s something about this one that is bugging me.
What the hell do I know? I can’t draw stick figures for Chrisakes. I’m still amazed by the hands. Very expressive. Ver *im*pressive.
Is that a Revox reel-to-reel Bud is fiddling with? Always wanted a Revox. in ’75 *everyone* used ’em as on-stage echo machines. No loop click like you got with an Echoplex. In the days when the musicians would list their instruments you were almost certain to find one lurking in amongst the guitarists’ stuff if you looked.
PS The consultant who sits behind me has David Cassidy’s “I Think I Love You” as his ringtone when his wife is calling him. It just went off. I’ll never get used to this synchronicity thing.
I deliberately never learned to type so I could never become a secretary.Of course,once the internet arrived ,I kinda regreted it.
Cha-cha-cha chaaaanges!
RE: roxysteve – No, I did a simplistic back view of Bud’s Dokorder 8140 in today’s strip. I’m not keen on props unless they are key to the comic’s joke/story. Today, it was just something for Bud to be doing instead of drinking… which is what he normally does.
I like the idea of a “song challenge” from you guys. Toss a bunch at me and I’ll compile a list from you readers and then do a week’s worth of strips using those titles. That would be fun! Winners gets… something, I’ll think on it!
The first frame eyes I like and that is the “style” I seem to have come up with… the “holy crap” look didn’t hit the mark, but I had my 82 year old father who has Alzheimer’s staying with me this past weekend and it made even DOING the comic a challenge let alone re-doing frames. C’est la vie!
I REALLY hate David Cassidy/Partridge Family. They came along just as I was discovering hard rock and my family thought I still liked that kinda crap. Imagine getting the latest album from Tony Orlando & Dawn instead of Deep Purple. Joy…
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This is the prettiest Robin you’ve drawn so far. (drawn? is that right?
Her face on the first frame it totally cute.
But it’s still ass-kicker Robs. Eheheheh.
And such niiice cleavage… 😀
If you keep this trend up, I’ll have to ask you to change my commission from a Lorraine’s to a Robyn’s one, if you have not started it yet.
Go All the Way – Raspberries
Hey ferabreu – Thanks for the compliment on Robyn. Yeah, she is looking better all the time as I get comfortable with her looks. She’s gonna rule the comics this week, so check back.
I got busy with the new website launch then I had some family “business” to deal with, so my time got sucked dry. I’ll be getting to your commission this week as things settle down.
Today was a total loss as I had to drive 170 miles round trip to return my 82 year old father to my sister’s house. Indiana and Illinois are not as close as one might think. Then today was my middle son’s 20th birthday and we celebrated with some slightly illegal fireworks I picked up in Indiana (where they’re legal to buy & use). The rest of the week promises to be “quiet” and hopefully get caught up on some much needed commissions and some work.
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Hey, don’t worry.
I’ve been a lot busy these days to.
Draw the comission with the character you see fit.
Also: if the bomber noseart turns out too difficult to do, you can make a Robyn Mechanic. 😀
Illegal fireworks?
Couldn’t the cops just see where they’ve been fired from and get to you?
170 miles is a fair amount, and sure gets a driver tired.
What car does you drive? Here in Brazil most people have small cars with small economic 4-cylinder no-more-than-1600cc engines. And cars here are really expensive… I decided to sell mine more than a year ago and take the bus and taxi to ride around. I’m blessed my girl doesn’t mind about that…heheh.
I had a Ford Escort Station Wagon, with a 1.8 16V Zetec engine. It was a runner for this country’s standards…
[Byron] Sorry about y’ Dad.
[Byron] Don’t you go through, like, 27 time zones on that drive?
Laughing HARD about your Tony Orlando collection.
Can you play the bass part to “Knock Three Times” or “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”? Just askin’ (*dodges housebrick*).
Re: ferabreu: I have a Dodge Caravan with a 3.3 liter V6 engine (had to look it up on-line). This van is a work-horse and gets my family of 5 around very well. I have had a car since I was 17 and I drive everywhere. I’ve driven as far west as the Rocky Mountains, to the East Coast, North to Minneapolis/St. Paul and South to Disney World in Florida, and pretty much every point in between. I love driving.
As far as the fireworks, I live behind a huge corn field/farm and the police in the area really don’t care as long as know one complains, so I keep the noise to a minimum.
Hey, Tony Orlando and Dawn had some great bass lines… NOT!!
Brick duly tossed… 🙂
Secretary actually means “keeper of secrets” and used to be a position of responsibility and respect.
Of course “diss” didn’t used to be a word and “enormity” used to mean horrible evil, but I’m getting over it.