Freakin’ Bears Lose! And as part of a bet, I am going to draw Lorraine in a Packer’s jersey, and not much else, so expect that later this week for one and all to see!
1977 the Comic was featured as part of a Classic Rock radio show out of Ireland over the weekend. The fine hosts, Liam and Tommie, of Needle in the Groove on Dundalk FM were kind of enough to dedicate 90 minutes of air time to play my song list of rock tunes from 1977. They even phoned me and did a quickie interview. It is below for your ears to partake. I don’t swear in this one! They kick off every Saturday at 3:00pm (Ireland time, 9:00am CST). Don’t let the accents fool you, they’re great guys! If the audio player below does not work, here’s the link to the MP3 file.
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This week for Members, I not only gave them a sneak preview of the comic (as I do every week) but I also showed how the comic takes form from rough pencils, to finished pencils to the inking and shading stage. This comic was very time consuming as I had to come up with a new character. I suck at hair styles so I troll the internet until I find something I can draw.
Maureen is a composite of several of my (ex) girl friends from my ISU days. And if they read the comic, up yours bitch. I feel better. So, yes, this story is based more on me than most of the comics in 1977. Yes, I did date an older woman (did I invent cougars? Hmmm…) It was nice, she had a Visa card AND a VCR. Double-down! Okay, enough of that before I get nasty emails from the ex’s.
So in honor of my Irish hosts, here’s Denis Leary’s “Traditional Irish Folk Song”. I think I’ve had this before, but couldn’t resist putting it up again. I was on the air in Ireland! Brilliant!
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AWESOME! Especially Bud’s expression in panel 6, and his ‘bedroom eyes’ in panel 8. Now aren’t you glad you gave him eyes? 😉
~downloads your interview~
I can still remember the first time a woman said to me I had bedroom eyes… I was like “What the hell does that mean?” I found out later…
Yes, I’m glad Bud has eyes now. Just one more thing for me to draw… thanks.
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It means your eyes want to see her in your bedroom 😛
BTW while Jeff is always my first lov^H^H^H lust, I’m gradually falling for Bud and his sweet clumsy innocence. Given that you say he’s based on you, and that we’re mates, that feels a little bit, um, incestuous 😛
Kissing cousins is popular where I come from… hmmm…
Bud is much cooler than me, but I was naive. 🙂
Now if she had said, “Great quivering icebergs” she’d be quoting my favorite character from that show.
WAAAAK WAAAAK WAAAAK!
Had he tripped on an ice berg, then I may have gone that route!
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“Riddle me this! Why did Bud tumble over a stone?
Because he wanted to ROCK and ROLL!
Guh HOOO HOO HAA HAA HA HA HA!”
…okay, so it’s hard to channel Frank Gorshin in type.
Gorshin was actually very good in that role… normal once second and hyper-crazy the next. Gotta love that in a person…
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Ah, to be young and think 27 was old. How the time flies! Although if she likes Batman she can’t be that bad….right? 😉
I know, I can remember thinking that 27 *was* old. Ah, the good old days.
There’s more to Maureen than meets the eye… stand by. 🙂
Now if you’d said that and picked “Lola” as the song of the week… :p
LOL! No, Maureen is all woman… 🙂
If I’d known we’d get Lorraine “in a Packers jersey and not much else” if the Bears lost I’d have been rooting for Aaron Rogers all week.
Also, great choice with the Dennis Leary song. That and “Asshole” were the highlights of his No Cure For Cancer CD.
Denis has his moments and that album catches a few of them for sure.
Lorraine’s sketch will be delayed a bit as I’m going out of town for some family matters, but upon my return, I shall set about giving Packer’s fans what they deserve!
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Can’t wait for your exes to find your comic and start talking trash about you here.
None of my ex’s hang here, I’m fairly sure. They trashed me enough back in the 70s, they don’t need to do it again. And most of them would probably go “Who? Oh, that nut.” I was nutty.
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Beautiful job all around, especially on the color, Byron. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, Tim! I think the new format gives me more space to expand on the characters and by doing it once a week, you get a better product. Takes about a day or two to crank these out, so doing even two a week would be challenging at present. I’m trying to work on my speed, but that will come with time and practice.
Is that going to be Bud’s future wife? She looks like Buds future daughter a little. lol Oh did I give it away? haha
Nope, Lily is Bud’s future wife. You can see the comic where I reveal that here:
https://1977thecomic.com/1977-comics/tie-your-mother-down/
And if you go WAY back to January of 2009, you’ll also find out Lily has passed on by 2007. Aw….
oh yea!! lol forgot about that one.. aww she dies? 🙁
Even in cartoon land there’s bound to be some sorrow. I have an ending written for 1977 and it’s not all fun and laughs either.
I know what it was like to date someone older. I was 23 and she was 32, too bad she had a 16 year old daughter that hated my guts. Ah well, such is life.
Awsome comic references the last two times. Being a fan of both the shows/comics/movies (and I hope the upcoming Thor), I am glad to see others use/ have used those lines on other people before. lol
Holy Pick-up Lines, Batman, who hasn’t quoted the Batman TV series? Oh yeah, women *love* that… I generally went home alone on those nights…
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Man, I remember cool run=ins like that during college. That’s what made those days so great. 🙂
I know, totally. 🙂
Ahhh, I remember my college days well. I slept my way through the faculty and still graduated with “average” grades on the curve! o.O #embellishment
Oddly, most of my faculty were men… so it didn’t do me any good to sleep with them. Well, maybe a couple of them…
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