Welcome to L. A., land of sunshine, smog, earthquakes, mud slides, riots, high rents, grid-lock traffic, and bubble headed bleach blondes trying to make it big as waitresses, um, actresses. Why do people want to live there again? Well, the gang has just “motored stately into big L. A.”, we’ll find out on Monday.
Foghat’s 1975 album “Fool for the City” was NOT their biggest album, it was their 1977 “Foghat Live” album that takes that claim. But “Fool” did spawn their most famous song of “Slow Ride”. At over 8 minutes long, we DJs loved the song as it gave us time to take a pee/smoke break without having to do it in under 3 minutes. My leg for an engineer back then who could spin the next record.
Sorry for the late final version. Wednesday was whirl-wind of comments, and it inspired me to create the “Thor” desktop and that ate up some production time for this comic. Plus, I just got tired Thursday as I seemed to drag all day. The cool days and constant rain in Chicagoland was the reason. Final version as soon as it’s ready on Friday.
I was reminded that the new desktop looks like a character from the Justice Friends. See for yourself below:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nL4yfoO5A3
It has always gotten me how animators switch guitarists from playing as a lefty to a righty given angle the character is at. Most animators show guitarists almost always as a lefty as they model stuff in a mirror and guess who a guitarist looks in a mirror… oh yeah, lefty. This clip shows Val Hallan playing it both left and right handed. Go figure.
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Discussion (16) ¬
Was traffic that bad in the 70’s? How about the 1870’s. Sorry folks there is a stagecoach pile up ahead. We might as well relax and wait it out.
I’m with you, I think L.A. has had bad traffic forever. Never driven in L.A. and don’t intend too. I understand it’s a nightmare most times.
Let’s count the Shout Outs today … “bubble headed bleached blonde” is from Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry”, “stately downtown L.A.” is (sort of) from “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo” by Lobo, and the new Thor wallpaper looks a lot like Val Hallan from the “Justice Friends” cartoon (“Yea, verily, dude, begone lest I thrash upon thee with my mighty axe!”).
WOW! A Lobo reference! You win the “prize” of the day for jarring my old memory. When I wrote that late last night I was too tired to remember where the line came from that was bugging my very tired and worn out brain. I went and looked up the line and it is now in quotes above!
JUSTICE FRIENDS UNITE!! Oh. My. God. I had totally forgotten about that cartoon from Dexter’s Lab or something. Hot damn, I’m adding that to post above!
Crap, now I owe you something… Hmmm… 🙂
No worries! I like the pencils! 🙂
Pencils = good. It’s teh funny that I read for anyway, and you delivered that.
Wait, what? I thought L.A. was a *great big* freeway?
I don’t know what it is about the pencil drawings, but they always seem so much richer than an inked version! The raw artistic quality just draws me in!
I think for me the pencils look more natural, but also appear flat. Now, I can do shading and stuff to get the pencils to look more dimensional, but by the time I’ve done that, I could have just inked it and colored it. So, there’s no real time savings, so I continue to do them in color as that’s how I started the comic.
If I do shift to B&W, then I would want to do at least 5 updates plus a Sunday color comic, and have the Sunday edition be off topic as I would print them in a different volume.
It’s a real hard decision. I’m a huge proponent of color for webcomics, as color on the internet is free, but then when I go to print them, the cost is about quadruple for color versions, and there’d be little or no profit in it for me. I’m an artist, but I’m a business man first. No profit, no bother.
Perhaps a special collector’s edition with special features at some point, but I’d have to print like 500 copies and I don’t think I could sell that many unless I’m heavily into conventions. We’ll see next year!
Long story for a short answer: Yes, I prefer the pencil versions too… once I’ve cleaned them up a bit.
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Thats why moped were invented wasnt it? lol
Great strip! Wow, reminds ME not to drive thru downtown LA!!
LA traffic has only gotten worse since then. I’m literally an hour and a half away from there, but it takes me about three hours or more to travel by car. 🙂
Wow! I thought DC traffic was bad, but I guess you’re right. Slow ride indeed.
LOL, yeah this is very true 🙂
Yes Folks, LA traffic was that bad in the ’70’s, too. I was there with my band trying to conquer the world in the late 70’s, and at one point when we were living in Anaheim, I was seeing a gal who was in Santa Monica. Simple drive: take I-5 NW to LA, I-10 West to Santa Monica – about 35 miles as I remember… Except… LA traffic was terrible even late at night & in the middle of the day. Even if I went at one of those times it would be a minimum of 50 minutes to get to her house. God save you if you went during the AM or PM rush-hour. Then it was 1 1/2 to 2 hours.