“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was the first movie that I got into the actual production of the film. I read the novel that was written like a script (not a true script, but a good facsimile therein). I was 12 when it came out and one of my sisters bought the book and it was one of my first influences into doing production work and/or writing. I mention this only because I love that line (the one Bud uses today) in the movie after they blow the crap out of safe aboard a train only to flatten the entire train car. It also sets up one of the longest chase scenes I can remember in a film. Great film and a good one to study for film making, good and bad. Plus, Redford and Newman rock.
I’m a big fan of Sweet. I discovered them with “Little Willy” when they were more of an Archies rip-off band. But with the release of “Fox on the Run” they became a very cool rock band and I followed them for a long time even getting some imports by them. Today’s title is just fun and fits the action nicely!
httpvh://youtu.be/63CiRbiaoFo
Well, I’ll be darn, at the first try they actually got him. Oh happy days indeed are coming back for Bud and Jeff. 🙂
If you note, Jeff has a slight smile.. pleased that one of his plans worked!
🙂
Love the ‘before and after’ hair (and faces!) 😀
Yay! I love shit like that too. Challenging to draw, but fun.
🙂
Also, it looks fantastic in colour too!
Now THAT little event’s going to be fun to explain to some confused neighbors…
Their neighbors gave up on them back when they were setting off M-80s with lightening rods in the backyard. Besides, do you mess with a guy who owns a flamethrower? No.
😛
Heh heh, I need to go through the archives when I get the chance and see just what kind of havoc these guys have really caused.
Also, if you don’t mind my asking a technical question, how do you do your coloring? Do you set down a half-opacity layer and gray out the shading before laying down the base colors, or something different entirely?
Yes, I do all my shading and highlights in my drawing software, Manga Studio, then I do my colors in Photoshop using the bucket fill tool. When I have more time, I do all my coloring in Manga studio then I would use various shades of the same color to create the shadows. For the daily strips, I use a 30 or 40% gray “marker” tool to draw in my shading.
You didnt even give the squirrels time to protect their nuts! [blinks]
Their nuts are now roasted on an open fire…
🙂
Smoked nuts … mmmmmm! Good with beer.
Sweet! 😉
Works on a couple of levels there. 😀 Haven’t thought or heard of those guys in over 20 years. Have to confess, one of the bands I never had in my collection. No reason, just fell through the cracks. Never heard Wig Wam Blam before, but certainly recognized the sound instantly.
The look on Jeff’s face there in panel #4 … that’s the take-away shot for the week. 😀
Earned his Super Genius cred this day, and he can’t believe it.
Sweet progressed in musical styles about the same time as I did. In the early ’70s we had a lot of pop-rock or bubble-gum music on the radio and their early stuff fits the times perfectly. But in the mid-’70s music was shifting… disco, punk and heavier rock was becoming more mainstream as well, so when they shifted to the “Fox on the Run” sound, it was perfect timing on their part. My favorite is “Action” by them. Def Leppard did a good cover of it in the ’90s, but the original beats it up. Not sure what ever happened to Sweet, so I’ll have to go Wikipedia them now and see what they went.
I love Jeff’s line “Make squirrels go boom!” and it makes me pee my pants a tad every time I read it. Just me.
🙂
Love the look of the tree both before and after. I hate drawing trees almost as much as hands.
I’d rather draw hands then the damn background scenery. This comic took forever due to all the coloring and details in the garbage cans and tree limbs, etc. Comics that feature only the cast I can knock in no time at all, but do I draw those kinds of strips? No. Stupid artist!
🙂
But but but one of your most visually fantastic strips was Bud and his cougar sitting in a tree at the campus rock festival, remember? All that scenery detail was well worth the time expended on it 🙂
Yeah, that was a fun one to draw. I think my complaint comes from a lack of time I can invest in the comic at this point in time as opposed to my not liking to draw those kinds of scenes. I always have to balance out time vs. return when it comes to the comic. Which sucks as I want to put out the best product I can, but have to realistic about my time spent on it.
Sucks. 😉
True enough, but still, the effort gets noticed…
Someone call PETA!!!!! 🙂
When the smoke clears, no one will know what hit them, except the tree which is now leafless.
😛
“No actual squirrels were harmed in the making of this comic.”
There. PETA’s happy now.
Although, to really cover your ass, might not hurt to put that disclaimer right up in the site banner. There’s been a lot of squirrel-related mayhem in this strip over the years …
hehe. Got em all! 🙂
Uhhhh, I wouldn’t necessarily speak too quickly on that. Jeff certainly got a lot of ’em … but one of the laws of the cartoon universe is that the mastermind nemesis is always a bit ( … wait for it … wait … ) squirrely. 😈
I’d lay better than an even-money bet that she’ll be back. Hard to give up on a source for good stash.
Did you check out the hole in the tree? Perhaps ONE is still left after all… Hmmm…
😛
Byron, I have no problem with whatever you do to those fuzzy-tailed rats. They’re not cute, they chew wiring, they gnaw their way into your attic, they’re about as useless as ticks and mosquitoes. Bring on the squirrel mayhem!
What I like to do, after you have watch the Bikini movies, turn down the sound, load up a group like Sweet, have a few beers and away you go.