This week will have comics most of you have not seen and were done originally for the Subscriber area. I am taking this week off from drawing new comics so that I may focus on the final stages of preparation for C2E2 next week. Lot of little things to do, gather and just plain organize.
Speaking of C2E2… in case you haven’t heard, 1977 will have a table in the Webcomics Pavilion area. Sharing the table with me is Dawn Griffin of Zorphbert & Fred. Check out the snazzy header I did to help remind all visitors for the next 2 weeks of the event. If you’re in the Chicago area, I would hope you could make it to McCormick Place one of those days and drop by the table. Bring a can or bottle of Mountain Dew and get a special surprise (beside a hug from me). I’ll be doing sketches and commission, plus have the “Road Trip” comic book for sale. I’ll have some Volume One books, t-shirts and some other fine stuff for you to waste all that disposable income you have. Anyway, hope to see you there!
Here’s a little sneak-peek at the comic book cover that will be exclusive to C2E2. The cover was colored by Laurie Thomas and you can view more of her work at her website.
About the only song I like from Led Zeppelin’s “In Through the Out Door” is “In The Evening”. As I read up on the band’s history, apparently Page and Bonham were not as involved in the album due to their personal struggles with booze and drugs. Oh, and for you ABBA haters out there, this Zeppelin album was recorded in their studio, so there.
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This is truly beautiful! For some reason it reminds me of some of the old full-colour Sunday strips of Rick O’Shay, particularly the ones where Hipshot the gunslinger would be out looking over the vistas of ‘big country’. I never could get into that comic’s regular strips, but the Sunday colour ones still make a warm spot in my memories!
As a kid, there was this comic the Tribune would print every Fall of a farmer and his kid looking at some burning leaves. In the lower panel, the smoke had turned into Indians and stuff but the COLORING was to die for… but it’s been decades since I’ve seen it and I can’t find it anywhere on the internet… so if any of you out there know what I’m talking about, help a guy out with a link of something.
Yes, old Sunday comics were colored wonderfully and few comics today even come close to those old masters.
BTW that’s some fine colouring there on the convention special cover. Kudos to Laurie – it looks like proper trad-comix instead of the c21 usual computer-coloured spewsuck…
Yeah, Laurie did a bang up job. I even made a big 2.5′ x 4′ banner of the cover as well I liked it so much!
A good colorist is worth their weight in Mountain Dew as they can make the artwork really pop. It is very cool to see the characters all done up like that. Still stoked about it!
I may have Laurie do monthly desktops for me as well now that I’ve found her talents!
I second that! If one can’t have good colour, monochrome is always better than *bad( colour…
That’s a great cover, and a crying shame that there’s no way I can make the C2E2 show as you’re one of the many great reasons to go (being unemployed really sucks, eh?) Yes, that’s my real last name, and an honor to share it with your characters. Is there any chance that we underprivileged folks will get a chance to purchase your comic afterwords? I’d love to get this and a collection of your webcomics when you get around to making a print run of them.
Thanks for the weekly funnies!
Hey! It’s Jeff’s long lost cousin Drew! If you have long blonde hair over your eyes, you get a comic for free!
Fear not, all the stuff at C2E2 will be available after the show here at 1977′s internet home. I’m installing a new plug-in that will make it much easier to add product and let you check out with PayPal or credit card. I’ve implemented it on a client’s site and I like that it’s easy to use.
In a couple weeks, I’ll have everything back here for sale.
Hey Byron, this is off-topic. but what happened to Webcomics Inc.? Is it dead?
I know you were active there and seemed to have a stake in it.
I have or had no stake in Webcomics Inc. I own Webcomic Planet. But, it seems that site has gone dark. Not sure why. But, shit happens.
Stake was probably too strong a term. I just remembered seeing your wallpaper flying there as something one could purchase for points. It was what originally brought me to your comic.
Ah well, c’est la vie.
Interesting… well, then it seemed to work in some ways… I’ll have to contact the owner of Webcomics Inc. and see what’s up.
I getcha now, re: stake… I’m open to help out a fellow webcomic artist or site. Networking is what it is all about and you never know when that next link will bring you one person or 1000, so I try a lot things.
“I’m Gonna Crawl” is probably my favorite from In Through the Out Door, though it’s just another slow blues. Some hardcore Zep fans I know really like Carouselambra, but I never really got that one. Zep had supposedly been working on it and were going to give it a go live on the 1980 US tour that didn’t happen, that might have been interesting.
That’s the one thing about Zeppelin, they drew in a diverse crowd and they all go for different things. Led Zeppelin was able to crank a variety of styles, I give them that! I’m not much on ballads period, so All of My Love just doesn’t to it for me, regardless of the lyrical intent. I have a one track mind and go for the more upbeat stuff… keeps me awake.
Nice jacket. Good luck with the “home stretch” before C2E2, glad I am basically done. (*ahem* NEE-ner NEE-ner!)
I had a jacket just like that and wore it for years/decades until it just fell apart. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Was soooo comfortable and warm even though your neck was wide open!
We hates the hover-comment on the nice comixes so we does, don’t we my precious?
Yes. Yes we does my lovely. Byron should pushes it out through the in door.
We likes “Carouselambra” and “In The Evening”, and we likes “All of My Love” too, especially we liked it as part of Laser Zeppelin in the Hayden Planetarium, with the soundses up loudloudloud so our poor earses wouldn’t work for an hour afterwards, didn’t we my love?
Eh? Speak up my precious!
Consider it gone… it’s a new feature of the Comic Press software release and I’ve been dabbling with it. I’m not much on it either.
I have similar conversations, by the way…
“I have similar conversations, by the way…”
Dude. Doesn’t everyone?
So how come it’s not gone for meeee? I’m with the Steve on this one. Ghastly infuriating mouse-hover fuglies. We hatesss them, preciousss…
Ah, finally, got through the archive! Really cool comic, man, it cracks me up everytime. Though I wasn’t even born in the 70s doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy some fake nostalgia!
And it seems my ex-communist country is just beginning to enjoy the past, what with Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Elton John concerting in a single month. The times, they are-a changing, indeed…
Hey Dude… Glad you’re along for the ride! Yeah, the archives get deeper every week. Over 300 comics to read now. It’s come a long way. Just reworked the first 100 for a CD-ROM I’m doing and man, I cringe at the drawing style, but the humor is still there.
As Bruce Willis said in Die Hard… “Welcome to the party, pal!”
Hehe, thanks
I was junior high school punk in ’77 and this comic definitely takes me back to the day. Very funny stuff. The music references remind me of playlists on my ipod, too.