Archive for February, 2010
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Good news Everyone! 1977 has an updated website and now has an independent blog built in!
My good friend and Comic Press wizard Phil Hofer created an updated theme for 1977 so that it could take advantage of the most recent Comic Press upgrade. 1977 had been running on CP 2.5, and is [...]
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There are many words that parted my lips when this image of Lorraine arrived in my email today – all of them words of joy and many of them not suitable for public blogs… but HOLY CRAP!! is what came out first.
If you do not know who David Reddick is, then you’ve been under a [...]
In 1977, Mike Olson, owner & manufacturer of Gnu Snowboards, made his first snowboard in shop class. You’re welcome Shaun White. While the rest of us were making ashtrays or dust pans, Mr. Olson was saying “I’m gonna make a really fat ski…” The rest is history.
Don’t know what a Dilly Bar is? Oh, man, [...]
Let it snow, man! It’s been almost two years since we’ve seen the powdery stuff here in 1977 and with this being Chicagoland, you gotta have some snow now and then. I am not trying to be too logical in the timeline with the comic, but obviously most of 1977 has taken place thus far [...]
And what a wonderful way to come back… I was reminded by my editor that this works two ways as Jeff’s parents made their millions off the Bi-Cotton Rod. I hadn’t even thought of that angle! I like this strip as it also conveys the characters are sometimes quite innocent at their roots.
Every so often [...]
Alrighty then…. after doing major work this week on client’s sites and putting out a few personal fires, last night just got clogged up with all types of stuff. So, here’s the pencil sketch of today’s comic. Inks and coloring tomorrow.
I’m bringing back Stoner Vision. As Bud smokes weed, various cartoon characters will appear. Mostly [...]
Don’t ask why they did this, they just did. Did you ever think something sounded good at first but then when you actually ate/drank it you about puked? Seagram’s and 7-Up are great together… replace the 7-Up with Mountain Dew and you’ve got barf. So, dried up Jalapenos ended up in the stash… perhaps not [...]
I will try most anything once… Jeff is becoming quite the cook it would seem. Never dropped Acid (except for the kind that comes in batteries and eats up your jeans) as my mind is already on full-tilt crazy and I don’t need anything to artificially enhance those images in my head. I’d hate to [...]
Hey, I couldn’t resist this Kiss reference… also, about as full frontal as 1977 is gonna get for the time being. I’ve been wanting to get away from boob jokes, but I had a few left in my system and thought with Valentine’s day just around the corner, I’d set the bar up a notch [...]
You can’t blame Jeff, she did ask what he was thinking…
Ray Charles is not the first thing I think of when I want to rock and roll, but one cannot ignore his sheer talent and his influences on all music forms over the decades. So today I stroll a bit from the 70s and [...]
Chet seems to be a swinger of sorts these days. Who knew nerds had it in them? Hmmm….
Oh, man, do I remember Quadraphonic as a miserable failure of an audio format. It was even worse then the Beta vs. VHS clash of the 80s. Here it was 2 vs 4 speakers. [...]
Happy Birthday to me… Oh, yeah, bolt on the handle bars to the headboard and go for a RIDE!
Been an interesting week, but here’s a good story for once! Wednesday had the makings of being a rotten day. Woke with a raging sore throat (that my youngest rug-rat gave me) and just feeling kinda icky. [...]
Another good title for today would have been “Run Like Hell” from Floyd, but I’ve been a little Floyd heavy lately, so I went with the great catch phrases from the two greatest baseball announcers ever… Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. Caray was over at the Sox for a while and has a bit of [...]
“Not Fragile” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, August 1974, Mercury Records.
One of the best Stadium rock and roll albums ever recorded. Forget Kiss, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple or even Black Sabbath. When Bachman-Turner Overdrive rolled into your city your ears and body were pounded with a solid 90-minute musical set of rock songs designed to put a [...]
It’s my Birthday Week (February 5th for those new to the game), so let’s start it off with a little background on our favorite Irish drummer, Robyn McKenna. I was put under the table by more than one Irish chick back in the day and I learned quickly not to compete with them.
So, in [...]
