Cold Pizza & Warm Beer
This is a rough pencil of today’s comic. I’ll update it later today or so. Too many doctors appointments and remodeling chores to get this done on time, plus I hung out at a comic con this past weekend and that ate a lot of my time as well. Plus, this gives you an idea of my art process.
Bud’s focus is on Jeff smoking a joint for breakfast but completely ignores the fact that he’s drinking leftover beer and eating cold pizza. Sunday mornings in college I would consume any leftover pizza and beer in my dorm room from the Saturday night parties. Hair of the dog, man. Anyway, the conflict of Bud vs. Landlord Jeff is just beginning. You’ll see where this is leading here fairly soon.
When I launched the comic way back in 2008, pot had a strong presence in the comics until I realized stoners didn’t have money to buy books and t-shirts from comic artists like myself. So, I ditched the pot references for the most part sometime in the first two years. But, the best description of the early comics was with Boston’s “Smokin'” and it did fit the bill nicely. Boston’s first album is still a favorite of mine.
4:20 is in the afternoon, much like this CanCon memory from roughly the same time period,.
Had to be 4:20 though, 1620 just doesn’t have the same ring 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8IcW5TtP0E
Lighthouse!! Haven’t heard them in decades! I had their “One Fine Morning” vinyl but that disappeared in one of the many moves I did during my college years. Now I’m gonna have to hop over to eBay and find that album again. The YouTube version is a remix and sounds horrible plus is gets rid of the guitar solo at the end of the song bouncing from side to side. Wild on headphones back in the day.
It was even better live 🙂 I saw them here in this tiny little town when they were touring and playing anyplace that could sell enough tickets to pay for gas to get to the next one. And for the comic tie-in I missed earlier, “it was 4 in the afternoon when I wrote this tune…” 🙂
If you like them, wait until you see what I’m holding onto waiting for the right tie-ins 😉
And in no time at all, I found a near-mint version of the “One Fine Morning” album still in the original shrink wrap. Bought it and will be arriving very soon!
Mine isn’t mint, it’s kind of chewed up where one of the cats sharpened its claws on the whole shelf of LP’s, but I bought it when it first came out and it still plays, probably.
If I was living with Bud I could cook for him the poor dear and share some of my food I did that for my former room mates. Bud should have payed at first and last months rent he’s lucky Jeff is a easy going landlord. Not the sexy Catherine from the post apocalyptic comedy Bounty Killers. Catherine won’t just corner the market she’ll own using her tied up exhusband as a figurehead. So Bud is either a naked slave or left in the desert. But she is defeated by Mary Death love her mini dress driving a ford mustang love the movie. Speaking of which I love dressing up for comic cons going as Britany Miller from Sorority Girls (love the mini kilt) versus zombies or a sexy witch or a tuxedo lady show girl. Went to a drag show though the drag queens were more butch than I bigger, stronger and hairyer. But they can lipsic better than I. while I was wearing a little black dress in the snow cozy in hosery on my way home from the show.
My middle son goes to drag queen shows all the time. He and his finance love going as they have a blast. The pictures he’s shared with me look like total fun. I have never seen a drag queen show, but I have been in The Abbey, West Hollywood’s finest gay bar. A friend of mine was marrying a transgender porn star and I was his best man. So for his bachelor party we hit a few gay bars in West Hollywood. As a straight man, I did have a good time that evening.
Doubt under the circumstances I could get a passport and do a drag show in your home town for first day of spring. I know you don’t get ice and snow in North Carolina like Ontario so I could wear halter tops, mini dresses, short shorts, heels and swimsuits. Then again what would I say to my mother should I be arrested and deported. I hope Baily your dog is comfortable and being loved one of my neighbour had a sweet little scotty Velvet. She was a sweet heart and I miss her. But another neighbour has fire ball who is lovable and I still have my sisters dogs Grace and Max. Just love Baily and be thankful she is a loving lady.
Cold pizza and warm beer, the breakfast of champions !!! it should be cold too, ‘radar ranges’ had been around for decades by then, not they weren’t as small as that modern looking compact microwave on the counter….when I bought our first $800 one in the mid-80’s it was twice the size of that 😉
I was wondering if anyone was going to call me out on how small the microwave is for 1977. Yes, microwaves of that era were true boat anchors and behemoths for sure.
Oh do I know doctors appointments! Undergoing trans-cranial magnetic stimulation right now. Five doctors appointments a week for two months. the parking alone is killing me. Let alone sitting in a chair while a combination of Picachu and a woodpecker beat on my head half an hour a day.
If it weren’t a serious subject such as your health, I so would draw Pikachu and Woody Woodpecker beating on a patient’s head.
Also, whoa! FIVE appointments a week for two months!! Holy crap, I am so sorry you’re going through all of that. I hope the end result is worth it for you. I wish you well!
Happy St Patricks day I’m wearing a Guinness hat, top, bustrie body suit, green mini kilt and sexy boots that day to honor Robyn. But I’d be lying if I did not admit love showing off legs and rump. Doubt if a horny laprechaun will say I can your underwear . I’m having Irish stew with mushrooms yeah mushrooms and beer yeah beer. Hope you have a top of the morning St Patricks day come rain or snow. If you see a laprechaun in green dress, kilt, hot pants or skirt with heels or sexy boots please tell me.
And Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you too! My day was neither exciting nor dull, so it was a good day all around. Actually, I think a good portion of the day working on the next comic. If I were to see a leprechaun in the outfit you described, I would know it was time to stop drinking beer and go home. 🙂
Better not go to North Carolina for March break stay home drink chocolatey goodness of a Guinness observed by the late Anthony Bourdain and read his books. Than again one can watch parts unknown or March break movies about American hedonism in a seemly happier past like Were te Boys are women seeking romance, Lake Havasu grand theft auto and sexy teacher. Then Parrania in 3d prehistoric piranhas eatting mean girls and stud boyfriends, Spring Break 1983 it has David Hasselhoff and a pant eatting alligator. Hopefully the hedonistic won’t invade you niegborhood and drive you insane. Crushing beer cans on their heads, dancing naked on your roof, soiling themselves then passing out I weep for the future.