NEW STRIP :: The Skating Kazoo, Page 3 of 3
April 20th, 2009 — 07:41 pm
Okay, okay, okay my bro’s: all done with that little slice of life story, yessirree. Special thanks to my coworkers Shawn Reynolds and Seth Peagler, who had some really sweet things to say about the first page. I am not particularly proud of this strip, so I am indebted to them for the encouragement, as it made me actually finish the thing up, as opposed to doing other stuff and forgetting about it eventually.
No joke: I eat some praise up. IT’S LIKE HONEY TO ME. But anyway, click here to see this badboy.
Also in the Dharb-news this week: I’m getting ready to fire up the might of Twitter for my work, and so I have signed myself up for Twitter. I’d like to pretend that it was purely for research purposes, you know for the whole work thing, but in all actuality I just can’t resist the lure of talking about myself EVEN MORE. So if you’re a Twitter-er, now you can get EVEN MORE of me, every day, all day.
For some reason, last night I woke up at 3 in the morning and could never get back to sleep. This isn’t all that remarkable, except that this NEVER happens to me–I’m a sound sleeper, and it usually takes me about 3 minutes to doze off each night. By 4 I had finally turned the light on to try and read myself back into slumber-ville–I read the rest of that Wired issue with the Paul Pope story that I lettered (remember that?). By 5 o’clock I just said screw it and got up to just go ahead and start working, and cleverly decided to walk the dog seconds before the heavens opened up and soaked us both.
As I type this I can barely keep my eyes open, but I WANTED YOU TO KNOW the great and noble lengths I go to each week to bring you ART, like Prometheus himself, harpy-scarred and grinning. Good night, Internet.
Category: BLOG 7 comments »
April 20th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Wonderful!! Even better than the 1983 style phone was the 1983 style car phone aerial in panel 1.
The reaction of the talent scout– whom I am certain must be a relative of (then) living-legend Bob Hope– was terrific; but the panel showcasing your performance on the Tonight Show was nothing short of inspired.
To tell you the truth– and I am confident that I speak for every-one–it is a good thing the Tonight Show didn’t see you or we would never have gotten to know and you probably would have ended up years later in some celebrity rehab center. The road of the child star kazoo playing roller skater is indeed a slippery slope.
Really great cartooning Dustin!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Jeez Andy you are WAY TOO KIND! I’m going to name you fan #1… I’ll print up some cards or something to commemorate.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I’m glad you finished this strip, Dusty. It’s very pretty and it has a special place in my heart because I used to go through a similar thing where I would do karate moves in the front yard and imagine that there was some kind of karate-master inside the house secretly talking to my mom, trying to convince her to let me join his secret clan.
It’s nice to know that I wasn’t the only kid who was too vain for his own good.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
If only the imaginary spotlight was good enough, Joe. I could score your karate movies.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:39 am
I love the last 3 panels. They really show off your ability to make the most of the comic medium.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:18 am
It’s too bad you didn’t live closer to town. That guy came to my street all the time. I never had any good talents to show him. One time I tried break dancing, but he just yelled “GOOOOOO!” to his driver. I never saw him again after that.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
What Andy said!! Also what Mr. Sub Sub said, kind of!
Dustin, you picturing yourself as Pro-metheus in the blurb needs drawing by you. PLEASE?!?!
GOOD, GOOD, GOOD!