Au contraire, Colbert!

It took a little while for me to find time to do a caricature that would go along with this particular subject/theme - that being the Emmys.

Per E Online:
Turning pugnacious and/or O'Reilly-esque, Colbert asserted that fellow nominee Manilow had "had a free ride for too long," and that the time had come "take him down."

"Mr. Colbert says he will then be going after Mandy," a rep said.

I figured this was quite humorous - Colbert singling out Barry as his main competition in this category... but wish this would have been played up more including some banter between Barry and Colbert. Maybe this could happen in future, but I'm hoping Barry has a good sense of humor over the character Colbert is portraying, and of course, kicks his tail end and wins the Emmy.

More Info On Rupert

Just like how we tell people there is more to Barry and his music than "Copacabana", there is more to Rupert Holmes than "Escape" (The Pina Colada song).

Here's a link to his web site and what he is up to nowadays.

The Manilow WannaBe

Rupert Holmes. That's what I thought back in the late 70's. Oh, initially I had heard the tune "Let's Get Crazy Tonight" - and thought it might be Barry. No, but I liked it anyway. (Did think he was a Barry wannabe, though.) Then one day when reading credit notes on Barry's Live Album realized that it was that very Rupert Holmes that wrote "Studio Musician"! BARRY was singing one of HOLMES' songs! I kinda always hoped they would have collaborated more. Still do.

If you ever do listen to some of Rupert Holmes' lyrics, however, his cast of characters do have an edge to them. He did go on to theater and t.v. - which does make sense. Still, I'd absolutely love to pair up Manilow and Holmes to write something or put something out there.

Anyway - for time being there is a rare video of Rupert on YouTube. ONE of him. (There's this horrible stick figure video made to the tune of "Escape" there as well.) I didn't upload this particular video, know all about the copyright issues, etc. - but golly, having never known this even existed cut, copied, and pasted the embed code to share.

Next Panel - but 1st an explanation

Okay - here's the next panel - now remember, I was in college. We came up with alternate nick names for different classes, etc. "Fundamentals of Math" - for example we dubbed "Bonehead Math". We read Oedipus Rex - but would write "Oedipus Wrecks" - complete with finger eye gouging motion. So - a group of us art majors had to take a music class which was required. If one didn't play an instrument - didn't participate in choir, etc. - you took "Exploring Music" (which is probably like "Bonehead Math", but in the music area). So, our nickname for "Exploring Music" was "Exploding Mucus". I hang my head in shame, but there you go. I imagine those music majors had nicknames for "Exploring Art" classes - like "Exploding Fart" - who knows?

Anyway, this panel is not a bash on Barry or anything - I think I was probably actually in Exploring Music at the time of drawing this strip. Also, sadly, somewhere in 4 or 5 moves, a wee bit of water damage occurred. Apparently I didn't work in permanent pen yet......

*There is one more panel, though I'm not particularily proud of the lyrics towards the end and invited blog readers to finish it out and I'd recreate the wording ... if someone can finish this off better than I, I'll submit the last panel.

Copyright Info

With the YouTube incident - where old, vintage Manilow videos were taken down - as well as advising those that wish to right-click and lift images here on this blog - here's copyright info links:

Ten Myths About Copyright Explained

and Are You A Copyright Criminal?

Unfortunate situation - I know alot of the fan base would fall into the believing the myths part. admit, I did like seeing what I missed out on many moons ago. Here's hoping there's a win/win for fans on the horizon - so fans can get old vintage material like they WANT and that it's all legal beagle.

Blast from past - panel 3

* Remember that this is going backward, so if you are new to visiting - go to first panel and read upward *














Man, I look at this and wish that in the early 80's I would have had access to Photoshop and redoing things ..... esp. with shadows, etc. I worked primarily in this strip with pens - not sure why I didn't use shaded screen as I had done with other strips.

Blast from past - panel 2

My apologies to those who liked Pres. Reagan .....

Blast From Past - panel from old comic strip!

When getting my BS degree in college - (some say I was quite gifted in b.s.) ;-) I submitted comic strips to our college paper. Because midterm exams did seem high stress - and Barry's song "Memory" was getting airplay, I changed the lyrics and had Barry in it appear as if he were one of us and going through the stresses of midterms.

EMMY!!!!

Congrats Barry for the Emmy nominations!!! Here's hoping for the award in August!

Cartoon to come - inspired by commentary from your competition! ;-)

Happy 4th Of July!

Bobblehead You'll Never See

Did a ball point pen sketch tonight of a Bobblehead you'll never get to see over at the M store. I wonder how many gutter balls he'd get - or would he be the sort that would be lucky and get strikes and spares ... shake his back end while still in the lane and examining his form and luck? Fun to think of the guy out of his element.