If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
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Bassman Webcomics: Inspired by John Cage
Oct 7th
In college, where I was a music minor (and an English major and always wanted those two to flip), I had a professor who was deep into the New York avante garde scene of composition. John Cage was a god to these guys. The other day, I read an interesting profile of Cage in New Yorker and thought I might bring his ideas into my Bassman webcomic.
Here’s what I got so far:
You can peruse the entire Bassman collection (if you dare) here.
Peace (in the silence),
Kevin
What I’ve been up to … Bassman Comics
Aug 30th
While I was away on a blogging vacation in August, I also kept creating more Bassman webcomics, in which I am poking fun at my love of music and playing in rock and roll bands. My hope is to get my 12 year old son to take these basic comics and do the artwork. He started the project but then stopped.I think it was right around the time he finally earned an iPod touch. Hmmm.
This is what he drew up for me first:
Here is a collection of the 20-odd strips I am working on with Bassman:
Peace (in the frame),
Kevin
Bassman hits 10 (comic strips)
Jul 11th
(This is still sort of a rough draft of a comic about a band. I’d like to do my own art in the future. Right now, I am focusing in on the writing and characters.)
Peace (in the music),
Kevin
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