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Binderup, William – Blues-O-Rama
Blues-O-Rama (written by RR Schuler)
Who loves old blues music? I’m talking about the old scratchy recordings or people from the 20’s and 30’s here. This is a comic about two of those people. The first story, done entirely by RR Schuler, is about Robert Johnson. Robert had a tragically brief career, as he made too many enemies going from town to town and sleeping with various girlfriends and wives of other men and ended up dying in agony days after being poisoned. The second story is about Lightnin’ Smith and the tale of the night another young man came in and tried to upstage the old timer. I hadn’t heard of Lightnin’, but any information about Robert Johnson is a wonderful thing as he left such a small amount of music behind and so little is known about the guy. A great comic if you know of either one of these people, or if you’re just curious about where blues as a genre really came from.
Binderup, William – How to Cook a Chicken in Your Underwear
How to Cook a Chicken in Your Underwear
Is it odd when the title of your comic is the significantly shorter story? Anyway, there are two tales in this one. The first one deals with two men (I’m guessing William and John) going to an Indian sweat lodge to have a vision quest. A neat concept and the journey to the lodge was well done, although the actual vision was only covered in the most generic, psychedelic way. Hey, maybe that’s all he saw, who am I to say? And it probably doesn’t help a humor comic along to have an intense personal vision in the book. Still, I want to see what he saw because I’m nosy. The other story dealt with an artist not showing up for a radio promotion and the mess that it caused. I don’t know a thing about the habits of comic “professionals”, but it’s a funny story and a bit sad to see that the organizer still had to kiss the guy’s ass after he didn’t show up because he didn’t want to risk alienating any other artists in the future. A short comic but it looks great and it’s funny. Send money to: Cocked and Loaded Studios 11828 Quivira Overland Park, KS 66210.
