OK, we all could use a good laugh these days — These days? Most days! — and I got one texted to me late last night by a couple of guitar-playing pals in California.
The cartoonist is Michigan’s own Dave Coverly, and you can catch his act at speedbump.com. Buy his book, prints, or original artwork while you’re there. He’s done a couple of these eye-chart gags and they’re all killer. Also, dogs and cats. What’s not to like?
Those of you who share my buddies’ fondness for pickin’ and grinnin’ — I’m looking at you, Pat O’B — should give this one a look-see. I haven’t tried it yet, but I did some research and Dave’s eye chart is 20/20.
• Update: I asked Dave (belatedly) for permission to reproduce his cartoon here, and he tells me that it’s a doctored version that musicians have been passing around for a while now. There’s another that uses notation from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. I should’ve picked up on it because the voice balloon and chart don’t match his other work. Derned Innertube pirates are everywhere, and it seems they’re all in a band.
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That is really clever, and I didn’t get it until I read the caption!
https://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tom_petty_and_the_heartbreakers/american_girl_crd.html
I knew PO’G was pulling, or plucking, our strings when I thought about/sounded it out a bit. Very clever but nothing to fret about. :-)
took me a second or two. Hee and haw!
Good stuff. Check out his website. Ol’ Herb must know of his works, being up there in the Great White North and all.
It’s so prematurely GREEN here it almost hurts to look out the window over the baronial estate. Which needs the groundskeeper to shag ass and get busy but he (me) thinks nice weather is meant for sport not (Maynard G Krebbs voice) WORK?!! Mr. Coverly’s tunes pop up every day in My Comics feed. Many a chuckle to be had.
Maynard G. Krebs and his old buddy, Dobie Gillis. Talk about many a chuckle to be had. I identified with Maynard. Go figure. No wonder I turned into, like, a beatnik, man.
A tune which in my mind is connected forever with liver, fava beans and chianti.
I prefer to remember Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield.
Damn musicians always trying to steal some licks!
Some dog families might recognize Dave’s work from the Bark Box
https://www.speedbump.com/#/bark/