QUOTE="stephenlee, post: 12568196, member: 7911"] [/QUOTE] Just as touching now as the first time I read these ... Thanks ... God bless Garry Trudeau
Yes, this is for real and it's happening soon. Whatever one might think, it does make more sense than Archie Meets the Punisher.
That reminded me of this instrument used by Les Luthiers. A bycicle with a complex system that allows you to play a bouzouki by using the pedals.
At first the art of music sought purity, limpidity and sweetness of sound. Then different sounds were amalgamated, care being taken, however, to caress the ear with gentle harmonies. Today music, as it becomes continually more complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange and harsh sounds. In this way we come ever closer to noise-sound. —Luigi Russolo The Art of Noises (1913) Those visual depictions of static are too cool for words!
Hippies had just about disappeared from the funny pages by the mid-70s.....except in the world of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, where the medallion-wearing, acoustic guitar-bearing Bohemians were still in evidence as late as March 4, 1975:
Information about Kay K is scarce....I've only found one example on the Internet, and nothing about the artist, or the duration of the feature. All I know is that she entertained the readers of 16 Magazine in the mid-60s.... 16 Magazine, January 1966: 16 Magazine, February 1966:
You're so welcome! There might be one or two more somewhere in the house I could scan and post here. Today I learned there's actually a rapper out there called "Kay K"....not the info I was looking for!
Cool,! That'd be great if you could dig them out as well! I was very taken by the style of this comic strip.. loved the Roger McGuinn reference!
