Hi readers! So this comic addresses a topic that is very near and dear to my heart, namely the question of whether or not to “work blue” in the Stanford Webcomics Experiment, as the old vaudevillians say. Although sometimes I have the devil in me a little bit and try to “cut loose” with the language and situational comedy, it remains one of my COREST CONVICTIONS that if you do not have anything funny to say about a situation without violating the bounds of social decency we have always had since the dawn of civilization against dirty language… well… don’t do it! Life is brutal and difficult enough and it is hard enough to claw your way up from the lowest places you can get to, places where you have just been deserted by everyone you cared about in your life and without a dime in your pocket you were willing to do… well… anything for an honest dollar in your pocket! Fortunately such times are long behind most of us and we can go to Shoney’s for a heavy dose of James Clavell and hamburger meat and coffee to do our best thinking about the future of our webcomics projects and we can even leave the standard tip of 10% without having to make up complicated lies and payback schemes and sometimes to leave towns for different towns, like starting on a fresh piece of paper and just dreaming readers, just dreaming…
May the Laughs Be With You!!!!
Steven Junior Incorporated
So out of curiosity, do you find Lenny Bruce to be funny? Should I be listening to him and trying to understand what he is saying to “the masses?” I mean, this comic is the kind of thing that I find funny, not “stand-up,” but I am ALWAYS willing to learn if you say he is one of your influences. Maybe I am way off base here, but I think there is an A&E special on Lenny Bruce that I can watch if you think that I should.
Maybe you could just tell me who Lenny Bruce is.
Lenny Bruce was actually a close friend of my father’s, who frequented many of the same establishments as Mr. Bruce in the years after his discharge from the Air Force aerial photography analysis section at the cessation of hostilities in the Korean War, during which time he worked as a steelfitter in postwar Los Angeles (which looked more like the set of the TV series MASH than the actual Korean Peninsula did let me tell you) and knew many famous movie stars. I believe that Mr. Bruce and he drank together.
Steve Junior
Cartoonist
I believe that the “Ghost of Lenny” guides my right hand (or left, whichever I happen to be drawing with, as I am an ambidextrous). Sometimes he lashes out, but usually I pretty got it under control.
It would be fair to say he “pushes” me to be the “Laugh Professional” that I am.
But do I push back? You bet I do.
Steve Junior
Cartoon Warrior
Red Skelton never worked blue either, but Redd Foxx did and now both of them are dead. Guess which one is in heaven?
The one who isn’t Irish?
Ha! Ha!
Just a little “blue” humor! SORRY TO ALL MY IRISH FRIENDS! Ha! Ha!
Steve Junior
Cartoonist
m very happy to see your article. Thanks so much and i am taking a look forward to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a mail?
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I will not! I am the artist, and you are the supplicant. It is YOU who mails ME. Care of General Delivery, Hayti MO 63851.
Steve Junior
Cartoon Artist