Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for June 06, 2024

French fry jackpot!

Was the volume set at 11?

Turn it up …

Must’ve set the amps at the highest level.

Jimi Hendrix school of Rock graduate ?

Does he use a Canine woofer?

I’ve seen my parents go on pass the house when I was practicing on the guitar while the windows were open.

reminds me of the opening scene of Back to the Future

There are a lot of people who think you can convert bad “music” to good music just by playing it louder.

The Fender Stratocaster. The most iconic shape in the world.

Rock and Roll Professor.

A couple of other details worth noting:

Notice Hammy’s left foot. Also note the the Stratocaster neck. This pair of little details is called a ‘frame bridge’.

In the late 1940s, ‘Father’ Walt Kelly of POGO fame became annoyed with said publishers and editors. They wanted freedom to break cartoon strips into 2 or more lines so they could cram more ads onto the page. They still do. Walt protested vehemently.

His strips relied on a linear layout for the visual punch. The Human eye easily scans vertically, not so much horizontally. That curious bit of physiologic trivia was important to Walt. He did NOT want the reader’s eyes to see the last panel before reading what led to it, and spoiling the ‘punch’.

The publishers and editors told him to “Get bent!” Walt began intentionally drawing his cartoons to make it very difficult for them to split the strip. He went from the standard 4 panels to 3 … or just one … but still used the entire space normally allotted for a 4-panel strip. For strips where the plot required 4 panels, he took to having characters or the backgrounds ‘bridge’ across that editorially sacrosanct white space between panels. He also put his signature between panels.

He had Albert scratch a match on the outside of the succeeding frame, of Churchy hold up his reading glasses and squint to see if they needed cleaning – with the bow(s) intruding across the white space and into the next frame. Pogo would throw up his hands about some nonsense perpetrated by one or several other characters, with one across the white space.

The editors and publishers fired back, saying they would refuse to print any strip that did this. Walt said “Go ahead, and see what your readers think.” Since his strips were immensely popular, the editors and publishers folded. And other cartoonists began to use the same technique to guard their strips.

Hammy must be a the lead guitarist for the rock group Disaster Area.

That was a risky move, given how humans usually deal with pesky animals.

Ok, I’m old, but if take out would bribe the guys with bass amps in their cars, I would gladly contribute.

Woo- Hoo! indeed.

I guess I’m too old to get it here.