Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 18, 2009

You get ‘im, Lio. What a clown.

Get ‘im, Lio!!!!

Go, Lio, go! You don’t have to take that overdone criticism, no matter how much your playing offends the ears!

Classic Loony Toons move. :D

5000 Fingers of Dr. T a’ la Lio. Nicely nicely.

So many critics don’t understand modern music.

He yelled so hard he lost a tooth in panel 3.

as a music instructor you must be polite in your criticism say something like you give Jack Benny a run for his money. In Liõ’s case negative feedback could be used as in you’ll never be as good as Harpo Marx if you play like that.

A poison tipped bow no doubt.

This reminds me of a scene from Robin Hood.

Teacher is a bit high strung. Well, he asked for… Ready, Aim, Fire!!!

I’m sure the teacher would like Lio to play a solo…solo no one can hear it. Or maybe play tenor…tenor twenty miles away. (ba-da-bump) Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week. Tip your waitresses.

you should rosin up the bow first lio, it will fly smoother

Now, Now, Lio, violins never solved anything….

Jeez, you’d think he’d NEVER heard, ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ played on a violin before.

How come Lio is bowing with his right hand but shooting the bow with his left?

This made a music teacher’s day. Thanks, Mark! :)

(And thanks MisngNOLA too - LOL!)

Been there, tempted to do that… with drumsticks and rubberbands.

Just be glad he wasn’t teaching piano…!

It’d be an ACME-(road-runner/wile-e-coyote) moment

digital: hehehe, good one

and bubujin_2, Lio is just ambowdextrous

And now for Lio’s interpretation of the William Tell Overture…

DigitalFrog

Good one!

the violin had another use? i dunno.

bubujin_2

Haven’t we established Lio is a southpaw? Sometimes it’s less stressful to “do it your way.”

(I know it gives me an excuse for being such a bad guitar player!)

Comic characters, traditionally, are not “righties” or “lefties”…they use the hand that best fits the situation or illustration. That’s the great thing about comics…they are not restrained by the normal stuff we are…although readers will always try to project their own physical shortcomings on their favorite comic characters. But comic characters aren’t real people…they just play them in their strips.

“Physical shortcomings?” Them’s fightin’ words Mark! :O)