Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble comic strip mentions The Waybacks and Jerry Garcia today.
I’ve met Roy a couple of times at the Suwannee SpringFest and MagnoliaFest. He’s a musician himself, and he’s used the Suwannee fests (with a different name) as a setting a couple of times.
I don’t get the strip out here in the Bay Area, but I read it online.
Ha! I got my toes done when I went to my sister’s wedding in Texas a couple of years ago. It was disturbingly pleasant!
Robert )))
Hey David!
Thanks for the mention. Stevie Coyle owns the original art from that strip. We’ve actually hit off a pretty nice friendship as a result.
The “Squirrelfest” series will start running sometime in June, I believe. See, since the strip got picked up for print syndication, they’ve re-run most of the web-only strips from the previous year, which allowed me to get a very nice head start on deadlines. Very handy, as I’ve been very busy writing songs and recording in the studio as well.
Being such a music nut, I plan to incorporate more and more music references into the strip as time goes on. Hoping to make it The Musician’s Comic Strip someday, if some more papers would take a look at it and pick it up.
Bug your papers! Bug ’em! It works!
(Thanks again Dave, it was great seeing you again at Suwannee)
I’m glad things are going well for you, Roy!
What do we say to papers when we ask for The Humble Stumble? Who’s your distributor?
You can tell ’em you saw this unbelievably wonderful comic (wherever you saw it, in this case on comics.com) and think they oughtta’ run it or they’re crazy. Hee hee… It’s with United Media.
Thanks again for the plug!
Just thought I’d pop in again and mention that another music-show-related storyline is currently running in the strip, involving a road trip in a ’66 VW bus to the fictitious “Squirrelfest,” highly inspired by my experience as a songwriting finalist at the 2005 Suwannee SpringFest. If you look carefully in the panels, there are subtle visual hints at some of my faves from those fests, including Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall and Darol Anger, among others.
Better not turn yer back, Mr. Gans… You’re next.