Sunday, June 10, 2012

Roger Calico Bunny! The Assonance Song.

Hi

Here is a song I wrote about Roger C. Bunny. 

My wife named him.  I suggested that Calico be his middle name. 

I always thought that Roger was a peculiar name for a bunny.  It was only weeks later that I realized that my wife never intended his name to be Roger Bunny.  The name she had in mind was Roger Rabbit.  I'm can be a bit vacuous sometimes....

Anyway, Roger C. Bunny became his permanent name mostly to remind me of how I sometimes miss the point.

Assonance is when you rhyme the vowel sounds but not the consonants.  Assonance was given some notoriety in the film "Educating Rita" when the title character described it as "getting the rhyme wrong".

Here is the Assonance Song:

Roger C. Bunny
He likes your tummy
He thinks your nice
And he know what he likes
He thinks your fun
And he has cotton on his bum
Cotton on his bum

Have a good day.

Joao

PS: you can see Max in the background of the picture.  He's pushing buttons on the DVD player again.












Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Metropolis - Chapter 17

In this chapter we learn the dangers of not properly grounding yourself during computer repairs.




Download the FYOC version here.








Have a good day.

Joao

Sunday, June 3, 2012

I can finally keep up on Prince Valiant!

Creating my Metropolis comic has reignited my interest in comic strips.  (Metropolis is modeled after the Sunday adventure comic strip format). Unfortunately newspapers are becoming rare and newspapers with comics rarer still.

And if you are a fan of Prince Valiant, The Phantom, Spider-Man (the comic strip version) and Flash Gordon, then you've probably been on the search for where you can read them on-line.  A very frustrating search. 

If you own an Apple product you can shell out $20 for a subscription for an app called DailyINK.  That will give you access to all of King Feature's strips for 1 year.  I'm only interested in about 3 or 4 of their 60 strips, so I didn't do that.

Fortunately, you can get access to about 1 month's worth of all the strips at a website called http://www.oregonlive.com/comics/.

Now I can keep up on all my adventure strips on-line.  I hope you enjoy them too.

Joao