Billy Joel and his band are getting insanely stoned on stage after a concert. They’re surrounded by instruments and lots and lots of bongs. Billy sprawls on his piano bench and says: “But, like, what if we did start the fire?”
I know that’s two cartoons about song lyrics this week but I can’t help myself.
In re yesterday’s Ivanhoe comic: Ann Hodgman, who is always the smartest person in the room, liked the Olde English touch of Isaac the Money Lender saying he lived in “Sheffield Town.” Sheffield — that could be anywhere. Sheffield Town? Now we’re talking some Robin Hood shit.
Nimble Billy Kimball notes that the name “Cedric” was accidentally invented by Sir Walter Scott when writing Ivanhoe; he was actually trying to write the actual, old-school name of “Cerdic.” This is trivia you won’t find anywhere else.
No new comics from you. So here is “Streamline,” another British comic book.
What I like about Streamline — besides the cool amateur-style (I assume all the real artists were fighting Hitler) — is that the first thing he does, after getting his powers, is get a “skin tight uniform.” I wonder where he got it?
Come back next week. More comics you can draw (but never do, it seems). Please draw these, I can’t.