{"id":1223,"date":"2008-12-11T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T20:20:24","slug":"comic-strip-the-5-royales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Comic Strip: The “5” Royales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a one-pager I did for fall’s issue of Signal to Noise magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 I posted some bits and pieces of this a while back when it was in-process, but now that the new issue on the stands<\/a> here’s the entire strip.<\/p>\n

The stirp is an introduction to the ’50s soul\/R&B band, The “5” Royales, who hail from right here in Winston-Salem.\u00a0 The Royales aren’t a household name by any stretch, but they should<\/em> be to anyone who’s interested in modern music.\u00a0 The Royales’ influence runs via two conduits: first, James Brown pretty much modeled his first band, The Famous Flames on the Royales’ sound and in fact scored an early hit with the Royales-penned tune “Think.”\u00a0 Second, the playing of the Royales’ guitarist, Lowman Pualing, was very innovative for the time and was emulated by Steve Cropper (among others) who was a founding member of the Stax Records house band, Booker T & the MGs, and provided guitar on tracks by folks like Wilson Picket and Otis Redding.<\/p>\n

An interesting aside here is that this is a job I did mainly because I thought it’d be fun.\u00a0 I hope I’m not bursting any idealistic young freelancers’ bubbles here, but smaller specialty magazines don’t tend to have the budgets of, say, The New Yorker<\/em>, but sometimes–as in this case–the opportunity to do something really fun and interesting outweighs monetary considerations.\u00a0 I this case, though, I managed to have my cake and eat it too.\u00a0 The original art for this was displayed at a gallery show here in Winston<\/a>–and sold!<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s the strip–enjoy:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a one-pager I did for fall’s issue of Signal to Noise magazine.\u00a0 I posted some bits and pieces of this a while back when it was in-process, but now that the new issue on the stands here’s the entire strip. The stirp is an introduction to the ’50s soul\/R&B band, The “5” Royales, who … <\/p>\n

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