{"id":2532,"date":"2010-11-18T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2010-11-29T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T02:30:08","slug":"one-page-comic-strip-history-of-the-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"One-Page Comic Strip: History of the Ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally do one-page music-related comic strips for a music magazine called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signaltonoisemagazine.org\/\">Signal to Noise<\/a>. I enjoy doing work for them because I&#8217;m really interested in music and they give me a pretty free rein to choose a subject I like.\u00a0 For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1223\" target=\"_self\">one of my past strips<\/a> for them was about the obscure but very influential local Winston-Salem soul band, The &#8220;5&#8221; Royales, after whom James Brown patterned his first band.<\/p>\n<p>For the most recent issue (Fall 2010) I did a strip about the history of the ukulele. I&#8217;ve previously posted an in-progress (inked, I think?) version of this strip, but since the Fall issue&#8217;s been on the shelf for a good while, I guess I&#8217;m safe to post the final, colored version of the strip here.\u00a0 I enjoyed doing this strip a lot since I actually play (albeit, not very well) the ukulele. The song that the kind-of-but-not-exactly-me narrator is singing is the great &#8217;20s tune &#8220;I&#8217;ll See You in my Dreams.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m embarrassed by how terrible the caricatures are in this strip, but other than that I think it turned out reasonably well. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2533\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,1099\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stn_ukulele_1200\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200-204x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200-698x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2533\" title=\"stn_ukulele_1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stn_ukulele_1200.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally do one-page music-related comic strips for a music magazine called Signal to Noise. I enjoy doing work for them because I&#8217;m really interested in music and they give me a pretty free rein to choose a subject I like.\u00a0 For example, one of my past strips for them was about the obscure but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2532\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-EQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}