Leroy is Louie’s brother. Louie has a pointed head and Leroy’s is flat. I referred to him as a carrot top—not because his hair was red (which it wasn’t), but because the three hairs that grow from the center of his head reminded me of three stems of a carrot after the leaves have beenContinue reading Louie and Bruce Singles, 1982, Part 1 [comic strips]
In January of 1982, I drew an anthropomorphic character for the Louie and Bruce comic strip: Louie’s cat. I didn’t have a name for the stray alley cat Louie took in, so he was called “Louie’s cat.” Names that I kicked around were Barfield (a play on Garfield), Rowdy Dangerfield (because he thought he wasContinue reading Louie’s Cat Acts Up [comic strip]
It’s December 1981 and the sawmill I work at is shutting down for the winter. Life for Louie and Bruce and the gang goes on, though this is the last full-feature strip of them at the mill until 1983. No one does a better pratfall than Louie. But falling into a debarking machine isn’t myContinue reading Debarking Up the Wrong Tree [comic strip]
Welcome to another Louie and Bruce comic strip feature from 1981, never published at this website until now. The top 3 throwaway panels (see my last post about that) introduce and set up the problem, which carries through the strip to the end: Frank forgot his lunch. I was influenced by cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s earlyContinue reading Frank’s Lunch Break [comic strip]
I’m going to feature “old” artwork—mostly comics and other drawings from the 1980s and 90s—during November and December to close out the year. This is another Louie and Bruce comic page from 1981 that I’ve never featured here before. Like the one in my last post, I found this comic while I was going throughContinue reading Louie’s Problems [comic strip]
This Louie and Bruce comic page is from September 1981. I was 24 and married for ten months. I had big dreams back then and a bigger future in front of me. I found this comic and others like it while I went through old boxes during a search for decorations of Christmases past. TheContinue reading A Louie and Bruce Treasure Hunt [comic strip]
I began drawing comic strips when I was in high school. I mentioned The Klutz in my last post. I featured it in my notebooks, notes to friends, and on chalkboards when teachers weren’t around. The Burgess Bros. came next and became a common feature on many unattended chalkboards at my school. Fifi was aContinue reading Conroy’s Corner from the Archives [comic strip]
This archive features a tiny collection of my favorite Louie and Bruce comic strips that I drew many years ago. I began drawing comic strips when I was in high school, waaay back in the 1970s when dinosaurs still roamed the planet. The first serious strip I drew for teachers and classmates was The Klutz,Continue reading Louie and Bruce from the Archives [comic strip]
1982 was a time before cell phones as we know them now. Most of us were unable to afford the monstrosities at our local electronics store, so we settled for talking to friends on our CB radio in the car or waiting until we got home to use the house phone for the long distanceContinue reading Louie and Bruce – Before Cell Phones
Based on a true event, this is a been-there-done-that comic strip from my high school days and drawn later (1983), and features Bruce from my Louie and Bruce comic. Here I’ve exaggerated Bruce’s short height with the tall basketball players. There were always those taller, faster, more athletic kids at school who hogged the ballContinue reading Louie and Bruce – Basketball Blues
Retro Louie & Bruce from May 1982. Here, Frank and Bruce are inside the sawmill. We see them with Bruce’s old radio. Notice the cassette player. Mine was older; it had 8-track.
I recently discovered the following Louie and Bruce strips in storage. They were drawn in June 1982 and published five years later in a local newspaper, then put away as I went on to do other things. Each strip was drawn in blue pencil on a drawing panel, then inked with quills and brushes andContinue reading 3 Silly Louie and Bruce Panels
