The Grumbler

Posted by leslie (Leslie vonHolten) on January 23, 2007 at 1:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I love these comics.

Posted by trainyardzero (anonymous) on January 24, 2007 at 6:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

nice

Posted by TheEleventhStephanie (anonymous) on January 24, 2007 at 5:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hahah, looks like Bike Riding Joe! Awesome!

Posted by dolores2175 (April Fleming) on January 24, 2007 at 6:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Keep doing these!

Posted by Compy (anonymous) on January 24, 2007 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

i think that guy has problems

Posted by TheEleventhStephanie (anonymous) on January 24, 2007 at 9:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yeah, don't we all? Cool comic though!

Posted by thetomdotdot (anonymous) on January 25, 2007 at 7:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I bet he's listening to Satriani.

Posted by mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) on January 25, 2007 at 9:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Indeed. These comics are really awesome--keep them coming. Please? (Look at that. You made me be all polite and shit.)

Posted by reeveso (John Reeves) on January 27, 2007 at 2 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Who shares a house with the grumbler? Or is that the grumbler daydreaming about his voyeur?

Posted by thirtyeight (Dave Loewenstein) on January 27, 2007 at 5:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

reeveso - the last panel is based on a memory from about fifteen
years ago, when my girlfriend at the time and I lived next door to
Joe, and heard him singing along to an old Beatles record.

Posted by leslie (Leslie vonHolten) on January 27, 2007 at 5:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Did he have Wilbur the cat then? Wilbur would escape, and for blocks you could hear Joe searching, in droll Joe style: "Wiiiillllllbuuurrrrr. Wiiillllbuuuuurrrr."

Posted by thirtyeight (Dave Loewenstein) on January 27, 2007 at 6:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

leslie- oh yeah, but it was more like "Wuurrrrrbuurrrrrrrr..."

Posted by hhibp107 (anonymous) on January 28, 2007 at 5:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

i know the main character is real. but is the strip ? or is it just the author's idea of what the grubler might be doing? ive never seen him begging. just do the man justice. i wonder if he knows he has a comic strip. sounds like cash money in his pocket. and mine. Law school continues to pay off...

Posted by godjilla (Jill Ensley) on January 29, 2007 at 2:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

grubler?

I'm just going to trail you and correct your spelling mistakes from now on. Just think of me as your personal spell-check.

Posted by godjilla (Jill Ensley) on January 29, 2007 at 2:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Dave, I love your work, style, composition, feeling....but I was thinking, ever since you've started posting these comic pieces there's been something missing. I think they need to be longer, maybe one more panel? The flow is weird, choppy, takes awhile to read what's really going on/being said.

I'm trying this new thing where I try and be honest with fellow artists. I hope it doesn't come off as condescending.

Posted by lori (anonymous) on January 29, 2007 at 9:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

One thought--I never see Bicycle Joe riding the same bike twice. I always wonder where he and Dennis get all the different bikes.

Posted by thirtyeight (Dave Loewenstein) on January 29, 2007 at 1:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

jill- thanks for the comment (I do appreciate honest feedback). I'm still trying to figure out how to do these. Stay tuned, I think the narratives in newer ones are a little stronger.

Posted by derald (anonymous) on February 3, 2007 at 8:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

"begging" ? all we see is a man and a girl and us reacting to a man holding a cup of coffee

Posted by godjilla (Jill Ensley) on February 3, 2007 at 11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I do love your shading/tones and line work. Can't wait to see the next one. :)