{"id":917,"date":"2017-05-22T18:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=917"},"modified":"2019-01-31T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:21:41","slug":"snubdom-blog-boredom-abolishing-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"SNUBDOMIZER: &#8220;Boredom Abolishing&#8221; (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><br \/>\t<\/style>\n<p>As much as getting published in the high school paper was thrilling (the first person to ever publish my comix was its editor <em>Brian Topp<\/em>; runner-up for the federal leadership of the <em>NDP<\/em> in 2012), by the time I was being flung out into \u201cthe real world\u201d I knew&nbsp;I needed a new gig! And Montreal&#8217;s premiere scene-report punk mag <em>Surfin&#8217; Bird<\/em> was loose enough to run my crap! I did a comic for their second issue about jerking off to <em>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/em> &amp; then submitted this drug-addled stream-of-consciousness one for their third &amp; final! The title <em>\u201cBoredom Abolishing\u201d<\/em> was also the name of a song by my first punk band <em>The Electric Vomit<\/em> &amp; on the second page you can tell I was starting to grow outta <em>The Sex Pistols<\/em> &amp; becoming obsessed with <em>No Wave<\/em> by declaring my fandom for <em>The Contortions<\/em>! \u201cNormality is an illusion, for teenagers it&#8217;s confusion\u201d was a lyric from <em>Boredom Abolishing<\/em>. Gee, can you tell I was still a teenager when I drew this?&nbsp;(To see the pages full-sized, click on them to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-918 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01-787x1024.jpg 787w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01-768x1000.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-922 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02-793x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02-793x1024.jpg 793w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02-768x992.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/surfin_bird_no3_rick_trembles_comic_02.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as getting published in the high school paper was thrilling (the first person to ever publish my comix was its editor Brian Topp; runner-up for the federal leadership of the NDP in 2012), by the time I was being flung out into \u201cthe real world\u201d I knew&nbsp;I needed a new gig! 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