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| Vibrato | Lesson 3: Vibrato / Dick: Try pulsing once every four beats. / Dick: Now twice every four beats. / Dick: Now four times every... / Dick: Now eight...and practice on your own. / Student practices...8 pulses, 16 pulses, 9 pulses, 7 pulses, 13 1/2 pulses... / Dick: Why does your vibrato sound like... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=142 |
| Fortissimo^2 | The Studio and a Giant Oboe Take on Jim / Student: We'll show YOU a big sound!
/ Student (standing at the bell of the giant oboe): Ah, my ears!
/ Dick (swinging in on a ninja rope): Can I get 20% more? http://oboe-comics.com/?p=144 |
| Golf | "Oboe reeds are a lot like golf clubs; highly calibrated tools of the trade where the difference between world-class performance and embarassing disaster is measured in millimetres." - Donald Baker http://oboe-comics.com/?p=146 |
| Hot or Not? | NOT flute tuba saxophone trumpet trombone violin clarinet piano tambourine bass guitar french horn 'cello oboe maracas HOT / {{Note: this image subject to artist's bias.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=149 |
| Meg Ryan | CANE AND LEOPOLD
/ Reed: That was highly uncivilized! / FRENCH DISS
/ Reed: You're looking very European today. / COURAGE UNDER WIRE
/ Reed: You've got to leave me behind! / IN THE GOUGE
/ Reed: You know what your problem is? You're frigging soft. Frig this, you know, I was playing just fine before I... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=155 |
| Cycle of the Social Reedmaker | SUCK
/ Jim: That was terrible. / NO FRIENDS / NO ONE TO MAKE REEDS WITH
/ Student: I'm so alone. / DON'T MAKE REEDS
/ Student: Screw this! / DON'T HAVE REEDS / CAN'T PRACTICE
/ Student: Damn reeds! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=157 |
| Planting | Person 1: What would you have to plant to grow an oboe?
/ Person 2: Grenadilla and nickel, probably. / Person 3: Rosewood and silver, of course. / Ren: PAIN AND DESPAIR! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=161 |
| Rosewood and the Creamy Reed | You can't steal the rosewood without the reed! / Jim: Ahaha! It's mine! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=163 |
| Not Funny | Heather: What? / I'm not going to say anything funny. / Stop!! / ...I'm ignoring you now. / {{Yes you are!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=165 |
| Coffee Jim | Heather: Really? You like my reed? / Jim: No! The reed is horrible! But this coffee is GREAT! / {{Awww, poor Heather.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=167 |
| Double Reeds 101: Part One | Moy: Welcome to My Oboe Insanity! I'm Moy! / Moy: But let's just get one thing straight... / Moy: The OBOE is NOT the BASSOON!! / {{No, it's not a clarinet, either.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=169 |
| Double Reeds 101: Part Two | Moy: This is the English Horn! It is neither English...nor a Horn. / {{I *hate* it when people refer to all woodwinds as horns.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=171 |
| The Reed | Moy: The Oboe Reed. Yes, this tiny little hole is just a small representation of what we can do. The rest of the oboe is like our amplifier. But how are we able to get such a big sound that is expected of us if we can only put so little air through?
/ MAGIC.
/ However, there are some things that can't... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=173 |
| Daniel vs. Oboe | Ren: If you had to choose between Daniel Jackson and the oboe, what would you choose?
/ Moy: the oboe, of course! So I can lure Daniel *back* into my bed! That way I can have both! / Ren: You've thought about this, haven't you? / {{I love my expression in the second panel.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=175 |
| Ren is Scaring Me | [[MSN conversation window]]
/ Ren says: KRISTEN!
/ --Moy--(in the Loo!) says: Yes?
/ Ren says: WHERE'S MY COMIC?!
/ Ren says: *Grin*
/ --Moy--(In the Loo!) says: umm...I don't know if that grin is good or not.
/ --Moy--(In the Loo!) says: ...
/ --Moy--(In the Loo!) says: Please don't kill me.
/ Ren says: I... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=177 |
| I Am So Depressed Right Now | Greyhound Tickets to Toronto: $12.99 each way.
/ Day pass for the streetcar: $8.50
/ Total $ required to get spring replaced and rod straightened (and buy 2 new colours of thread which were just too pretty to resist): $84.99
/ Realizing that there is something completely different wrong with your oboe when... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=181 |
| Closing Ceremonies | Announcer: Presenting...Studio closing ceremonies 2007! GRAHAM has left the studio.
/ Lora: Whose pregouger can I use? / Announcer: JANE has left the studio.
/ Justin: Whose shoes will I trip over now?
/ Lora: Who will cover for me in orchestra?
/ Heather: Who will be my friend? / Announcer: JESS has left... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=183 |
| Talking 'Bout Our Oboes | Ren: My new knife is so fantastic! I can get it awesomely sharp, and so all of my reeds have super-thin tips; it's perfect for playing "La Scala", every note responds... / Person: I love it when you talk oboe. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=185 |
| Impedimoboe | Dick: The first time you pick up your albert in the morning... / Jess: We're missing the dates between February 28th and March 1st on this schedule! / Oboist: Can you pass me the thing?
/ Oboist 2: The blue one or the shiny one? / Lora: Graham is going backstage to look for Jim.
/ Ren: He's going to... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=189 |
| Oboe Jokes #3: Technically It's Called a Semitone | Person: What's the definition of a half step?
/ Ren: Well... / Person: Two oboes playing in unison! Two oboes playing in unison!
/ Ren: Oh, that. Only if one is a Baroque oboe and the other isn't. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=193 |
| Oboe Joke #4: They Just Don't Understand | Person 1: How many oboists does it take to change a lightbulb?
/ Person 2: Only one, but they have to try at least twenty to find the right one.
/ Person 1: Crazy oboists.
/ Ren: None of them WORK! / {How many English Horn players does it take to change a lightbulb? Several, since they mostly mistake the... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=195 |
| The Renegade Oboe, Part II | Person: I'll be back in a year, I promise! / [[Ren sits on a swingset, playing her oboe to the lonely man on the swing]] / {{The Renegade Oboe is an agent of loneliness and lost love. She is also very precariously balanced.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=197 |
| Oboe Hero | [[Symphony onstage, ROCK meter in the green, coloured notes fly past]] / [[Ren plays Oboe Hero]]
/ Person: Use STAR POWER! / {{Oboe Hero is at least three point four times as intense as Guitar Hero.}} / Link at the bottom leads to RESULTS.
/ {{Take THAT Graham Mackenzie!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=203 |
| Qui-Gon Jim V | Jim: Esther, do you want to play first?
/ Ren: Do I?
/ Jim: Yes.
/ Ren: Okay. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=207 |
| Qui-Gon Jim VI | Jim: It takes a lot of pressure to play the oboe, to maintain the airstream. It's a force. Use the Force. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=209 |
| Knives | Ren: I've been finding that increasingly my mood depends on how sharp I can get my knives. If they're sharp, I'm happy. If they're not, don't cross me. / Ren: Kind of silly how my demeanor can depend on a millimetres-thick piece of metal.
/ Person: Oboists live life on the edge! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=211 |
| Alex Klein | Jim: I've convinced Alex Klein to come give a masterclass.
/ Moy: Excellent!
/ Ren: We can set our plan in motion. / [[Alex plays one of his famous low A's in a masterclass]] / [[The students inspect his reed and oboe with magnifying glasses]]
/ Ren: Find anything?
/ Heather: Nothing. / [[The students... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=213 |
| Alex Klein | Jim: I've convinced Alex Klein to come give a masterclass.
/ Moy: Excellent!
/ Ren: We can set our plan in motion. / [[Alex plays one of his famous low A's in a masterclass]] / [[The students inspect his reed and oboe with magnifying glasses]]
/ Ren: Find anything?
/ Heather: Nothing. / [[The students... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=213 |
| Excerpts | {"Listening to 'La Scala'?" "Nope. Miracle Fortress."} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=215 |
| Threshold of Pain | Face 1: We were learning about sound today.
/ Face 2: Oh? / Face 1: Yeah. Did you know the human ear has a huge dynamic capacity?
/ Face 2: Really. How huge? / Face 1: Well the softest sounds we can hear are at 0 dB, which is the Threshold of Hearing.
/ Face 2: What's the loudest dynamic called? / Face... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=222 |
| Reed Water | Kristen: *slurp*
/ Ren: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
/ Lora: She's drinking her reed water.
/ Ren: NOOOOO!
/ Lora: Clearly she didn't see what happened to Graham.
/ Graham: *slurp* *sproing* http://oboe-comics.com/?p=224 |
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