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| Awkward | [[Two oboists are at a Double Reed Con]]
/ Oboist 1: I'm an oboist.
/ Oboist 2: Me too.
/ Oboist 1: Student at Fridonia.
/ Oboist 2: I'm at Laurier. / [[Awkward moment]] / [[Another awkward moment]] / Oboist 1: You know what's awkward? Burping into your oboe.
/ Oboist 2: I know, right? / {{I KNOW, RI... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=437 |
| Michael Sweeney | Adam: Michael Sweeney played on that recording.
/ Megan: Michael Sweeney...I've heard he has small reeds.
/ Adam: Well, you know what they say about small reeds... / {{No, what? Small shapes?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=440 |
| My Fair Lady | Eliza Doolittle: The cane in Spain grows mainly in the plain.
/ Henry Higgins: I think she's got it! I think she's got it! / {{Everything is funnier if you ask, "What if an oboist had written that?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=442 |
| Air Oboe | Jim: I want the dynamics the opposite of what is written. You're going to crescendo going down the scale.
/ vroooOOOOOOOM
/ Like a plane, taking off! / Jim: I am so professional. / {{You enjoyed making the plane sounds, Jim. Don't deny it.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=444 |
| A Late Welcome. | Aimee - Year 1 / Aimee: .... / Aimee: (I seem to be in a cartoon.) / Aimee: (I must be in an oboe comic.) / Aimee: (Stay calm...stay calm...stay...) / [[Aimee collapses on the ground]] / [[Dani arrives and looks down at her.]] / Dani - Year 1
/ Dani: Well, I'm going to shoot up now.
/ Aimee: .... / {{4... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=447 |
| Contra | Megan: Here's your part for the Grainger, Nate. / [[Nate is perplexed, as the part reads "Double Bassoon".]] / [[Nate shows up to rehearsal with two bassoons.]]
/ Andrew: You know it means contrabassoon, right? / {{Contrabassoons make me *incredibly* happy.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=449 |
| This or That | Is it...
/ An oboist
/ or
/ A bassoonist? / Is it....
/ A double reed tool
/ or
/ A French Medieval Torture Apparatus?
/ (or both? / Is it...
/ The sound of a half-scraped reed being crowed
/ or
/ A broken penny whistle
/ or
/ Five people making strangled cries at the same time, non of which occur in a diatonic... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=452 |
| Patty! | patioboe (10:28:08 PM): Well, I have my motto, of course: learn to play well on bad reeds. There ya go! :-) / renegadeoboe (10:29:07 PM): It's perfect! Now just to deal with the "playing the oboe" part.
/ patioboe (10:31: 57 PM): Sometimes I think it helps, too, to think more about the air and less about... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=454 |
| Dudu Carmel Masterclass | Dudu: I want you to kiss your reed.
/ Heather: You want me to stick my tongue down my reed? / Dudu: FIRST date. / {{ ;) }} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=457 |
| Must Obey | Prof: Can anyone tell me why the orchestra tunes to 'A'? / Moy: Because the OBOE WILLS IT! / {{Mwahaha! All bow down before the oboist, or I shall tune you flat!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=463 |
| From Beyond the Grave | Moy: So, I almost died today, saving my oboe. I knew being an oboist was high maintenance, but really, KNIVES were involved! / Ren: Wow. Well, Moy, what good is an oboe when you're dead?
/ Moy: Well, I told Jim that if I died, he could have my oboe--- / [[Moy's oboe is gone.]] / Moy: Ren, you told... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=465 |
| Old Reeds and Hot Makeouts | Person 1: I've sat in a chair George Washington sat in.
/ Person 2: I've worn one of Wayne Gretzky's jerseys!
/ Ren: I've played on reeds Dick Woodhams, John DeLancie, and Marcel Tabuteau MADE! / Person 1: Um. Didn't our old music teacher say that sharing reeds was like making out?
/ Person 2: I think... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=468 |
| Wind Machine | Moy: Ooo! We're getting a wind machine? / Moy: Of course...only a machine can harness such a power, for it is too pure for humans. If I could control this device... / Moy: I could rule the world! All who oppose me will fall! Mother Nature herself will bow down before ME! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! / Wind Machine:... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=479 |
| That's Vibrat-OH | Moy: Then I auditioned at Laurier. It didn't go so well; I think I got in because of my vibrato.
/ Moy's friend: Vibrato? Do I even want to know what that is? / Moy's friend: At least tell me you don't...insert it anywhere in your person. / {{And you got into SCHOOL because of it?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=481 |
| Formal Analysis | PERIOD
/ Antecedent Phrase Consequent Phrase
/ Basic Idea /Contrasting Idea Basic Idea/ Cadential Idea
/ Half Cadence Perfect Authentic Cadence / SENTENCE
/ Presentation Phrase Continuation Phrase
/ Basic Idea/Basic Idea Fragment/Fragment/Cadential Idea
/ Perfect Authentic Cadence / OBOE
/ Rehearsal... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=483 |
| Eboe | Ren: I just can't get used to playing that in 5/2! My reeds just aren't working out for me, and I need to regrind my knife. I sound like crap! Why am I even in MUSIC, sometimes I just don't know... / Ren: I need to stop being so emo.
/ Heather: You're not emo. You're oboe. / {{I may have to make a t-shirt... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=486 |
| Graphing the Mean | Graph illustrating Quality of reed, Imagined Ability to Fly, and Mastery of the English Language as a function of Time in the Oboe Studio Making Reeds (in hours) / {{Whatever you do, *never* spend 24 hours straight making reeds. *Ever*.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=488 |
| Mineral Oil | [[Dani walks up to counter with her arms full.]] / [[Dani drops her armload on the counter, revealing several different types of mineral oil]] / [[The cashier looks shocked.]] / Cashier: I'm so sorry. / {{For those who don't get it, Mineral Oil is commonly used as a laxative, not just for sharpening... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=490 |
| Giggle | [[Out-of-panel giggling]] / [[Further out-of-panel giggling]] / Moy: *giggle* / Ren: You know, if I didn't know that she's watching Stargate, I'd be really creeped out right about now. / {{DAMN how I love SG-1!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=492 |
| If I Fall, Catch My Oboe. | OBOE
/ Rehearsal Phase Performance Phase
/ Good Idea/Bad Idea Panic/Panic/Panic/Cadence
/ [[images depict Moy in all phases, and keeling over in the last one, an oboe catcher nearby.]] / {{Don't worry, someone caught it.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=496 |
| Fearful Performance. | Ren: *nervous vibrato* / Jim: I can *hear* your *fear*. / {{Can you hear my fear?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=500 |
| Standing on the Dominant | Punting the Mediant / Standing on the Dominant / Poking the Submediant / Sitting on the Subdominant / Stealing the Leading Note / Expanding the Tonic / Bombing the Supertonic / {{This is me, bored in Theory.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=504 |
| Fleeting Thought | Have you ever noticed that the upside-down dotted eighth/sixteenth figure looks like a face? / {{You'll see them like that forever, now.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=507 |
| Lesson | Jim: You need to exhale when you play. / Jim: Because if you don't, the air will just keep building up and building up-- / Jim: --until you EXPLODE! / Jim: And then there would be guts and stuff all over the place. And then I'd have to clean it all up...I don't want that. / {{'She essploded jus'... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=510 |
| Oboe Feather | [[Ren leaps for feather]] / < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=512 |
| Bhosys | Dick: I found one kind of knife that I just fell in love with. And I thought the guy was going to die, so I just kept buying them.
/ Justin: How many do you have now?
/ Dick: Oh, 180 or so.
/ Justin: ...
/ Dick: I'm a sick, sick man. / {"At least I don't have twenty gougers!} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=516 |
| Feathers pt 2 | Super Ren: Wow! That was one hard sonata! / Mushroom-guy: I'm sorry, Ren, but the reed you seek is in another castle. / [[Mushroom-guy looks innocent]] / Ren: I'm switching back to a swab. / {{The epic battle was the sonata.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=518 |
| Herpes | Jim: Let me try your reed. Are you healthy?
/ Heather: Yeah, I just have a few cankers. / LATER
/ Jim: Are you sure your cankers aren't herpes?
/ Heather: Of course not...at least I don't think so... / PANIC
/ Heather (on the phone, looking at the Wikipedia on Herpes): Are you SURE Mom? / Jim: Oh, it... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=520 |
| Learning to Ride High | Jim: How do you learn to play your high notes well? It's like asking how to learn to ride a bike. You sit on the bike and pedal. You just do it.
/ Lora: Can we have training wheels? / {{If you're going to use analogies, Jim, make sure there are no loopholes. We *will* find them.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=522 |
| Fan Mail pt 2 | Psycopath Bassoonist: Hi there, is this Obohemia?
/ Moy: Oh no... / <<*dance music*>>
/ [[some of the clothing formerly worn by crazy bassoonist is seen flying in the air. Ren and Moys faces show varied levels of disgust.]] / [[Moy is writing a letter angrily. Ren is shaking in the far corner]]
/ Moy:... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=525 |
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