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Graham Isn't Creepy At All Ren: Why do you always sit up here, Graham? It isn't optimal for sound! / Graham: No, but here I can watch the musicians. I can see every little move and twitch... / {{(He's always watching...)}}
Apostrophe My Hobby: / Leaving the apostrophe in front of " 'cello" to make people think I am pretentious. / Ren: The 'cello is so sexy! / Person: The apostrophe makes it THAT MUCH MORE SO. / Bassoonist: What about the 'soon? / {{Sadly, it is impossible to make the bassoon sexy.}}
Goldilocks Ren: This reed is too hard! / <> / Ren: This reed is too easy! / <> / <> / Ren: This reed is just right! / <> / <> / > / Ren: Augh! / {{And then, to top it off, the bears come home and eat me.}}
Edwin Outwater 2 <> / CLICK / Ren and Moy: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! / Lora: Ah! / Lora: What are you doing? / Ren: Hiding from Edwin Outwater. / Lora: Why? / Moy: We're scared. / Lora: I don't understand why you two would be scared. / Ren: Moy and I get freaked out knowing professionals read our...
Request Nate: Can you make me a character? I want to be in a comic or something! / Moy: No. / Nate: Please? / Moy: No. / Nate: Oh come on! You draw people all the time! Why can't you just draw me?! PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?...
 
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Middle of the Night… [[Dick is lying in bed. On his nightstand is a can lamp, a can pen, and a phone made of cane. Oh! and glasses and a clock.]] / phone made of cane: <> / phone made of cane (Jim): <> / Dick: Yeah, Jim, that's fine. / [[Dick falls back to sleep and drops the phone...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Pets narrator: This is Ren's dog, Carl. / Carl: Orff! Orff! / narrator: This is Ren's cat, Darius. / Darius: Milhaud. / narrator: This is Ren's chicken, Johann Sebastion. / Johann Sebastion: Bach! Bach! Bach! / narrator: This is Ren's Parrot, Nikolai. / Nikolai: Rimsky-Korsokov? / {{title text: This is Ren's umbrella,...
Buttercup Festival Tribute Ren: What are you doing with that rock? / Buttercup Festival Guy: Making a reed. / Ren: That will never work. Rocks don't vibrate easily. / Buttercup Festival Guy: This one will. * scrape* / Ren: How? / Buttercup Festival Guy: With the POWER of LOVE. * scrape* / Buttercup Festival Guy: *FWEET* / {{Doodly...
XKCD Tribute Asshole: You've been blowing faggots for years! / Asshole: Oh, you LIKE playing with long, hard instruments, don't you. / Asshole: don't you guys get it? It's funny...You get it, right? / Bassoonists: Yeah, we get it. / Asshole: No you don't! You're not laughing. It's funny! “Faggot”, you know, like...
Toothpaste for Dinner Tribute Toothpaste for Dinner guy: someday i am going to play oboe in a doom metal band! an idea no one has thought of but me. / {{There is totally a guy in Sigur Rós who plays oboe sometimes. Do they count as metal?}}
 
SMBC Tribute Father: You are going to be a carpenter! You are NOT going to be an oboist! Oboes are for PANSIES! / But I'll still spend my days covered in shavings! / {{I have the bad habit of brushing shavings off my knife onto my sleeve. Even when I’m wearing short sleeves. Which I proceed to forget about and...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Nathan Poo 2 Nathan: Dear scary, obsessive, Oboehemia fans, I just wanted to point out that I did NOT beg Moy to draw me. I asked politely. She said yes. Got it? Got it Moy? Hmph. / [[big lump of poo with flies swarming around and an arrow labeling it "NATHAN BASSOON"]] / Nathan/poo: I hate you. I hate you so...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Success - Erin Brophey and Dick Dorsey Erin: My audition went terribly... / Dick: Did you throw up? / Erin: Well, no... / Dick: SUCCESS!! / {{I've got nothing...}}
In the University Forgery... Julie: Oh yeah, I forged this mouthpiece just yesterday. It could use a little more out of the edges, but it sounds okay. / Graham: You FORGE your mouthpieces? / Graham: Guys, did you know Julie forges her own mouthpieces? Isn't that CRAZY? / Heather: You know she's kidding, right? / Graham: She was? / Heather:...
Serial Composers Fleeting thought: / Sometimes I can't control what my brain hears. / Professor: Today we're going to talk about serial composers like Schoenberg and Babbitt. / Ren's thought-bubble: Coming soon—Messiaen O's! Also cereal! / CEREAL COMPOSERS! / Essential vitamins and retrograde canons! / Chock full of 12-tone...
 
Obohemia » Blog Archive » The Charge Bach wrote 6 oboe concertos. / They were lost. / Shortly thereafter, 6 violin concertos were "found." / Beethoven wrote an oboe concerto. / It was lost. / But, lo and behold, there appeared a violin concerto. / Tchaikovsky wrote an oboe concerto. / It, too, was lost. / Guess what we have, though? A violin...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, and Why I’m Confused Many of you know about the election in Canada, coming up on Tuesday. I’m confused about who to vote for! Do I vote wisely against the Conservative government–that would mean voting Liberal because they have the best chance of beating the Conservatives–or do I vote for the candidate I want to in my riding–that...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Handel Was a Badass Handel would've preferred the modern oboe. He'd have been all "Throw those Baroque oboes into the SEA." / {{title text: Why can I only hear Handel speaking like he is from the street, yo?}}
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Washington McClain To quote one of my favourite bloggers and composers, Nico Muhly, “I am the worst blogger in the world! I have been remiss. I have been absentee.” / And I am sorry. Hopefully there will be new and exciting comics in the days to come, but lately I have been feeling singularly unmotivated–about everything....
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Insignificant Details Person: What's wrong? / Oboist: I got a "you're not living up to your potential" talk from Jim in my lesson today. / Oboist: Now I'm feeling depressed. / Oboist: And, I mean, I'm making pretty good reeds, it's just my playing that's not going well. / Person: A tiny, insignificant detail. / {{What...
 
Obohemia » Blog Archive » My Peeps! Shout out? / My reeds have been going really well recently! I made 6 blanks earlier this week, and *four* of them turned out well! I am psyched, guys. Good reeds mean that I actually enjoy practicing, and enjoying practicing means that I will actually practice, and that my actual practice will sink...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Oh man! I have been a bad blogger/comicker. So bad. So lazy. So…running out of ideas. Had a crazy oboe experience? Tell me! I’ll probably turn it into a comic. Someone say something in your lesson which amused you? Tell me! I might turn it into a comic. Come up with a terrible pun about double reeds or music...
Obohemia » Blog Archive » Oboesexual [[Figure]] Doesn't it suck having your boyfriend live so far away? / [[Figure holding oboe]] Not when you've got an oboe like mine? / {{Title text: My oboe can't hold me tight}}
OBOE BAND OBÖE BAND / Monday, April 7, 8 PM / Room 318 / [[Everyone looks hardcore]] / {{BE THERE}}
Vibrato Lesson 3: VIBRATO / Dick: Try pulsing once every 4 beats. / Dick: Now twice every 4 beats. / Dick: Now 4 times every... / Dick: Now 8...and practice on your own. / 8 pulses / 16 pulses / 9 pulses / 7 pulses / 13 1/2 pulses / Dick: Why does your vibrato sound like "Shave and a Haircut"? / {{Not quite...
 
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Smoking Reed Ren: Hey Lora! / Lora: What? / Ren: Don't smoke reed! / Lora: ... / Bad pun ninja: *swoop* / {{The Bad Pun Ninja strikes again!}}
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