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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...)}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=598 |
| 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.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=600 |
| Goldilocks | Ren: This reed is too hard! / < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=602 |
| Edwin Outwater 2 | < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=606 |
| 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?... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=621 |
| 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: < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=623 |
| 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,... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=625 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=673 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=675 |
| 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?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=677 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=681 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=683 |
| 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...}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=685 |
| 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:... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=693 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=695 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=775 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=787 |
| 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?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=808 |
| 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.... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=813 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=827 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=828 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=831 |
| 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}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=841 |
| OBOE BAND | OBÖE BAND
/ Monday, April 7, 8 PM
/ Room 318
/ [[Everyone looks hardcore]] / {{BE THERE}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=638#comment-914 |
| 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... http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/13/vibrato/ |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/15/the-fire-department-must-never-know/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/15/the-fire-department-must-never-know/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Smoking Reed | Ren: Hey Lora!
/ Lora: What? / Ren: Don't smoke reed!
/ Lora: ... / Bad pun ninja: *swoop* / {{The Bad Pun Ninja strikes again!}} http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/17/smoking-reed/ |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/20/shawms/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/20/shawms/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/22/reed-destruction/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/22/reed-destruction/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/29/that-dude-is-a-killer-oboist/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/29/that-dude-is-a-killer-oboist/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
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