Best bike racing comic?

[email hidden] (Jeff Potter) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Has there ever been a better bike racing comicbook than "CAT 3"?

Ken Benusis (of one of the Dakotas) made several of these wonderful
things in the early 90's. They captured all the wackiness, quirks,
lore-fetishism and forever-repeating stereotypes that is bike racing.
Some strips had titles like: "Who was that guy?" or "He came from
nowhere!" and the profiles of the members of The Club were hilarious.
The art production values were also totally cutting edge. I haven't
seen better even in regular comics. Benusis is still a dentist and
still races Masters in some crazed flatland club with a crazed name,
oh yeah: the Black Hills Domestiques.
I'm thinking of contacting him to see if he has backissues I could
help him sell.

Anyway, are there any good comics out there these days?

What about that teenager wannabe, Max Cash Agro, Esq.?
I think he has like 4 fans.

Real cycling comics? Patrick O'Grady?!
OLD GUYS who drink a lot beer and GET FAT IN THE WINTER.

-Ken

[email hidden] (Jeff Potter) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Anyway, are there any good comics out there these days?

http://www.bikecafe.net/content/quickshot.asp

Chad Nikolz is a great guy and a talented artist (and a really strong
CAT1). He's just getting started, but I always like to check his
stuff.

-a

(Jeff Potter) said:

Has there ever been a better bike racing comicbook than "CAT 3"?

Some people call the British magazine _Cycling Weekly_ "The Comic."

JT

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Bill Cass, from New Bedford, did some good work for VeloSnooze around the
time O'Grady joined them.

-Chris Mitchell

On 11/01/2004 08:22 PM, in article M3Dhd.452841$mD.296828@attbi_s02, "Chris

Mitchell said:

Bill Cass, from New Bedford, did some good work for VeloSnooze around the
time O'Grady joined them.

I dig the Mud Stud (in Bicycle Retailer, by PO'G).

I think O'Grady should do an entire graphic novel based around the Stud's
adventures, like wrenching at the Tour de France.

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Steven L. Sheffield said:

On 11/01/2004 08:22 PM, in article M3Dhd.452841$mD.296828@attbi_s02, "Chris

Mitchell said:

Bill Cass, from New Bedford, did some good work for VeloSnooze around the
time O'Grady joined them.

I dig the Mud Stud (in Bicycle Retailer, by PO'G).

I think O'Grady should do an entire graphic novel based around the Stud's
adventures, like wrenching at the Tour de France.

Where does one get a look at these bike comics? I hadn't looked at the
thread b/c I thought, well, youse guys were joking!

-B

In article <[email hidden]>, "Steven L. Sheffield"

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I dig the Mud Stud (in Bicycle Retailer, by PO'G).

I think O'Grady should do an entire graphic novel based around the Stud's
adventures, like wrenching at the Tour de France.

Thanks, Steven,

I pitched the idea of a Mud Stud collection to the VeloPress folks some
time back, but never got them interested, perhaps because of the Bicycle
Retailer & Industry News connection. But I like your idea about a graphic
novel/comic boook ... I was a big fan of the underground comics of the
Sixties and Seventies (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, et.al) and doodled a
couple of knockoffs back in the day. It was a lot of fun, 'cause you
weren't limited to a couple of panels for setup and a punch line. Maybe
I'll take a stab at your notion during the off-season, 'cause I like The
Stud much more than the editorial-style 'toons I do for VeloNews.

Meanwhile, they're not exactly bike-racing comics, but my personal faves
are "Frazz" by Jef Mallett (starring the triathlon-racing, music-writing
elementary-school janitor) and the classic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill
Watterson, which featured a long-suffering cycling dad and a vicious bike
that had a thing for kicking Calvin's ass).

Other solid cycling artists are Bill Cass, who we don't see much of any
more (though he's done a few Ride for the Roses posters, IIRC) and David
Brinton, a.k.a. "Brintoni," who has illustrated a ton of "At the Back"
columns in VeloNews. The detail the dude gets into his art is amazing.

Cheers,

Patrick O'Grady
Mad Dog Media
http://www.maddogmedia.com

Folks - I'd recommend you check out Bill Oterson's bicycling comics.
His work is beloved in Tallahassee, Fl. You can find it at:

http://www.stupidstudio.com/files/bikecartoon.html

Here's one of my all time favs:

http://www.stupidstudio.com/files/level2/bikefiles/greatday.html

*Vote for Pedro* said:

Folks - I'd recommend you check out Bill Oterson's bicycling comics.
His work is beloved in Tallahassee, Fl. You can find it at:

http://www.stupidstudio.com/files/bikecartoon.html

Here's one of my all time favs:

http://www.stupidstudio.com/files/level2/bikefiles/greatday.html

No pictures, but close enough:
http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/spike.html

I gather no one here has seen/read Cat 3?

Whoa, dudes, you've missed out.

I need to see if I can buy a stash of em from the old man. Then mark
em up and sell em to you fools. You'll pee yourself laffing even after
shelling out.

There was also a No-Cal bike comic for a few years. It was OK. It ran
a half dozen or so multipage strips. Nuthin like Cat 3, tho.

--JP