So, a little explanation on today’s strip. I sat down to write a comic, and instead, I reached for the uke. I was thinking about the “Drew” character and how I’m not him. And how pieces of him, ARE me. How there’s this fire somewhere in his belly that just drives him, with maybe a dash of paranoia and an ounce fear, though he’d never show it….. and so I wrote a song for Drew…. see below strip for mp3s…. Plus, I wanted to be able to say “punch someone in the face” in a ukulele song. It felt appropriate.

I recorded the song for CLub members, because I was afraid to sing crappily in public. You can hear my version in the club section, because I’m still stage frought. Is frought a word? It would be the present tense of “fright”??? beats me. —- Then our good friend and reader, Eri, decided she’d take a crack at vocals, and I think she did a much better version, and she has fancier recording doodads than me, so the file size is really small too… Listen to it in all it’s glory. Give the girl some props!

- DREW’S SONG MP3 LINK

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I found a batch of these old Ukulele Comics from 1931 on ebay a while back, and have never heard anything about them. I tried researching the cartoonist “Carlton Williams” but nothing comes up. There’s a strong possibility that these are the only ones that were ever published. I also have a hunch that “Carlton Williams” is just a pen name. Many cartoonists of that day and age drew under several pen names in order to sell mulitple features to syndicates or make their “studio” seem like they had a staff of artists. Clever, eh?

Visit our UKE STORE PAGE.

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Hope you folks like the new site layout. I’ve added a STORE PAGE where I might sell custom UKE CLUB stuff, and there’s an ABOUT page … Thanks for you support!

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I wanted to share this song I play when friends or acquantices of mine pass away. I usually play it in private when no one else is around, because, well, I sing terribly. In light of Sunday being September 11th, and all the tragic losses from Hurricane Katrina, I’ve been playing it a lot lately.

The original version of this song from the 40’s, the lyrics are much different. See here. I discovered the song, only after Ukulele Eck, (Joel Eckhaus), sang it at a radio station and I caught some MP3s online—- The version presented here, is only what I tabbed out myself, who knows, it’s probably not even right, but it plays fine to me and it’s a simplified pattern for just playing along. — To help, I put up a mpg video clip of me playing this, WARNING again, I sing terribly but here you go:

http://yirmumah.net/video/ukulele.html

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The first two uke club comics were down for a spell– the link had changed. They’re back up and ready to roll for folks who missed it.

Sorry about that!

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Been a good while since I posted an actual uke comic– enjoy!

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The response to the uke club comics went really well. Be on the lookout for more uke comics here soon. I’ll most likely do a weekly strip of some sort, doing a full daily would take some actual income or something, or sponsors.

Thanks again to everyone for checking us out!

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If you don’t know this song… you should look it up. RAW POWER!!!!

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Hope everyone is enjoying these. Thanks for stoppin’ by!

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