|
BOBBY NASH
Writer and Artist of Life In The Faster Lane
Jazma Online, April 26, 2006 by Richard Vasseur
RV: How did you end up originally creating "Life In The Faster Lane"?
Bobby Nash: The University of Georgia in Athens, GA has a wonderful continuing education program. I’ve taken a few classes there. My first was a cartooning class taught by local artist Bill Staton in 1992. One of our assignments was to create a one-panel gag strip. My first step was to create the perfect character. Then I thought of making a comic strip character based on my Dad, who is something of a character himself. Thus was the comic strip R.O. born. It would be a few years before it was renamed Life In The Faster Lane. I should also mention that the strip has been running all this time in a monthly publication called Keeping Up With Kids, a local family magazine in North Georgia. The strips are still called R.O. there.
RV: What are R.O., Honey and Melvin Nudell like?
BN: The characters of R.O., Honey, and Melvin are parodies of my Dad, Mom, and Brother. None of them have aged much since I started drawing the strips though. The strips are usually slice of life gags. Many are based on true events or comments.
The full text of this article can be found at Jazma Online.
|
