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BackstoryI struggled with the opening panel for Horse Opera over several days.
I always the loved the illustrations in Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane. He was one of only a few comic strip creators that used a double-tone technique to give his work extra depth. It took me quite a while to track down a source for this special bristol that I used for the Horse Opera story.
Weed Ross is such a chain smoker, no one even remembers his real name. Unfortunately, even his horse always seems to have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Cimarron Rose was named after the Cimarron River that runs through Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. In Spanish, Cimarron means wild and unruly - an apt name for this Pony Express rider. I enjoyed creating the Horse Opera comix for the first issue of my self-published mini, Funny Paper. You don't see a lot of humorous stories set in the old West. Of course, one of my favorites is Tumbleweeds by the great TK Ryan.
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