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WHO? |
Uke
Club is run by cartoonist D.J. Coffman, who hates talking about himself
in the third person, so I'll stop right now. For my past projects, see
my old website.
Currently, I'm drawing a daily webcomic that's probably NOT for everyone.
I suggest pg-13 maybe? Bottom line, it uses coarse language and some subject
material isn't suited for kids or the easily offended. All that said,
the link is: yirmumah.net |
WHAT?
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Uke
Club is primarily a place for me to blog about the ukulele underground
or post comics about the ukulele. |
WHY?
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Why
did I start Uke Club? Well, I started playing ukulele because I needed
a hobby, since drawing cartoons became a full time gig. I thought it might
be sad if I didn't have an actual "hobby" that wasn't my work.
After hearing the song "Soon Forget" by Ed Vedder, I knew I
had to learn to play this thing, so that I could relax and play little
ditties like that one. --- I was bitten by the uke bug soon after.. Launching
Uke Club was a way to share ukulele with some new people, and even though
I'm not an expert, I thought it might be good to use the skills I have
(cartooning) to teach people the ukulele in a really simple and FREE form.
I admit, I'm no expert at all, but who needs to be when you got four strings
and the truth? Anyone can play the uke, and that's the awesome thing about
it. |
WHEN?
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The
site will be updated as often as I get time to do it. There is no set
schedule, although I'd REALLY love to at least post once a day with occassional
ukulele themed comic strips. |
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HOW? |
I learned to play ukulele afte buying up Ralph Shaw's videotape and a couple uke books, I learned the basics and tried memorizing all the chords and practicing on how fast I could switch chords, learning simple 3 chord songs like "Let my love open the door" etc... The very FIRST uke I owned was one given to me by a friend. It was a dinky little learner soprano. Then I bought a HIlo Tenor Kit from good ol' Roy Cone at ukuleleworld.com -- it sounded fine, but my next uke was the Black Lava Fluke, became my favorite to play, and that's when I learned that just about all ukes had different sounds. My favorite ukes to play currently are the Lanikai Cutaway Tenor Uke and my black Fluke Ukulele. |
My next uke will probably be a custom uke of some sort, when I can afford one. No sense in spending all the money on various one and filling a room when I should save the money and get something proper made. |
THE COMICS: Are drawn on Bristol Board, scanned into Photohop, then colored via a Wacom Tablet. I also do all my web design stuff in Dreamweaver. |
E-mail: yirmail@yirmumah.net