D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: Keep On Truckin’
Here at Comics Tunes Tuesdays – the nexus of comics and records – you never know where the comic connection is going to be found.
Sometimes it’s a song about a comic strip character, like “Barney Google” (which is about Barney Google, FYI). Sometimes it’s the theme song to an animated cartoon like Atom Ant or Peter Potamus (which is nicely alliterative, unlike Peter Ant or Atom Potamus).
We’ve had songs sung by cartoonists, songs written about comic books, even songs played by groups named after cartoon characters!
This Tuesday it’s something new. A single comic page inspired by a song. I can’t think of another single page in comics history, or perhaps just that one single panel (!) that had as much impact as R. Crumb’s Keep On Truckin’ - which obviously gets its name from the song “Keep On Truckin’.” I suspect that it wasn’t Donovan’s version that lit Crumb’s candle, but since Donovan mentions Superman and Green Lantern in a big hit record, it’s his “Keep On Truckin’” we’re sharing today.
Click the photo for a closer look.
Click the link below to listen. And please truck responsibly.
— DJ David B.
