It's funny how people can't get up the confidence to do their own comics/music/writing/mime troupe/whatever.  Like somehow mainstream media is more legit.  Yeah right.
        I mean, there's a zillion TV channels and it all sucks! There's racks full of comics and they're all lame! You can spin the dial and there's nothing good on the radio! That's reason enough to do your own thing. It may not be better, but it definitely ain't worse. And it's yours.
         If you're a youngster or a hipster, everything centers around music cultural consumption. There must be better ways to define oneself. Why is it we wave the flag for indie music but not indie film? And why is being a musician so valued in our culture?
         So in an effort to steal their thunder, I thought it would be good to get the musicians doing music about comics. (Plenty of comics about bands, but when was the last time you saw a CD plug a comic in its liner notes?)
         Hence "Music From and Inspired by QuickDraw".  If you think that's funny, what about bald-faced merchandising efforts like "Music from and Inspired by Melrose Place", or the soundtrack from "Dawson's Creek"? That's supposed to be "normal"? What a silly world we live in.
 
         Apparently a few other people feel the same way.

Brooklyn's Ken Grobe kicked it off with “Let’s Sing Songs About QuickDraw”. At the time I was in Melbourne and passed the tape around. [mp3]

Bill the Destroyer (Melbourne) contributed the raucous “Green Room” with some assistance from Aaron O'Donnell and friends. He is not a guy you want to mess with.[comic] [mp3]  

The Inquisitive Mr. Davies (Sassafrass, Victoria) contributed the slow and sensitive “QuickDraw Paean”. [mp3]

Living Indefinitely  (USA) provided "Transpacific Phone Call" based on the QuickDraw #2 strip. [comic] [mp3]

Melbourne’s Aaron O'Donnell (Melbourne) tossed his hat in the ring and collaborated with some friends for with "QuickJam". "Trees are made of this".[mp3]

Ken Grobe channels Barry White in “Love Theme From QuickDraw (Old School Hooptie Mix)”. This was sent as a .wav file, the first but not last high-tech submission! [mp3]

Sludge (Jesse Reklaw, San Francisco) sent “I Can’t Hear You” via audio cassette, jamming on some stuff from (now out of print ) dream comic 'World of Sleep'. [mp3] His latest musical efforts are under the rubric 'Superstring' in collaboration with Brandon MacInnis. http://www.quirkyworks.com/superstring

Siem Reap All Starz (Siem Reap) recorded "Kom Auie Knyom Deik Sruel"  (Special thanks to Seng Ratha for draft translation, Marin Yann for proofing and suggesting new lyrics, Karl Malone for sound wizardry and Eve Zucker & Emiko Stock for additional tips.) [comic] [mp3]

Bill the Destroyer (Melbourne) also did “Drugstore Cowboy” with help from Aaron O'Donnell  & crew. "Let's get High". [comic] [mp3]

Suon Peng works as a music teacher in Phnom Penh, and plays the 'chapei dong veng' for "Cricket Song". [comic] [mp3]

Portland parlor piano player  David Chelsea (Portland Oregon) went 'low fi' to record “QuickDraw Lullaby” on his phone answering machine. [mp3]

        Remember, the whole point of this comic is to get things done, even if they're not perfect.  That goes for the music too.  No style is off limits though I reserve the right to make the final cut.  Some folks have done interpretations of the stories, others are direct readings. And it would be nice to have some link back to QuickDraw or small press comics in general.

     In future if I sell any CDs, I would like any profits to go to the nonprofits such Nou Hach Journal or the Cambodia Book Sector Federation, to advance the efforts of Cambodian cartoonists. 

  Contributors will be compensated in the form of compilation copies and sexual favors.

 Here's how it works:

1) you come up with a tune and send it off to me, pleased at your accomplishment.
2) I add it to the page as the list of contributions grows.
3) You think "Is that it?" as you wait and wait years (that's right, years) for the end product.
4) Maybe you get a CD years later in the mail.