The long and circuitous road from the Hayloft Bar to Larry McMurtry’ s typewriter and back again.
Back in my Honkytonk Days (and Nights!), I played drums in a Country-Western band at the Hayloft Bar on Ruthrauff Road in Tucson. Wild place. During breaks I would sit at the bar and sketch the patrons. My experiences there led almost directly to my cartoon creation, Honkytonk Sue, which premiered in National Lampoon in the summer of 1977.
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True West June 2021