This text was written in December 2000, when the 2nd model of INeedCoffee was launched.
INeedCoffee, like many web sites, is taken into account by its creators to be a perpetual work in progress. Change is a continuing, and people of you who’ve visited for a while now have definitely seen adjustments in content material, performance, and look. Nonetheless, as INeedCoffee unveils its new look, one ingredient stays unchanged: the masthead remains to be a creation of Bob Therrien, higher identified to the world as BadBob.
INeedCoffee Dangerous Bob v1 (April 1999 – December 2000)
INeedCoffee Dangerous Bob v2 (December 2000 – April 2003)
Does Dangerous Bob’s model look acquainted to you? If that’s the case, you might effectively have seen some by-product of “Screaming Man”, a cartoon he drew for the Advocate, an alternate weekly newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut. BadBob was born in Georgetown, Connecticut, and has moved “out and in of Connecticut” by means of the years. Nonetheless, a contracting job introduced him out to Colorado within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, and there he has remained ever since, now residing in Broomfield, Colorado.
A Rocky Mountain Relocation
“Once I first bought right here, I used to be out of form; fats, even,” BadBob explains. “Now I can’t think about leaving [Colorado]… I do mountain climbing and kick-ass hikes on trails the place you run down utilizing the identical muscle groups you utilize for snowboarding.”
“I’m 100 years outdated, however I’m free climbing on the Flatirons,” he says, including that he’s usually in a position to cruise previous lots of the youthful hikers. BadBob has additionally taken up snowboarding and golf, rounding out a near-complete adaptation to the basic picture of an outdoorsy Colorado life-style.
Creative Evolution
In his new environs, Therrien’s skilled and creative lives have advanced alongside together with his leisure life.
Dangerous Bob’s day job consists of mechanical engineering and technical illustration, and whereas he not cartoons frequently, he continues to attract shut family of Screaming Man and insinuates that there could also be extra cartoons to return.
Cartooning is however one in every of his creative pursuits, and his newer efforts have been in different endeavors, just lately together with “murals, ink drawings, and watercolors. Work are taken from photos I’ve taken.”
Not content material to restrict himself to the visible arts, Therrien additionally obeys a lifelong ardour for music. He performs guitar and sings for various permutations of musicians, normally dubbed the BadBob Band.
“I’ve been enjoying music all my life,” Therrien says. “I performed in a punk band within the day of punk, and I used to be in a lounge band within the ’70s.” Whereas the lounge band did journey, BadBob and his fellow musicians had been ultimately slowed down in dead-end gigs in Maine and Alabama. He remembers, “We sucked, so I assume we deserved it!”
Espresso Credentials
So what has drawn INeedCoffee to hunt Dangerous Bob’s artistry twice over? Is it a coincidence that the favourite cartoonist of a number of caffeine junkies is himself a caffeine junkie? It seems that Dangerous Bob’s coffee-drinking credentials are as critical as they will get.
One want solely see a cartoon adorning Bab Bob’s private web site to know precisely the place the artist stands on the problem. A number of espresso drinkers adorn the positioning, most notably a gun-toting, Screaming Maniac, who calls for of his goal, “What a part of ‘no decaf’ don’t you perceive?”
Dangerous Bob’s life, to a much less violent diploma, is certainly reflective of his artwork. “Sure, I’m a frequent espresso drinker,” he says. “I drink many sorts of espresso; I’m not a snob in any respect..I attempt to discover many sources of caffeine; not simply espresso.”
When requested if he views it as a luxurious or a authorized drug, Therrien says: “I like to consider caffeine as a authorized drug, as a result of I’m hooked on it. I’ve to have it.”
The Excellent New Look
INeedCoffee is proud to as soon as once more have Dangerous Bob’s work adorning its website. It’s abundantly clear why: Dangerous Bob’s model, be it his creative model, life-style, or model of caffeine consumption, makes his Screaming Espresso Man an ideal image for espresso devotees and the data they will discover on INeedCoffee. So go online, pour your self a cup, and when the caffeine begins to kick in, scream proper together with Dangerous Bob’s new espresso character.
Assets
The Caffeine – 2 poems by Dangerous Bob.
Robert Therrien Jr. – Official website.
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