Lackadaisy
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| Lackadaisy | |
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| Author(s) | Tracy J. Butler |
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| Update schedule | Irregular |
| Launch date | July 19, 2006 |
| End Date | Continuing |
| Genre | ? |
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Lackadaisy is a webcomic created by female artist Tracy J. Butler, set in a Prohibition-era 1927 St. Louis inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The plot chronicles the fortunes of the Lackadaisy Speakeasy after its founder is murdered.
The style of the comic is highly detailed, and the strips are sepia-toned, resembling aged photographs. Launched on 19 July 2006, the comic updates on an irregular basis, with 53 pages as of April, 2008.
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[edit] Premise
When Prohibition gripped the country in 1920, Atlas May set his eatery, the Little Daisy Café, as the front for a massively successful establishment—the Lackadaisy Speakeasy.[1] Situated within a network of limestone caves at whose mouth the Café is situated, access to the speakeasy is only granted to those showing a club-shaped pin.
With fairly easy access to illegal spirits and a steady clientèle, business burgeons, and the Lackadaisy becomes a premier establishment.
In 1926, however, Atlas was murdered by members of a rival establishment, and management of the Little Daisy and Lackadaisy fell to his widow Mitzi. Patronage at the Lackadaisy gradually fell off, bringing it to the brink of collapse. This is where the comic's story begins.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main characters
- Atlas May is the founder of the Little Daisy Café and subsequently the Lackadaisy Speakeasy. He was murdered by members of a rival establishment in 1926, and his widow, Mitzi, is one of the suspects.
- Mitzi May is Atlas' widow and the current owner of the establishment. As its new owner she faces slacking sales, doubts about her ability, and the looming cloud of her husband's murder.
- Roark "Rocky" Rickaby is formerly a violinist in Lackadaisy's jazz band, though with the speakeasy's decline he has become its premier gin and whiskey runner. He has a manic personality which is interrupted only by bouts of surprising insight and also has a MacGyver-esque propensity for escaping from dangerous situations.
- Ivy Pepper is Atlas' goddaughter, a flapper and a university student working the cash register part-time at the Little Daisy. An intelligent, though somewhat volatile girl, Ivy is aware of the goings-on in regards to the speakeasy below.
- Viktor Vasko is a former bootlegger for the speakeasy but has been relinquished, by occupational injuries and advancing age, to less physical tasks. He now serves the speakeasy primarily as its bartender.
- Sedgewick "Wick" Sable made considerable assets off of work in the local mining and quarrying industry. He is a frequent and longstanding Lackadaisy patron, and he is Mitzi's latest escort.
- Nina McMurray is Freckle's mother and Rocky's aunt. She is a devout Irish Catholic and a stern disciplinarian who harbors some gripes with the state of the world in the time of the comic's setting.
- Calvin "Freckle" McMurray is a genteel son to Nina, but perhaps harbors some surprising predispositions. Failing in his bid to become a police officer, Freckle (sometimes not entirely willingly) assists Rocky with carrying out his duties.
- Serafine Savoy is a member of the rival Marigold gang and self-declared Voodoo priestess. She is also the sister of Nicodeme.
- Nicodeme "Nico" Savoy is the brother of Serafine and a Marigold gang member with a nihilistic demeanor.
- Mordecai Heller is a former employee of Lackadaisy from its glory days. He is now serves the Marigold gang.
[edit] Secondary and incidental characters
- Dorian "Zib" Zibowski is the leader of the Lackadaisy jazz band. He has only appeared in a visual role in the introduction comic.
- A busboy, real name and role currently unknown. He has only appeared in a visual role in the introduction comic.
- Captain Kehoe, though his role hasn't been completely revealed, is a smuggler of liquor and alcohol. He has only appeared in two strips.
- Lacy is the personal assistant to Sedgewick. She has only appeared in one strip.
- The farmers, consisting of Avril, Emery, and an unnamed third, run a farm outside of St. Louis. Avril has appeared in the comic the greatest number of times among the three farmers, appearing in nine comics; the unnamed third appears in six comics; and finally Emery appears in five.
[edit] Awards
In 2007, Lackadaisy was nominated for, and won four awards in the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. It won the award for Outstanding Newcomer, Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Character Rendering and Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Though the word "café" appears as "cafe" in narration and dialogue, the accent appears as part of the logo on the window of the restaurant in the first comic.
[edit] External links
- Tracy Butler's gallery on Foxprints
- Tracy Butler's gallery on deviantART
- Tracy Butler's gallery on Yerf
- Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards 2007
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