True West Magazine
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.
Larry McMurtry was Columbia Pictures‘ first choice to adapt Honkytonk Sue to the big screen, but despite multiple scripts, the movie was never produced.