Feb 10th 2008 04:00 am Another interesting game is red light

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Yesterday’s old cartoon posted here normally. Then, I came back and added remarks about how I edit your comments. Several people subsequently wrote to ask, “OK, so where’s today’s cartoon.” It was there, of course, under the newer verbage, but it wasn’t readily visible. You had to scroll down.

The low-tech answer to this little problem is to check the date at the top of each recent post. If a post carries today’s date, voila! If you’re more adventurous, you might explore the RSS feature, which is one of the significant additions to the new format. You sign up by clicking on the “RSS feed” link on the righthand side of the menu bar near the top of the page.  This feature automatically informs you when new material has been added to the page.

Of course, we might not have this problem if the logo weren’t so big.

Posted by jimmyjohnson / Vintage A&J

26 Responses to “Another interesting game is red light”

  1. Marie on 10 Feb 2008 at 7:08 am #

    The logo’s fine. Don’t change a thing.

  2. Greg in Robertsdale on 10 Feb 2008 at 7:31 am #

    You leave that logo alone, young man. It’s just fine the way it is!!! Well, I think the yellow background you had on it originally set it off better, but other than that, it;s fine. If people are too lazy to scroll, it’s amazing they found the page. Like tha man behind the curtain, ignore them, too.
    Today’s Sunday feature was inspired by our microphones, I think. Now shut them off so my wife and I can talk for a minute. It’s secret. :o )

    Call them lazy, but I’m on their side. Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill once said a reporter has to “put the hay down where the mules can get at it.” Good Web design is the same way. Anything, like an oversized logo, that impedes the message is a minus. I’m glad so many of you like the logo, though. Obviously, your opinion counts.

  3. Jim in southwest Illannoy on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:15 am #

    Uh oh, and no doghouse for Arlo to be sent to either (today’s cartoon).

    Was it intentional for today’s cartoon plus today’s vintage cartoon to both be bedroom conversation scenes? I’ve been fortunate to not accidentally say something like that to my wife when trying to sleep (so far). We have had some interesting conversations when only one person in the conversation is really awake though.

  4. James Cummings on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:32 am #

    I’d hate to see you change the logo. Maybe shrink it a tad if you think it’s so large.

  5. CG from MN on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:10 am #

    Do NOT change the logo

    By the way when do you have time to draw – it seems you are monitoring this site
    60 / 24

    I really like the interaction – you have the best fans.

    an oldbear

  6. Jay Vee on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:13 am #

    Logo is fine, but you can shrink it quite a bit. At 1024 X 768 – I can’t see the whole cartoon. I don’t mind scrolling down to read your commentary.

    I really like the site and it is a must visit every morning.

  7. Don Robertson on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:13 am #

    The big “in your face ” logo defines the site! A picture says a thousand words, and no-one likes to strain to hear.

    If the mule is hungry he will gladly trot over to get the hay.

    The whole site is scrolling based… always was. Let em flail around a bit. They’ll figure it out.

    I like the original background on the logo better too…. but you are the artist. And you are king of your domain. Of course you don’t want revolting peasants on your hands either.

  8. Alan in Seattle on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:20 am #

    You could perhaps make a little thingee to go at the top of supplemental posts that folks only interested in today’s archive cartoon could ‘click here’ to skip the wit & wisdom and go straight to the meat.

  9. JugnGin on 10 Feb 2008 at 1:10 pm #

    About the logo… That car looks like one I used to draw in class while I was busy flunking algebra. Is it a TR-3 an Aston or a Ferrari?? I know it isn’t a bug-eye Sprite. Udden udden!!

    We’ve discussed this: you can follow the thread by going back to some of the earlier January posts. The short version is, it’s a Shelby Cobra. — JJ

  10. Barbara on 10 Feb 2008 at 2:20 pm #

    I love the logo, that’s what I visualize my husband and I as being (it’s too hard to visualize us as a lot younger, but to be hip middle-aged …. that’s a can do.

    This brings up an interesting question, will we ever see gray in either Arlo or Janis’ hair?

  11. Russell on 10 Feb 2008 at 2:25 pm #

    This isn’t actually related to your strip, but it does follow on something you commented on a few months ago. You were talking about how sometimes the same joke will appear in different cartoons on the same day, but that’s just coincidental. On today’s comics.com pages though, there are three strips that are identical, even down to the extra comment in the last panel, with just a couple of different comparisons drawn. How do three strips do that, unless there was a plan of some sort? (The strips I’m referring to are Candorvill by Darrin Bell, Herb and Jamaal by Stephen Bentley, and Watch You Head by Cory Thomas.)

    I don’t really expect you to see into the heads of these writers to know just what they were all thinking, or to know if they planned it this way, but it is odd that these strips couldn’t be much more identical if it were planned.

    This was planned. Here’s the explanation.

  12. THG on 10 Feb 2008 at 3:30 pm #

    Love the logo. And love the size (old eyes don’t have to squint)!

  13. John Leonard on 10 Feb 2008 at 4:58 pm #

    Shouldn’t the “voila” in the entry above have been “viola”? I wish I could remember which Hanna-Barbera cartoon character always made that substitution. Oh well, gettin’ old.

  14. Sheila in New Brunswick on 10 Feb 2008 at 6:23 pm #

    Umm I’ve been single for 12 years now – remind me,why is it Janis wants Arlo to roll over anyway?

  15. Carol on 10 Feb 2008 at 7:22 pm #

    love the yellow background as well, but don’t change the logo!!!

  16. Alan Johnson on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:36 pm #

    This may have been said before, but you really should sell T-shirts with that logo on them. Keep it as it is on the page, and give us junkies an opportunity spread the word on our clothes. This of course is nothing new. We pay you to advertise your stuff! Ain’t America great!?! Put me down for a large. I also think long sleave “T-shirts” would do well.

    Alan in Nashville

  17. Greg in Robertsdale on 10 Feb 2008 at 9:28 pm #

    Well, Sheila, since he gets a lot of his material from the microphones and cameras hidden in our house, I feel appropriately qualified to answer that, since it happens quite often in our house. Arlo was snoring like a buzz-saw. If he lays on his left side, he doesn’t snore nearly as bad. Unless of course, Jimmy was monitoring someone else’s house the day he wrote this one. He’s like that sometimes just to throw us off the scent. :o )

  18. Peter B. Steiger on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:51 pm #

    Sheila, Janis is probably under the (mistaken) impression this will either make him stop snoring or make it less earth-shatteringly loud. Pfah. I haven’t been able to sleep next to Mrs. Freight Train without earplugs for 18 years. When she gets going, I can get her to roll over to every possible position and she still shakes the plaster loose from the walls. Sometimes even my “31 db reduction” plugs aren’t enough to let me sleep – which is another important reason to send your kids off to college, so you can move to a bedroom on the other end of the house when the snoring gets too painful. It makes me wish I needed a hearing aid, so I could turn it off at night.

  19. Tom on 11 Feb 2008 at 1:04 am #

    Add another vote for the big logo. I like it.

    I’d be afraid to use the RSS feed. I’d spend even more time here than I already do!

  20. Kathleen on 11 Feb 2008 at 8:58 am #

    This may not be the forum to express this, and therefore won’t be upset if Jimmy decides not to post this, but I don’t understand the purpose of the “sketch in” demonstration by “minority” cartoonists. I don’t understand why making eleven strips the same demonstrates the diversity in “minority” strips. In my honest opinion, all comics are very different. I enjoy a particular type of comic and don’t enjoy others. Therefore, I ignore the ones I don’t enjoy. I enjoy comics of every ethnic genre that fit into the type of comics I enjoy. I guess I just don’t understand the issue.

    I was unaware of this plan until after the fact Sunday. I really don’t know much about it. I’ll read up on it, so I’ll know a little more. I don’t see any harm in discussing it. I suppose that’s what the participants intended. — JJ

  21. Anne on 11 Feb 2008 at 9:46 am #

    Or as my husband said the other day, “roll over Mitt Romney, tell Kucinich the news” which dates both of us for our musical memory.

    I like the new website & the big logo.

  22. Sheila in New Brunswick on 11 Feb 2008 at 11:56 am #

    Greg and Peter – thanks for the answers – maybe being single ain’t so bad after all! :o )

  23. Ken from Framingham (Boston Globe reader) on 11 Feb 2008 at 6:35 pm #

    What’s with the tone of submissions in the “rolling over” discussion, and so close to Valentines Day— she may want to spoon!

  24. Rowan on 12 Feb 2008 at 3:04 am #

    On the other hand, it may not be snoring that’s bothering Janis. Perhaps he’s blowing in her face in that exhale. While I can stand the hubby’s snoring most of the time, there’s nothing worse than is his blowing air in my face while I’m sleeping.

    I think the editor in your story was never on the internet.

  25. sarah in oregon on 12 Feb 2008 at 12:08 pm #

    I’m with Alan in Nashville. Love the logo. Awaiting the opportunity to purchase some nice t-shirts both long and short sleeved. Just make sure you have some made in XL or maybe XXL or maybe even XXXL (some cotton tends to shrink so that the XXL you bought is suddenly an XL and you look like a large marshmallow stuffed into a graham cracker).

    to Greg in Robertsdale — I feel the same way about the hidden cameras, only EYE think Mr. J. Johnson has been spying on my cat to get ideas for Ludwig because otherwise, how does Mr. J Johnsn KNOW so much about my cat. I laughed more than once at last Friday’s cartoon about cats and the Iditarod. It still cracks me up.

    by the way, while I am a single person, that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the interplay between Arlo and Janis. Sunday’s cartoon also made me laugh out loud.

    I am still giggling.

  26. Kim in California on 18 Feb 2008 at 12:47 am #

    Peter, has your wife been checked for sleep apnea? My husband snored for years, but each year got worse and worse. If I fell asleep first, then I could sleep through the night. As time passed, the snoring worsened beyond any hope for me getting any sleep! In 1998 he finally went to doctors and learned he has sleep apnea, which made sense, with all the other symptoms. He was falling asleep in the middle of the day, he couldn’t concentrate, and he’d stop breathing when he was sleeping, (I’d be poking him all night to get him to breathe!) which meant he was depriving himself of oxygen. He had dark circles under his eyes, also, and his skin was sort of an ashen color. The doctor told him if he had not come in when he did, he’d probably have had a stroke before he was 50. He’s been using a C-Pap machine now, and it doesn’t make hardly any noise. I actually have a hard time falling asleep if he’s not there with the machine on! He has one machine in the house, and one in the trailer, so we never get caught on the road realizing we’ve forgotten it. If your wife has any of these other symptoms, urge her to see a doctor right away! I begged Jeff for years to go before he finally went.