Better late than never. This was drawn in November, 2014. It is one of my favorite time-change cartoons. This cartoon is notable in another way: it employs a benday pattern, the dots that produce the large uniform gray areas in panels one and three. For more than a century, newspapers printed with only one color, black. Any white was the color of the newsprint itself. All between shades of gray (and gray is all there would be) were created by breaking down areas of black with the use of dots which would vary in size and pattern. This is the benday pattern, named for its 19th-century inventor, illustrator Benjamin Henry Day Jr. Benday patterns have been integral to printing ever since, including the printing of color images, a varying but similar process. I say it is notable in this case, because I seldom have used shading to achieve gray in Arlo & Janis. Usually, it’s just black and white.
219 responses to “Gray Area”
Snuffy Smith!!!! Hal has never read comics.
How not to have a Happy Thanksgiving:
http://video.startribune.com/how-not-to-burn-house-down-while-deep-frying-your-turkey/402304465/
Won’t open. Here’s one from YouTube.
https://youtu.be/hXESqkUf2IU
And turkey fires from State Farm.
https://youtu.be/hQYTMFCLy5E
And William Shatner for State Farm. https://youtu.be/ETBD0EqQGoU
And the Duck Dynasty guys frying turkey for State Farm.
https://youtu.be/ZNPNayJDxIo
Gives a whole new meaning to fire up the grill.
Good night everyone. Just read a book straight through tonight without stopping, The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty. I have always loved and admired her work.
Another gift from The New Yorker magazine. I don’t know if I read her first there but I read her often in their pages. Has anyone read an especially good book, old or new?
GM Debbe
The older I Get.
The more I realize no one has any idea what they are actually doing
And everyone is just pretending. 🙂
Good morning Villagers
GM Old Bear…love your quote, sort of goes with today’s real time strip….ahh reality.
Going through some sleep deprivation, bear with me.
Jackie, hope your ‘fridge and freezer come today.
When GR said he’d be gone awhile, he meant awhile…..
Today is warmer, but rain coming in tonight….going to hen house and do some cleaning.
ya’ll have a blessed day
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love these kittehs…..
Good morning. I understand about sleep disruption issues.
Mine are always with me.
Dickens my little sleeping buddy is licking my foot right now, he is trying to make it “feel better” the only way he knows. Skipper the cat is licking himself, difference in cats and dogs.
Need to get dressed and call Lowe’s, find out where fridge is. And go back to cleaning a little.
Lowe’s says my fridge isn’t in and they have to research it.
Not good information.
Nope, not good at all Jackie.
Procrastinating about going into work….haven’t even got dressed….still in bathrobe. Still though, I need a paycheck next week…should really call Jonathon…ok, I will
later….
ok dokee, called Jonathon. Need to wire brush the steel rod conveyor and put mineral oil on the rods so they don’t start rusting again. The boss is still optimistic about another egg producer. I just love that man, he’s strong in his faith, family values too. Most of the time he has his two grandchildren living with him, and that is good considering the alternative….their parents have ‘reality’ issues.
On the dark side, some of the comments are good ones….nostalgic….remember party lines? The telephone operator, never having to dial, just gave her the number, I still remember ours, 336.
Jackie, hoping the best for your fridge! I’m currently reading: “The Norths Meet Murder” by Frances and Richard Lockridge, “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Rebecca Stott, and “You Learn by Living” by Eleanor Roosevelt. All three very good.
Jimmy, I got a kick out of Arlo’s “old reality.” But Arlo, it still IS your day!
Debbe, I’m sorry to hear about the sleep deprivation. Does a purring cat help any? Or maybe a bedtime book?
I love your Boss Man, Debbe!
Been tidying kitchen, need to get dressed besides shorts and tee shirt however. Making some northern bean and sausage soup, adding new potatoes I think too.
It is hot and humid here.
I imagine that everyone who was alive on this date in 1963 can tell you exactly where they were at a little after 12 noon EST. Mine was the Officers’ Quarters, Maxwell AFB, AL.
God bless us every one. God bless the USA. Have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.
Playground at Alberta Elementary School in Tuscaloosa, AL. Part of a 3rd grade class. They called us in and sent us home.
Oh my cat…these are hilarious 🙂 Guess you can tell I’ve not made it in to work yet…almost 50 here. rain coming in tonight.
http://cheezburger.com/1168389/hilarious-guy-recreates-famous-movie-scenes-with-his-cat-and-we-cant-wait-to-see-more?ref=whatspopularvotes
Smigz…my Boss is a keeper, that’s why I did what I did for 5 years….he once told me that I was the kind if employee that every employer wanted….best compliment I’ve heard told to me in all my life.
I can’t remember what grade I was in at the time JFK was assassinated…but the elementary school was Catholic, and we went to church when the news came out….loved those nuns, and their habits. You could hear them in their big, thick, black lace shoes coming down the hallways on the wooden floors…with their beads (rosary) swinging back and forth hanging from their waste. Took 5 years of piano lessons too.
Thanks domaucon for bringing up the memories of yesteryear…..
I was in 4th grade, announcement came over intercom system from principal. A long, sad walk home that day…
Second grade. I was not in school that day…out sick. We usually had the radio on, but didn’t that day. My Dad walked in the door after work and told us “President Kennedy is dead.” Dad’s voice shook and he seemed in shock.
College. I don’t remember when I heard but I remember sitting in lobby of dorm watching black and white t.V. crying. Finally one of my male friends drove us back home for weekend and I cried all the way. Never quit crying.
Here is a topic of conversation from lunch. We were eating the bean soup and cheesey Mexican corn muffins. One of my workmen friends asked if it was true about Southern church ladies drinking cough medicine and patent medicines to get drunk?
I said “Hadacol”, the factory was in Lafayette, LA right behind my late husband’s family lumber yard. People all over America were addicted to it. So I read this article to them. It is fascinating, the last medicine show.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadacol