Today’s old strip from 2012 is offered without editorial opinion. Through the years, Janis’ interest in sports has been revealed to be purely sporting. I think this arose long ago when Janis routinely would do well in her office’s football pool, while Arlo perennially wasted his dollar. I think it’s a cute juxtaposition, and I’ve had a lot of fun with it. And, yes, “cute” can be the appropriate word on occasion. I was talking about the colorization of Arlo & Janis last week. I was saying that I personally color the Sunday strips, while a third party at the syndicate colors the dailies. Until now. As of this week, all the new strips that you see in color at GoComics and in many newspapers—daily and Sunday—were colored directly by yours truly. Me. Yes, they finally convinced me this color thing isn’t going away.
31 responses to “The Color of Funny”
I have always done the grocery shopping as I worked in retail many years ago and became a pretty savvy shopper. As I’ve pointed out before, my wife does much of the cleaning around the house and until just a few years ago, most of the cooking. I have taken over that task, so shopping is kind of important.
Things do change. And finally we do get old enough to accept some of them.
Milt from Huntsville, AL
The wife and I actually met Tua Tagovailoa’s father in Honolulu this past July while we were there on vaca.
When he mentioned his son was recruited by Alabama as a quarterback I initially thought “Yeah, right!” Alabama isn’t known for recruiting from Hawaii; at least not successfully. Beside that most local Hawaii talent is scarfed by U of Hawaii or wind up at a west coast school.
Being an Auburn fan myself, I hadn’t kept up with Bama recruiting. But, sure enough, when I looked him up, there he was on the roster.
What do you suppose are the odds of that?
Huh, look at that!
You can really see the difference – whoever was coloring the strip at the syndicate used a simpler approach, lots of white backgrounds.
You’ve used more gradients, like today’s second panel where the text w/o a balloon is nicely on a white background, with a gradient to match the other backgrounds.
It looks… more like a Sunday. How about that.
Thanks for the “inside baseball,” and good luck! For what it’s worth, I think I like “artist colored” better, I think the end product is cleaner and more consistent.
http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/ is where you can view the Berry College eagle pair. As they are so much more southerly than the Decorah pair, they have already produced two eggs and are incubating same. There will be two li’l fuzzballs in roughly 32 or so more days.
Jimmy changed strips today. New comments section already started there.