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”
Good to know that any questions on the coloring in the daily strips will no longer need to be debated – they were decided by the author. Thanks for your comics through the years and this blog. Very enjoyable.
I’m sure last night’s game was a difficult one for you, given the options.
I just feel relief. A great year keeps them barking until September, but a championship would have had them yapping for years.
Yesss!!!!
Subtle colors, appropriately done and applicable to the art work.
Love it. Today’s is great Jimmy.
So how much more time will that take you? What if you are hard pressed for time and can only submit black and white versions? Will the Syndicate (not THAT Syndicate) color them for you?
Coloring strips would be difficult for me. I not only cannot draw, but I never was good at coloring between the lines. Unless I had a computer program.
Glad to know you now have more control over how you want your work to appear. Congratulations on convincing the front office you know better than anonymous colorists!
I remember you had a cardinal once that was gray. So is daily coloring an option that the artists have always had? Or is the syndicate saying they won’t or don’t want to do it anymore, but you have to?
I for one am quite glad that the coloring will be all yours.
Love the colors! Arlo finally has a shirt that isn’t red!
That’s what Ghost said! We thought he had just the red one.
The new colors are softer, more subtle and contribute.
Consistent hair colors from now on! And always a salmon couch. Hm, I wonder how much time it’ll add to your cartooning.
Thank you, Jimmy, every day!
Like all above, Jimmy, I like your choices in color better. But the real compliment in today’s new strip is Janis’s burst of outrageous laughter. Simple lines make a complex emotion plain to every viewer. Well done.
There is hope, I might now see some ultra-violet and infrared.
We who subscribe to the Tampa Bay Times (nee St. Petersburg Times) will not get to see the results of JJ’s daily color work in print. Thank goodness for GoComics. The Times prints one page of comics in color and two half pages in B&W. One of the strips on the color page is Lio which, even on Sunday, has very little color (and more recently, not much humor either.)
H&J daily was as an inherited strip from the now defunct Tampa Tribune. The TB Times had always carried the Sunday strip.
In the final couple of years of the Tribune’s life, the Sunday Comics were skimpy in number, filling only four pages. The two inside pages were black and white!
The Tampa Bay Times Company bought the Tribune on a Monday. The last edition was Tuesday morning.
Hi Jimmy! Your coloring is better, of course, but are you simultaneously moving to a more naturalistic art style?
Mark in TTown: The darkest spot near our home is our back deck… but I’ve got to convince the who lives lady behind us to either turn off her kitchen light or let us give her some curtains! I don’t know what sort of bulb she’s using, but the shadows we cast on the side of our house from it are deeper and more distinct than those from the full moon.
lady who lives behind us…
Yeah, it doesn’t take much light to ruin viewing in an otherwise completely dark area. In my case, we had a house with no other houses behind, just woods, and our deck was angled away from the houses on either side.
Debbe, sorry to hear about your illness and the fall. Please take care of yourself.
Here’s some cat things to help you laugh it off.
http://www.guy-sports.com/funny/funny_cat_sayings.htm
Here’s some more Debbe: http://thumbpress.com/lol-cats-50-awesomely-funny-cat-photos-to-crack-you-up/
Some of those are classic, M/TT. Thanks.
Sometimes even experts are fooled by decoys…
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46233484&nid=1017
But it didn’t pass the sniff test.
Glad you liked those toom curmudgeonly ex-p
Good night to all.
Mark the cats were FUNNY! I laughed out loud.
Got my last chemo infusion of the highly toxic cocktail. I am done with this one. My blood work was great but I wasn’t feeling too great but we finished by reduction of dosage.
In three weeks we begin a three month regime of weekly chemo infusions here in Tulsa.
My appetite is back with a rush. I had potato soup and a terrible Subway sub in the infusion center. We got back to hotel and are a Haghen Daaz Tres Leches Dulce Leche carton.
Then we ordered a vegetarian pizza from a locally owned mountain pizzeria. We are going to eat the other half for breakfast.
Ok, Hal is back. We Have a few hills in Tulsa but no mountains.