DOUBLE DATE FROM HELL

TROUBLESOME TRIPLETS

SAD-EYED SKELETON UNDERNEATH A RED MOON

TOOTHY

MEN BEHAVING BADLY

Lyndon Johnson.

NEW SITCOM: THE PROFESSOR AND THE PROSTITUTE

ASPIRATIONAL TO A FAULT

MESSAGE FROM MICHELLE

RUDDY COMPLEXION

GOLDEN GIRL

FAKE GUITAR PLAYERS

Ed Sullivan.

NEXT STOP, HOLLYWOOD

OPTIMISM QUIZ

SIDELONG GLANCE

BAD SCIENCE FICTION

STRINGY HAIR ALERT

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES

Debbie Harry.

MY COLORIST'S APPROACH TO TAKING A DAY OFF

Then there was the time my colorist apparently just took the day off:

{Maybe he did me a favor.)

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO FIXING MY MISTAKES

Everybody makes mistakes. It would be nice if when I make one (like the missing patch of black below the bottom word balloon), my colorist would fix it for me:

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO READING THE COMICS HE COLORIZES

My colorist took the yellow he saved on smiley faces and YIELD signs and put it into this T-shirt. The problem is, the doctor is talking about Rolf's WHITE T-shirt. My colorist once actually confessed to me that he doesn't always READ the comics that he colorizes:

 

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO COMMONLY-HELD COLOR ASSUMPTIONS

I would say most people think of a smiley face as being yellow. Not everybody:

Same thing with a YIELD sign:

MY FUSCO COLORISTS APPROACH TO HAIR

And then there was the period when Lars and Rolf were bleach blondes:

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO LIPS

Tan lips sink ships:

(Actually, this color could have worked on the haggis.)

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO HAGGIS

The old gray haggis, she ain't what she used to be:

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO WHISKEY

Sometimes it looks like dishwater:

On a good day, it's merely watered down:

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO BEER IN A FISHBOWL

Pale yellow, no head:

(Fish hate flat beer.)

MY FUSCO COLORIST'S APPROACH TO BEER

For years I've been battling to get my Fusco Brothers colorist to make the color of the beer in the daily strips, which he colors, match the color of the beer in the Sunday stops, which I color. Here's my beer color in a Sunday strip:

Too often, this has been the beer color in a daily strip:

It's actually NO color. It just has the dot pattern added to dailies by me. Sometimes this lack of color extends to cocktails:

Sometimes it extends to wine:

Sometimes it doesn't extend to wine:

Sometimes he adds a very LIGHT yellow to the beer:

Sometimes he goes the other way and adds a very DARK yellow to the beer:

In fairness, I must admit that in the most recent strip featuring beer, he got it right:

BAD HAIR HALL OF FAME

Basil Rathbone.

GHOSTS IN THE PARK

PEOPLE IN THE PARK

YOU CAN'T EXPERIENCE ANNOYANCE

MEN BEHAVING BADLY

Pablo Picasso.

MY CARTOON IN THIS WEEK'S AIR MAIL

SUNGLASSES HALL OF FAME

Angela Lansbury.

CARTOON COINCIDENCES

THE GIRL FROM THE PASTEL MOUNTAINS