Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 15, 2015
July 14, 2015
July 16, 2015
Transcript:
Janis: I'm buying a coloring book! Of course, I'll need crayons! Arlo: Imagine your luck! Janis: I was very good at coloring when I was a girl! Janis: I NEVER got outside the lines! Arlo: You should have studied art! Janis: You know, I have ALWAYS thought that!
Y’know, one of the most gripeful things to happen in my education days occurred when an art teacher in the third grade had us draw and color an actual model (in this case it was a plum, so don’t get all silly). (I went to Hillsdale Elementary School in Dormont, Pittsburgh, and even in the earliest grades we went to different classrooms for different subjects.) After I drew and colored the plum with what I regarded as subtle variations in hue, I took a crayon and colored the entire background in blaring, blatant, blazing red! Layers and layers of it. To my third-grade eye, it was magnificent!
Guess what – the teacher made me do the plum over again, without the red background! I was so mad. I knew even then that my artistic integrity was being violated. Hmmmpf.