Most cartoonists don’t color their own strips, except for Sundays.
Traditionally, they’re run in black and white six days a week….
but in recent years modern printing presses, and the internet, both created a demand for color dailies….
So the publishers started hiring colorists… they’re low-paid and very part time, but they’ve made a huge difference….
Now everyone expects a color cartoon.
If you go back in the archives, Ballard St isn’t in color till sometime in 2011, except for Sundays, while JVA still produced them….
So when a 2007 strip is repeated, like this one, it’s sent out to be colored….
no doubt by the same person who colors the new Ballard St dailies.
As Dennis and I have both mentioned, lately, we fans of Cleo and Company,
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy
have no place to comment about it on Sherpa….
so we go to the Ballard St strip, ten years ago to the day…
ie, today we’re on
http://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2007/12/01
On November 1st, we saw (and some, like me, commented on) this strip, on its first run, in black and white,
while we made our comments on the Nov. 1st 2017 Cleo.
Most cartoonists don’t color their own strips, except for Sundays.
Traditionally, they’re run in black and white six days a week….
but in recent years modern printing presses, and the internet, both created a demand for color dailies….
So the publishers started hiring colorists… they’re low-paid and very part time, but they’ve made a huge difference….
Now everyone expects a color cartoon.
If you go back in the archives, Ballard St isn’t in color till sometime in 2011, except for Sundays, while JVA still produced them….
So when a 2007 strip is repeated, like this one, it’s sent out to be colored….
no doubt by the same person who colors the new Ballard St dailies.
As Dennis and I have both mentioned, lately, we fans of Cleo and Company,
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy
have no place to comment about it on Sherpa….
so we go to the Ballard St strip, ten years ago to the day…
ie, today we’re on
http://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2007/12/01
On November 1st, we saw (and some, like me, commented on) this strip, on its first run, in black and white,
while we made our comments on the Nov. 1st 2017 Cleo.