Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 01, 2017

I remember this scene from when the world was still in black and white.

It seems like only yesterday.

Come to think of it, it was yesterday.

So JVA is taking some time to go back and color some of his older strips. It’s very welcome! Those of us following Cleo and Company may have seen some of them not so long ago.

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.

The kentucky head hunters Sang it for me. I Iike my women a little on the trashy side.

On the right are samples of various brocolli and brussel sprout cuisine.

Stuff is stuff.

Don’t know about the good stuff, but I’ve seen a lot of the trashy stuff on TV. And wait! If you pay another $19.95 in S&H, you can get some more identical trashy stuff!

Just what I need…more Stuff !

Thats about right!

Stan can’t figure out where the Maui Wowie is…

You can’t get good stuff anymore. My first microwave oven lasted 30 years. The next two lasted just past the one year warranty. The fourth had a (twice) correctable problem with the flimsy support for the door switches – which first appeared just after a year of service.I just replaced a griddle that served well for over 6 years before the non-stick wore off. The same make/model replacement (now made in China of thinner material) started warping almost immediately. And on it goes.

I can hear my old English teacher cringing from here! “What do you mean stuff? Stuff is what you fill armchairs with!”

This IS an old comic. There’s a kid in the crowd, even though he’s got gray hair.