Another repeat.Same-size-as-clicking-here image, of this 12×15 painting, can be found here, or at the only work, by the artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.The Reading is privately owned (small detail image, Google translated). The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection.
According to other posters, the issue has been fixed.I am no expert myself, just relaying what I have read.Administration seems to be responsive to readers inquiries about such issues and, also, “xtech” and “TheOldWolf” seem to be very knowledgeable in this area.
They hang out at “Frog Applause” alot, among other places.
Again already with Bro. Gregory? Thousands of artists, millions of masterworks, and already with the reruns? How about some Alma-Tademas, some Lord Leightons, some Bougereaus? Come on, Melcher!!
Since there’s no strip again today (written 2/9/13), I’ll bore you with an explanation of my prior comment.If you already didn’t know, when you hit the SUBMIT button, whatever you have entered, in the Comment on this Strip box, is parsed (for bold face, italics, font size, …, whatever) and turned into HTML (an acronym for HyperText Markup Language, the language your browser understands), so it can be properly displayed.The easiest way to see what it generated is to view the Page Source of your profile page (what your ID link points to in the generated comment); because currently only the first 15 comments (used to be 20, so it may be less in the future) show up in the Page Source of the page where the comment is posted. The Page Source location varies from browser to browser; searching the browser’s Help for Page Source or Develop usually finds how to display it.Alphanumeric (unless they’re an acronym), common sentence punctuation, and some other characters pass through without modification; but some, which may be surprising, are modified:
*bold* becomes <strong>bold</strong>_italic_ becomes <em>italic</em>I'm becomes I’m"quotes" becomes “quotes”…where in the last 2 examples, a character is replaced by its HTML Number (up to 4 digits preceded by &# and ending with a semicolon, italicized here for emphasis).So why is that important? (you may ask) Well, Monday, try as I might, I couldn’t get my comment to post, for over an hour.As you may have suspected, I use a lot of HTML in my comments.From time to time, I make a mistake and only a partial comment, the portion that’s syntactically correct, will be posted (which I immediately delete, and set about fixing).But on Monday, nothing.Last February, I had been banned — I could see my comments, but no one else could; and at first I thought this was a super banning — not even I could read my comments. But then I tried a simple test post, and it showed up immediately.Already too long story, short: it turned out, the problem was the è in (Michel) Eugène Chevreul, one of identified figures in that painting. When I looked at it in an HTML editor, the è showed as è instead.If the editor couldn’t handle it, maybe that was the problem the GoComics parser was having. When I replaced the è with è (give the parser what it should automatically generate), its HTML Number, the comment posted immediately.According to was @ИОМЯОМ‘s profile, this now fixed glitch kept him from posting for quite some time. If, instead of using the actual Cyrillic characters in his ID, he had used the respective HTML Numbers, he wouldn’t have had a problem.Just letting you know what to try if the glitch reappears and keeps your comment from posting.Of course, sometimes the GoComics servers are slow, and that may also keep a comment from posting — not a sufficient condition.
margueritem about 11 years ago
It brings a grin to his weathered face.
el8 about 11 years ago
Looks like his tin foil cap is quite tarnished.
Linguist about 11 years ago
Oh that Odie, he’s such a wag !
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
Isn’t this a repeater, again?
finale about 11 years ago
This is a run of re-runs; which is OK but how about a few of the ones with more human anatomy on display?
mabrndt Premium Member about 11 years ago
Another repeat.Same-size-as-clicking-here image, of this 12×15 painting, can be found here, or at the only work, by the artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.The Reading is privately owned (small detail image, Google translated). The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection.
Call me Ishmael about 11 years ago
Oy vey – it’s Anime!!
J Short about 11 years ago
Getting off on the underwear section of the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. (off on?)
J Short about 11 years ago
Glad I’m not computer savvy; I might have ended up trying to do something.
6turtle9 about 11 years ago
According to other posters, the issue has been fixed.I am no expert myself, just relaying what I have read.Administration seems to be responsive to readers inquiries about such issues and, also, “xtech” and “TheOldWolf” seem to be very knowledgeable in this area.
They hang out at “Frog Applause” alot, among other places.
iced tea about 11 years ago
Maybe it’s a Peanuts comic collection he’s reading. He can learn a lot about theology from them.
Rickapolis about 11 years ago
It seems that ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ would be more to his liking.
Call me Ishmael about 11 years ago
Again already with Bro. Gregory? Thousands of artists, millions of masterworks, and already with the reruns? How about some Alma-Tademas, some Lord Leightons, some Bougereaus? Come on, Melcher!!
Calvins Brother about 11 years ago
I think that’s the Calvin and Hobbs 3 volume set. He’s up to the part about Calvins snowmen.
puddlesplatt about 11 years ago
That looks like my Potty chair!
mabrndt Premium Member about 11 years ago
Since there’s no strip again today (written 2/9/13), I’ll bore you with an explanation of my prior comment.If you already didn’t know, when you hit the SUBMIT button, whatever you have entered, in the Comment on this Strip box, is parsed (for bold face, italics, font size, …, whatever) and turned into HTML (an acronym for HyperText Markup Language, the language your browser understands), so it can be properly displayed.The easiest way to see what it generated is to view the Page Source of your profile page (what your ID link points to in the generated comment); because currently only the first 15 comments (used to be 20, so it may be less in the future) show up in the Page Source of the page where the comment is posted. The Page Source location varies from browser to browser; searching the browser’s Help for Page Source or Develop usually finds how to display it.Alphanumeric (unless they’re an acronym), common sentence punctuation, and some other characters pass through without modification; but some, which may be surprising, are modified:
*bold* becomes <strong>bold</strong>_italic_ becomes <em>italic</em>I'm becomes I’m"quotes" becomes “quotes”…where in the last 2 examples, a character is replaced by its HTML Number (up to 4 digits preceded by &# and ending with a semicolon, italicized here for emphasis).So why is that important? (you may ask) Well, Monday, try as I might, I couldn’t get my comment to post, for over an hour.As you may have suspected, I use a lot of HTML in my comments.From time to time, I make a mistake and only a partial comment, the portion that’s syntactically correct, will be posted (which I immediately delete, and set about fixing).But on Monday, nothing.Last February, I had been banned — I could see my comments, but no one else could; and at first I thought this was a super banning — not even I could read my comments. But then I tried a simple test post, and it showed up immediately.Already too long story, short: it turned out, the problem was the è in (Michel) Eugène Chevreul, one of identified figures in that painting. When I looked at it in an HTML editor, the è showed as è instead.If the editor couldn’t handle it, maybe that was the problem the GoComics parser was having. When I replaced the è with è (give the parser what it should automatically generate), its HTML Number, the comment posted immediately.According to was @ИОМЯОМ‘s profile, this now fixed glitch kept him from posting for quite some time. If, instead of using the actual Cyrillic characters in his ID, he had used the respective HTML Numbers, he wouldn’t have had a problem.Just letting you know what to try if the glitch reappears and keeps your comment from posting.Of course, sometimes the GoComics servers are slow, and that may also keep a comment from posting — not a sufficient condition.