Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 03, 2019

True

Shades of gray are important – just don’t be one of those who ’don’t see color’, as well.

Normally when people walk into a building, they see lots of colors.

But I guess that’s not what she meant.

S/He who has ears, let them hear!

And maybe try to see more than 50.

Give your eyes, brain and glasses time to adjust, girl.

This whole arc is grey.

Excellent lesson.

Sooooo many ways to read that one.

Sounds like a good idea for a song.

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.” – William JamesThe same can be said of grays . . .

Plus, walk into a warm building backwards when you wear glasses to solve the fog problem. Learned attending frat parties in frigid upstate New York.

I live within that gray area. Folks who insist that things are either Black or White are only artificially limiting their possibilities.

A Whiter Shade of Pale ;)

She really needs to have her glasses modernized… get the type that can project an augmented-reality image, generated by a high-powered embedded supercomputer with IR and sonar sensors. She could “see” under any conditions at all…

… but only in 50 shades of Cray.

Which explains why her eyes disappears from her glasses.

Excellent, Mr. Mallett…most excellent.

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Shading my pictures the way I do it, with hand-drawn parallel lines overlaid by another layer or more of semi-perpendicular accent lines, is kind of time-consuming. Which doesn’t sound terribly smart, given how much I struggle with available time. Sometimes I ask myself why I do it. Surely I can tell the same stories with a little less visual depth and complexity.

I do it for you guys, of course. My readers deserve my best effort. And it’s a way of competing — of course we compete — with other features. But do I do it just for you guys?

But then, after years of doing it that way, I finally come up with a punch line like today’s, and maybe I just gave myself my best explanation yet. I’m just a great big believer in gray.

His style is at its best now. The lines are important and with the added help of good coloration we get to see some of the shades between absolute white and absolute black.

Interesting discussion, but not the one I suspect Jef hoped to start. Jef, this one will go down alongside such other great strips such as “Noise almost always precedes illumination.” (Caulfield’s line when Frazz asked him how he remembered Edison invented the phonograph before the lightbulb.)

Interesting discussion, but not the one I suspect Jef hoped to start. Jef, this one will go down alongside such other great strips such as “Noise almost always precedes illumination.” (Caulfield’s line when Frazz asked him how he remembered Edison invented the phonograph before the lightbulb.)