Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 07, 2018

imagining Gracie in final panel is like 1920s or something?

Gracie the quick-change artist.

Wow, Gracie looks really nice as a modern adult.

I have one of those! It was a grad gift when I graduated high school in 1955. It wasn"t new , but it made no difference to me.

I was thinking more 1940’s. Good luck finding or erasure ribbon.

I remember using one of those back in 1998. So… it definitely isn’t that old.

I have very fond memories learning to write on an old manual Olympia but I love my computer and word processor today. So much more you can do. Same with digital photography.

A few years ago, due to Hurricane Charlie, I was without electricity for over a week and stranded due to flooded roads. I was facing a deadline that couldn’t be postponed. Thankfully, I still had my old Olivetti portable typewriter that I’d schlepped around since high school.

By the time I had the piece typed and proofed, the water had subsided enough that I could slog out and find a place that had power and internet, because I still had to scan all the pages and email the project in order to meet the due date.Sometimes the old fashioned methods work…sometimes they don’t !

Well, it is ancient

Must be Tia Carman’s typewriter

The typewriter looks like it’s from the 1920’s, Gracie’s outfit looks like 1930’s or 1940’s, so “about right” is about right. Of course, in 1940 she might very well have been using a 20 year old typewriter…

Very clever cartoon, by the way.

If she starts talking like Rosalind Russell, call the doctor. Or call a Hollywood agent, if you prefer.

Good red lipstick Gracie!

Probably the most useful elective I ever took in high school or college was typing.

I worked for the space program in the early 1980s, and used one of those to fill out forms – not in triplicate, oh no, we had to do EIGHT copies, all typed at the same time with carbon paper. NEVER AGAIN! Actually, I’d like to find one, they’re really collectible.

One of the smarter things I’ve done in my life was to take the typing class in high school (early 70’s). Turning in typed, instead of hand written, work greatly improved the grades in all my other classes and it’s a skill I’ve used my entire adult life… right up to and including now 8^)

This reminds me of Rose is Rose where the adult characters are drawn as being whatever age they feel. I remember Rose once ate some candy to turn into Little Rosie so that she could fit behind the couch and vacuum the carpet. When she was done, she ate a pickled pepper to turn back into an adult, but it was a jalapeño so she turned into Vickie, her biker girl persona, instead.

It’ll strengthen your hands.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.