Pickles by Brian Crane for April 08, 2024

White crayons are used for secret spy messages.

We used to color hard with the white over other shades, for variety.

We used white crayons for snow and clouds…

Coupla months ago I was in a Dollar Tree and spotted a box of “flesh color” crayons. Through the cutout on the front of the box, they were all the same shade of pale beige, and I thought to myself “someone completely missed the point”.

However, when I bought them (to show to friends) and opened the top of the box, it was just the paper sleeve of each crayon that was “caucasian” in color; the crayons themselves were a full assortment off human skin tones. Nicely done!

I don’t remember ever seeing a white one.

Roscoe liked it, he’s even smiling!

Where do they rank on the Marine list of favorite flavors?

Tastes like chicken.

I was unhappy when Crayola changed it’s 12-pack of Colored Pencils from: Red, Red Orange, Orange, Yellow, Yellow Green, Green, Sky Blue or Light Blue, Blue, Purple or Violet, Black, Brown or Dark Brown, and Light Brown or Tan …

… to Red, Red Orange, Orange, Yellow, Yellow Green, Green, Sky Blue or Light Blue, Blue, Purple or Violet, Black, Brown, and White.

I wanted camouflage crayons, but could never find them.

I’m rather surprised some people haven’t yet made this a political campaign issue. “Hues Shall Not Replace Us!”

A white crayon is just as bad as a black person going for a tattoo.

I was the skinny kid that never got picked. Except I didn’t wear glasses. Now I wear glasses, I’m not a kid, and I’m anything but skinny. And I still don’t get picked.

Different white than the paper. Like the subtle color swatches for white paint. Perhaps a whole box of shades of white? (with sharpener) Or really big ones to prep your paper like painters prep their canvas.

You can do a Malevich, “White on White.” Real art. I buy a box of crayons from time to time, mostly for the aroma.

Marines will think they’re vanilla flavored

My white crayon masterpiece was a polar bear in a snowstorm at the north pole.

Yummmmmmm……. white wax……. Mmmmmmm……

Roscoe has a plan to lighten the color of his poop.

Not P.C. Too white!

I’m sure that’s not good for Roscoe’s digestion.

Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip – by a COUNTRY MILE!!! 8^D

They’re for designs where you don’t want the dye to stick on Easter eggs.

Good ole Roscoe……

Ask Bill Gates how his life is now. Not being picked for game was ok with me.

At least his poo won’t be a funny color.

We scribbled it down to flatten the point, peeled off the paper and used them for pretend cigarettes. (This was in the 50s when EVERYBODY smoked.)

Physicists know white is a combination of red, green, and blue and use them to create magenta, cyan, and yellow. Now, I just need a few prisms.

In all his years he’s never seen black construction paper?

I miss the old box of crayola 64 names.

I always felt ripped off that Binney & Smith include that darned white crayon. Gimme a REAL color, Crayola!

Small victories are still victories.

LOL.. the dog ate the crayon. Tool funny.

Roscoe must be a Marine.

Just get some coloured paper especially black and use them on that.

He may be dropping some strange-looking deuces later.

My guitar always gets picked to play.

I saw a package of crayons recently that was only “flesh tones” – about 20 different shades. Progress!

Don’t want to be around when that comes out the other end.

Don’t worry. It will all come out in the end.

Must be the beef fat.

Yeah, I was that kid.

When I was a kid, se used white crayons on white paper to create “invisible messages.” To reveal them, you brushlver them with watercolor paint (or what qualifies as watercolors in those kiddie art kits).

Of course, they never turned out perfect, because we could barely see what we were writing.