At the time this firs ran, she was. I usually redraw parts of the strips from this period, but I was in a hurry, so this slipped by. I was mostly looking at the snowman.
Much the way both Calvin, and Linus before him, built crowds of snowmen without leaving any bare patches in the snow. What was on the ground always looked untouched.
This, unfortunately, was a period in the strip where Elizabeth started to look so much like Connie, it could be hard to tell them apart. Glad Connie’s name was used in this one.
Some people say that tan and orange are different shades of the same color- tan being a dull orange. I don’t know about that, but I read a whole thing about how brown ’doesn’t exist’ because it’s only dark orange. Well, even if you want to call it a shade of orange, brown does exist.
According to legend, the tan ones replaced earlier purple ones. Well, even I’m not old enough to have seen purple. As to why they had to eliminate one to add one, I don’t know. But the tan were my favorite.
“Then the fur” may be a typo, but “How went” is a legitimate colloquialism. Not proper grammar, but an accepted form of abbreviating sentences in speech. The old fashioned “How’s tricks” wasn’t entirely correct either, but people used it.
You have understand that comics dialogue is not like an essay or a business letter. I doesn’t no depend on proper grammar at all times. Characters can speak in slang and lazy formations, as people in real life will.
At the time this firs ran, she was. I usually redraw parts of the strips from this period, but I was in a hurry, so this slipped by. I was mostly looking at the snowman.