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I loved Saturday's strip. A few days after my daughter started Grade 1 she came home and announced that she wanted to go back to kindergarden. When asked why she replied "They are making us work way too hard." The son of school teacher friends of ours cried every morning of the first month of grade 1. Then one morning he asked how long he had to go to school. His older sister replied "100 years". He accepted his life sentence, stopped crying and went to school.
He is now an elementary school teacher. Turns out his sister was right.
Linda, Vernon, BC, Canada
Why is Mike's teacher using a blackboard? Blackboards are hardly ever used these days. Whiteboards are much more common.
Emily G, Montreal, QC, Canada
I have loved your strip since I was a kid, but lost track of it while in the military. I have recently found your website and I try to check it everyday to see the current strip. Every now and then I get a glance at the newspaper, and I noticed yesterday that the newspaper printed all the comics in color, even though it was a weekday. However, on your site the weekday strips are black and white. Why the difference, and why does the site not display all the strips in color? Thank you!
Kristin D, Clarksville, TN, USA
The daily strips are delivered to the newspapers in black and white. Coloring is a costly and time consuming process which is why the artists only color the Sunday pages. This was a tradition- stemming from the early printing processes which, again were costly and difficult. With newer methods of production, individual papers have recently decided to color the daily comics, and so they do it "in house". That is to say, they do it themselves. This has resulted in some interesting situations as clothing, backgrounds and even people appear in different colors in different papers!
Some artists are coloring their on-line comics, but we have stayed true to the classic look, which I prefer, actually. Some things are just best left unchanged!
Lynn J.
I have followed FBOFW ever since it started running in the Chicago Tribune and I haul my laptop with on vacations so I can keep up. I see our family life in each strip one way or another, and the feelings shown always seem to echo my own. Hope it never disappears!
Barbara M, Joliet, IL, USA