[Hi and Lois, May 16, 2017. Click for a larger view.]
The wall line above Lois’s head in the second panel suggests that the Flagstons’ front door is located just a foot or two from the house’s corner. We know from exterior shots that the door will not be found there.
But what really delights me in today’s strip: those windows. They must switch places whenever the door opens or closes.
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[Post title with apologies to Aldous Huxley.]
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
The perception of doors
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Why do you think there are all these errors? Just carelessness, or is it something in the way the comic is produced?
ReplyDeleteI’ve been wondering about that for years. I know that a number of people work on the strip — that might account for some of the discrepancies, like furniture disappearing between panels. Sometimes I think that Hi-Lo Amalgamated is pulling a Slylock Fox on me. :)
ReplyDeleteOne of the strip’s artists commented on this post.
Oh! So fun to read the cartoonist's comment--
ReplyDeleteit seems sad to me that a cartoonist can't make a living drawing Mark Trail...
Or that Mark Trail couldn’t really make a living writing for Woods and Wildlife magazine.
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