Even as he pays lip service to Cayla’s “amazing” wedding scheme, Les searches for any excuse to get out of having it at his house (or perhaps having it at all?). October in Ohio can indeed spell “dicey” weather for such an event. Of course, Cayla’s had plenty of time to think this through while her betrothed was off on his mountain trek.
Cayla’s perpetually changing, often franky weird appearance (and the snark it has inspired from you guys) sent me off on a little tangent regarding persons of color in the funnies. Does anyone remember a relatively short-lived strip called Dateline: Danger? It ran from 1968 till 1974, and was about the adventures of two daring reporters, one white and one black: it was one of the first newspaper comics to feature a black leading character. The artist was Alden McWilliams, who got his start illustrating pulp mags before moving into newspaper funnies.
I remember as a kid being intrigued by the dramatic, theatrical shading McWilliams (a white male) used when drawing Danny Raven (ha) and other darkly complected characters. Never relying on halftone dots, McWilliams used solid tones and actual African facial characteristics to convincingly portray his black characters. Just shows it can be done, TB.
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