Monday, June 20, 2005, 7:16:57 AM, DagT wrote: D> Try Calvin and Hobbes. I think it was in the "Scientific progress goes D> Boink" album
Ah, of course :) I haven't read these at all, don't take them for granted here much, so that's made me confuse it... When you don't grow up with it, there isn't much cult status to it. John Francis posted it a while ago, I will quote him here without permission :-) JF> JF> I finally found the Calvin & Hobbes strip I'd been looking for. JF> It's in Scientific Progress goes "Boink" (on page 23, for JF> those Robert Rankin fans among us ...) JF> JF> JF> Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? JF> Didn't they have colour film back then? JF> JF> Dad: Sure they did. In fact those old photographs *are* in JF> colour. It's just the *world* was black and white then. JF> JF> Calvin: Really? JF> JF> Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the JF> 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too. JF> JF> Calvin: That's really weird. JF> JF> Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction. JF> JF> Calvin: But then why are old *paintings* in color? If the world was JF> black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way? JF> JF> Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane. JF> JF> Calvin: But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't JF> their paints have been shades of grey back then? JF> JF> Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did JF> in the '30s. JF> JF> Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too? JF> JF> Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
