Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 15, 2007

Oh Cleo, Cleo, Cleo. You don’t even want to think about the whole crew in the flue….

Ratfink! Where have you been, old buddy?

I think that tree needs some glitter. Don’t you, Stel? Susan?

Don’t even think about swiping the holiday treats, Cleo….

There’s a spy in the pecan pie….

CIA moles in the doughnut holes…

Those guys in the Christmas cookies may be rookies…

but not that snake in the Noel cake.

There’s no guard on Aunt Clothilde’s fruitcake, though….

yeah, that’s what we thought.

BTW Dennis…

Love to do that for ya….

but animations work by shifting between “layers”… ie, pictures that are a bit different from each other…

Glitter is also animation, so adding it later gives erratic results.

I did it with the Radio City Music Hall Bassettes…

It looked good… ( to me, anyway) ….

but it changed their tempo.

It’s OK with dancers in repetitive motion…

with this beautifully animated storyline, not so much.

Better watch the canary from Glengarry too. It might be drunk as a skunk, but it can sing like a …. thing that can sing a lot to Santa or Santa’s elves or Mrs. Santa or Robert Mueller or the GoComics’ Underlords or ….

P.S. My favorite part was purply ornaments at the bottom of the tree.

What’s next? The turd in the toilet?

nighthawks, you may like today’s Eek comic strip.

I LOVE Cleo’s halo! If ever anyone deserves a halo, it is our pal Cleo! She is totally innocent. All the time! Why, she would NEVER think of doing something like that. Egads, and she only figured there was that snitch in the microwave.

You have to watch out for the mole in the profiterole, the poodle in the snickerdoodle, & the stoolie in the patchouli.

WOW! I feel like I got a lot of extras for my money today. Great animation and great story. Cleo you are an angel in my book. And you got the crowd here being very creative also.

Okay, I honestly didn’t remember this one when I posted “fink in the sink” last week!

Awesome as always. I see there’s no Ballard St. for 12/16/07. Continue here tomorrow?

OK, we’re baaaack. Cleo’s tricky this time, changing up those little nuances like that.

So we can keep punning? Like the tattler in the atelier?

Or the squealer in the … ok I give up. Kneeler would work, but Cleo is always good when she goes to church.

OK…. here we go….

Here’s your side by side….

and it’s the Saturday puzzle…. on Saturday!

https://s7.postimg.org/q3y3hsk63/Cleo_nine_differences_Dec_16th_17.png

Well, seeing as how I don’t have to wait for tomorrow I’ll post the solution for Saturday’s Cleo & Co. puzzle today.

https://s5.postimg.org/rre5thhef/Cleo20171216.gif

And peeking is a no no. Remember the narc in the dark and the ratfink in the sink are watching you.

there were some times in my life that I would have appreciated the option to just ‘skip’a day

Lou, Lou,

skip to my Lou…..

At this time of year, I would like to add a day. Why can’t I be one of those people who has all their Christmas presents bought and wrapped by August??

Well, this looks like a Mexican Stand-off between Clara and Cleo. Cleo looks so innocent. Dogs don’t know the calendar so maybe he thought it was Christmas already. Give him a break.

I found all the differences, but didn’t time myself.

Just know we all appreciate everything you do, nighthawks and StelBel.

Oh lookie, Cleo received a package of home made chocolate and bacon covered kibble!!! Lucky girl. And she just had to open them because they smelled so good! You wouldn’t want them to spoil, would you?

I got all 9!!!! I got all 9!!!! Thanks, NH for giving us an easy one for a change!

I’ll echo PC’s sentiment…..we want you both to know how much we appreciate all your hard work and wonderful talents, nighthawks and StelBel.

As always, thanks to Susan and x for making these Saturday puzzles easier.

8!!! I think Cleo ate the last one! will the comments page be back to normal tomorrow???