A quick search of instances of the word “corset” in newspapers on September 20, 1987, gives us a clue: It makes me curious to know how this strip looked in the paper in ’87. I find this fascinating - it means that someone, at some point, recolored it. The version of this strip on has more realistic pants and sidewalk color choices… but it also gives the Arbuckle house a purple floor.
#Comic book palette archive#
On, Twitter, Jim here replied with an observation that the current version of this strip in the Garfield online archive features different coloring: One thing Garfield doesn’t get enough recognition for is truly bonkers, impressionistic color choices. I posted all about it on Twitter yesterday, and thought I would record my thoughts here, too, for the record. Reading them again now, I came to notice things I had never noticed before. I’d read and loved these particular strips as a kid, but haven’t revisited them much in the many years since. Honestly, I consider this period the creative zenith of the strip it’s the sensibility that led directly to the Saturday-morning cartoon, which in my opinion still holds up. We’ve been reading specifically late-80’s strips, since those are the books we have handy.
He’s too young to really follow the narratives - after every strip he pauses, asks what happened, and then says, slowly and calmly, “Why” - but he’s already very fond of the drawings and characters.
I’ve been reading Garfield comics with my son this week.
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