4523: Garfield Plus Socks

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Garfield Plus Socks
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Made by: bc56


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This version takes the original strip as then linked to from the Square Root of Minus Garfield site (the now-busted unsecured "images.ucomics.com" domain; its secure-domain mirror is still available here) and recolors Jon's socks so they don't match his skin to fix a coloring mistake.

The editor's note in the author's notes reveals the reason why the ucomics/uclick archive's version, and also that of the GoComics archive the original strip credit currently links to (GoComics's medium-size strip archives only begin within the main Garfield feature on 1995-01-01, and even then have their own coloring issues as explained in the explanation for 5399: Color me Garfield; GoComics's now-discontinued Garfield Classics collection extended the presence of medium-size strips to between the strip's beginning until 1985-11-22's strip after which the collection was discontinued on 2023-12-01, but the Garfield Classics strip images are still available to access directly due to several GoComics Garfield features making use of them), could even be considered a coloring mistake to begin with--the former garfield.com website's version (archived by the Garfield wiki on Fandom here) did have Jon wear distinctly-colored socks, which would presumably extend to Garfield Pulls His Weight: His 26th Book as well.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I saw this and couldn't help but notice a coloring mistake*. So I fixed it.

Changing the color of Jon's feet took me way too long to figure out.

[*The version available via the original strip link below shows the colouring mistake, although the version available on the old Garfield website did not have it. -Ed]

Original strip: 1993-09-10.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Garfield: Ah, the traditional family around the hearth
{Jon is reclining and wearing socks}
Jon: YAAAH!
Garfield: Followed by the traditional "flaming socks dance"
Jon: OOH! AAH! OOCH! YAH!