115: Trichromatic Garfield
| Trichromatic Garfield |
 Made by: Henning Makholm |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The idea is sufficiently explained in the author's note; however, the strip itself demonstrates why this isn't done: it's very hard to read, only in part because a reader might not realize what order to read the colors in, even though the order follows the list in the CMYK color model used in printing.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Like many other "funny" newspaper strips, the colour in Garfield seldom really adds value to the joke. It seems that colour is just added as an afterthought, because surely the newspapers did not invest in full-colour-on-every-page capable offset machines just to run monochrome line art!
However, for a strip that does not really need colour for its artistic message, we could put the colour process to better use, to wit, saving paper by printing three panels of line art in the space of one.
In this strip from 2004-04-16, the first panel is in cyan ink, the second in magenta and the third in yellow.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Garfield: I could go for a 57-course meal.
Jon: You need to go on a diet.
Garfield: 56?
