4063: Colourist is being a bit lazy
| Colourist is being a bit lazy |
 Made by: Destructible Watermelon |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip and its author's notes makes fun of coloring errors that have plagued this strip from time to time, no matter which archive one looks at; the author's notes takes a few examples of prior Square Root of Minus Garfield strips--in particular, 273: Night Garfield, 355: Blue Mouse Group, 983: The colourist - unaware or more aware than us all?, and 1300: Falling Garfield Fixed--going out of their way to fix those errors. An editor's note after the author's notes proper makes mention of differences between the garfield.com archive (which had infamously been taken down within the month prior to this strip being published, but was presumably still up at time of submission) and the archive hosted on the now-busted images.ucomics.com domain (its secure-domain mirror, picayune.uclick.com, is still available); #273 and #355's original strips saw late corrections to the garfield.com versions prior to the archive's takedown and thus differences still persist, #983's original strip was apparently always correct on garfield.com but not on other archives, and #1300's original strip at present has no discernable differences between the archives.
This strip's corresponding original Garfield strip does not show any signs of the large amount of gray objects being an actual coloring error; it is less likely to be, as the original Garfield strip is a Sunday strip and thus colorization choices would likely not have been applied as an afterthought unlike with weekday strips, though differences between archives still exist due to differences in treatment in color between archives (the former garfield.com archive for this strips corresponding original Garfield strip has brighter colors than other archives, presumably due to differences in color treatment).
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
The colourist has made mess ups multiple times; sometimes we've fixed them and displayed them on SRoMG*. However, in this comic, it was just annoying laziness rather than comic ruining. It's definitely disappointing that Jim actually put effort into making this comic visually interesting, before the colourist just decided to make everything chrome...
[*Interestingly, for all four of these SRoMGs, the strips.garfield.com versions of the images are correctly coloured, though the incorrect images.ucomics.com versions are still visible. Ed]
Original strip: 2011-06-12.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Garfield: Hmmm...
Garfield: I saw Jon hide a box of cat treats in here
{Garfield removes some stuff from a cupboard}
Garfield: What a pack rat! how much stuff is down here?
{removing more stuff}
Garfield: He should know better than to hide anything from me
{removing more stuff}
Garfield: I'm a cat... supreme cunning and unparalleled resolve, and...
{removing more stuff}
Garfield: wait...
{there is now a pile of stuff, all dully coloured grey}
Garfield: We need to fire the colourist
