Comments on: Do the people who colorize comics EVER read the damn things?

By: Lawrence Fechtenberger

Lawrence Fechtenberger — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:49:08 +0000

I should add: Paramount was especially sensitive about this, because it had then recently had to pay Leonard Nimoy a lot of money for letting his image as Spock be used in a beer ad without getting his permission first.

Yes, I know: No one is more pathetic than someone who spouts STAR TREK trivia.

By: Lawrence Fechtenberger

Lawrence Fechtenberger — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:45:56 +0000

Powers–Those STAR TREK comics came out during a period when the original licensing contracts with the cast were expiring. At that point, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols had not signed new contracts, and so their images could not be used in the comics. Apparently, an order was given to make certain that Sulu and Uhura did not look like the actors, and someone decided the way to do this was to change their races.

By: That Idiot Ivan

That Idiot Ivan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:15:16 +0000

Furrykef-
Many papers are already running four-color, for the news photos, and because of the reader demand and … oh yeah … the ads, so its not a big deal.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:06:09 +0000

tristara - khakis are pants as well as a color. Just as orange is a fruit as well as a color.

chuckers - Hi would be wearing a light blue shirt not a dark blue one. I’ve always found it interesting that in early B&W TV men had to wear light blue shirts with their suits because the whites shirt sort of strobed out on the TV sets.

This will conclude the color part of our commentary.

By: tristara

tristara — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:09:27 +0000

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=fd4c4b040bc2de1fd992eed7ee7d6d84

while we are on the subject, KHAKI is a COLOR, not a STYLE!

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:17:50 +0000

Come to think of it, recently in The Phantom, they were on a ship with an Indian captain, so of course she was colored blonde Caucasian, with a YELLOW dot on her forehead for whatever reason!

I’m trying to remember who or where I heard, but I thought dailies are supposed to be delivered with some sort of watercolor guide? I thought it was SUPPOSED to help whatever colorist at least get within the ballpark of the cartoonist’s intentions.

By: Lord-z

Lord-z — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:07:27 +0000

I always figured that the colour-monkeys got the cartoon without text, so that they were working blind when it came to colours.

The worst example I have seen, was a Snuffy Smith, where he is annoyed that his wanted-poster is in black and white. The colour-monkeys painted the poster in full colour.

By: Powers

Powers — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:40:01 +0000

Oh yeah, this is becoming epidemic. In Rex Morgan a couple of months ago, the color of June’s swimsuit was completely different between dailies and Sundays. Of course, in cases like that, the colorist may have no idea how the artist colors the Sunday strip.

But this isn’t a new problem. I have a Star Trek comic book from the seventies (packaged with a vinyl record that provides sound effects) in which Sulu is black (and wears a blue uniform) and Uhura is white with blonde hair.

By: chuckers

chuckers — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:38:13 +0000

To be fair, a blue shirt would look pretty hideous with that black suit he has on.
So much so, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell he had a shirt on.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:54:21 +0000

In a flashback/re-run strip of For Better or For Worse about two years ago, Elly and her mother were having a pointless argument, in which Elly said, “Do you have to wear blue all the time, Mom?”

Naturally, the colorist colored Elly’s sweater blue in that strip.