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I never realized that he did this! I always noticed how the longer colour strips started with a two panel throw-away for papers that wouldn't print it. Was th
by sodapopcan 6y ago
I never realized that he did this! I always noticed how the longer colour strips started with a two panel throw-away for papers that wouldn't print it. Was that still a thing after he demanded the whole thing be printed? If so it's interesting that he kept up the two-panel thing after that!
- agency 6y agoHe got pretty experimental with the format once he had the freedom to do so: https://i.imgur.com/ddU50.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ddU50.jpg https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/26 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/26 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/12/19 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/12/19
- sodapopcan 6y agoOhhhhhh ya. I totally forgot about those! I still have my books (as well as the collection) but it's been a while since I read the later ones.
- teraflop 6y agoNot really -- the format of the Sunday strips became a lot looser and more varied after the throwaway panels stopped being a thing. Compare, for example, these two Calvin-as-a-dinosaur strips, from 1988 and 1994: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/08/14 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/08/14 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/01/30 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/01/30
- qndreoi 6y agoJust two days ago, BC noted that two panels could be thrown away on Sunday. https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2020/11/22 https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2020/11/22
- gxqoz 6y agoHuh, I see that all the time in Wizard of Id and never realized the somewhat incongruous first panels were due to this.