{"id":1674,"date":"2010-05-12T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:58:51","slug":"color-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/color-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Color matters!  Peanuts vs. McDonalds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/comparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/comparison.jpg\" alt=\"comparison\" title=\"comparison\" width=\"550\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/comparison.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/comparison-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>It used to be that comics had really great colors.  Big primary colors printed with halftone dots.  A lot of the times the color dots were off register and would bleed outside the lines.  That was so cool!  In fact my wife and I agree that it made the comic better when the color was off register like that!<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays I&#8217;ve noticed that colors are no longer printed that way.  In fact colors lay real flat on the page now and seem to look dull in some cases.  For instance this <strong>Peanuts<\/strong> Sunday cartoon just looks flat and lifeless.<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/peanuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/peanuts.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c2\u00a9 Universal Press\" title=\"peanuts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/peanuts.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/peanuts-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>  <em>The colors are drab and dull.  Its quite upsetting actually to see a once great comic strip like <strong>Peanuts<\/strong> reduced to looking second rate.  Whoever colored this did an awful job.  But that&#8217;s not the only problem.  The colors are extremely flat and are perfectly within the lines, how deadening is that?  Sometimes too much technology just kills something great.<\/p>\n<p>I did find something cool though.  It seems that <strong>McDonalds<\/strong> still uses the old halftone print jobs on their <strong>Happy Meal<\/strong> bags!  I think they look great by the way and so much more dynamic than that poor <strong>Peanuts<\/strong> strip.  Good job <strong>McDonalds<\/strong>, I hope they keep it up! <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag2.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c2\u00a9 Mc Donalds\" title=\"mcdbag2\" width=\"550\" height=\"597\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag2-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I would love to print an <strong>ICECUBES<\/strong> comic book this way! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag4.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c2\u00a9 Mc Donalds\" title=\"mcdbag4\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag4-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mcdbag4-546x696.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that comics had really great colors. Big primary colors printed with halftone dots. A lot of the times the color dots were off register and would bleed outside the lines. That was so cool! In fact<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/color-matters\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,35,133],"tags":[138,136,125],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cool-pix","category-how-to","tag-peanuts","tag-retro","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}