It's back to serious business this week.
In other news, since I haven't seen my own cartoons in print in six or seven years, I often wonder whether I'm colorizing my cartoons in a way that translates as well to the page as it does on the screen. I was reminded of the possible pitfalls when I saw this cartoon by Michael Ramirez in the Chicago Tribune last week:
Okay, the contrast was a little better in print than in this photograph. I tried scanning the page for this post, but since I have set my preferences to heighten contrast, the scan actually looked better than the printed copy in the Trib. You'll just have to trust me that there's an awful lot of the same shade of dark gray on the page, and it's quite difficult to discern the shape of Doc Brown's DeLorean.
In a newspaper that doesn't print color on its editorial page, this cartoon must be virtually incomprehensible.
The last time I saw one of my own colorized cartoons in print, I was fairly pleased with how it came out. Admittedly, however, that was on glossy paper instead of newsprint, and I tend not to cram anywhere near as much detail into the background of my cartoons as Mr. Ramirez typically does in his.
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