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No. 925: Orson if he was colored by Vivziepop

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Orson if he was colored by Vivziepop

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=925

Strip by: Muk

{The comic is colored in various shades of red and blue.}
{Orson runs to the trough and holds up a ladle.}
Orson: Boy, am I thirsty!
{Orson drinks the water.}
SFX: SLUCK
{Roy comes out of the water, wearing a bathing cap. Orson is shocked.}
Roy: Ah!
Roy: What a great bath
Roy: {exiting} I haven't had a bath in months
{Orson spits out the water}
SFX: POOOHH

The author writes:

The last few months of U.S. Acres weren't colored, and I was curious to see what it would look like if they were. Clip Studio Paint has an automatic colorizer feature, and when I ran it on the comic while keeping the line art, I ended up getting this. I tried adjusting it more, but it always stuck to this one palette.

It had no idea what U.S. Acres actually looked like, and trying to use a daily comic for color reference didn't help it much. So I decided to manually color in panels of the comic, staying intentionally messy because I wanted to give it an idea without doing all the work for it. That came out like this:
orsbin manual color

When I ran the colorizer again, I got these really muddy, watercolor-style colors for each panel:
orsbin redone

Automated colorizing has a long way to go, so I think Jim's colorist's job is safe for the foreseeable future. But it'd be cool to see the red/blue palette applied to a real comic.

Original U.S. Acres strip: 1989-04-02 (via Garfield Wiki).