Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 16, 2011

What a SHAM!

They’re jumping the gun a day early for St. Patrick Day.

The colorist should learn to read.

@ransomdstone I was thinking exactly the same thing ;)

Down with comic-strip coloring!

(Can you imagine the New Yorker colorizing an old William Steig?)

In Montreal, they have to put the green lines down the parade route of St. Catherine street the first oportunity they get the first oportunity they get of streets cleared of snow. The river is usually frozen still that time of year.

Remember when Ted Turner had all the old black and white movies colorized? How’d that work out? At least his guys knew the difference between blue and green.

He’s going to have a bunch of shocked citizenry.

THe Kingdom of Id is now a Chlori nation.

I wonder what kind of mutations that will cause in the moat monsters!

The colors in this version are all wrong. For the correct colors see:

http://comics.com/wizardofid/

Sorry, I can’t get that link to copy/paste correctly. You can find the strip on comics.com.

How much is a bag of shock I might like some myself.

barticle35:

Ah, yes, I see what you mean. It makes a LOT more sense that way. THANKS!

(I can’t get it to post right either)

http://comics.com/wizardofid/2011-03-16/

Turner’s folks colorized Advice and Consent, and those particular clowns decided to advance the plot a bit for slower viewers through heavy use of the color lavender in a certain NYC apartment.

Color is good when it adds information. Folks who had to work in B&W (or chose to) put it all there monochromatically.

Then there’s the highly original art of the strip Overboard, right here. Colorization destroys its beautiful wood-block texture.

Yes, the colorization at comics.com is always perfect.

That’s your opinion, Vote. However, I will always prefer the colorized versions providing the the coloring is correct.

With B.C. it is impossible to tell some of the guys apart if not for the hair coloring.. However, it doesn’t help if the coloring is all wrong. That’s where comics.com comes in if the same strip is carried by them. Fortunately, B.C. & Wizard of Id are.

Yes, do as St Patrick did, & destroy all of the Celts written literature because they were Pagan, & you don’t agree with it!!!

Originally, I posted this: What the hell is a “bag of shock?”

Without knowing this, whatever humor was intended didn’t come through at all.

Then I decided to do a little web surfing and found out what it was.

Bad strip! Cartoonists assumed this was a common term everyone knows. I am (unfortunately) not a youngster and have never heard of this until today. Never had a pool or any friends who had a pool with a shock problem.

When I found out what it was, I was surprised.

But not shocked.

(Are we even now, guys?)

Looking forward to tomorrow!

With the discussion of the colorization of B&W movies, I seem to remember seeing a clip where the colorization people fouled up big time: They gave “Ol Blue Eyes” BROWN eyes!

Hi George,

Yeah, it took me a while around google to find out what that ‘shock’ meant too. But until I saw the other comic strip with the color correct, I didn’t even know what to look for.

So the King has so much algae growing in the moat that it’s green and he needs a ‘mega shock’ to get rid of it.