Full-color Sunday comics have been a long tradition in newspapers. Sundays were reserved for big, multi-panel comic strips printed in bright colors and featured in their own section known as the Sunday Funnies. Though Charles M. Schulz always drew his comics in black and white, he did have a hand in choosing the colors for his Sunday strips.
Schulz sent his completed black-and-white Sunday strips to a local printing company to have a negative made. From the negative, a reproduction of the strip was made in a smaller size than the original. Schulz would hand-color this copy and have his secretary number the colors using a color chart, as shown in the example below. The newspaper syndicates used this numbering system to identify the correct color dye for the printing plates for the Sunday Funnies. Eventually, Schulz’s secretary took over the entire coloring and numbering process under his supervision.
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Pandantic@midwest.social · 6 pts · 39d
Wait, Lucy is a toddler?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 39d
I think early peanuts was really loose with details.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d
The prison is only in your mind.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 37d
My earliest memory is basically this.
An early memory of my kid is not dissimilar to this.
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 39d
Who colorized it?
m_f@discuss.online · 2 pts · 39d
The comics are pulled from https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins, which doesn't say who did the colorization.
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 38d
That's too bad. It's good coloring, I wonder if Schultz did it, or a publisher.
m_f@discuss.online · 2 pts · 37d
Here's what the Schulz Museum says
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 37d
Very interesting, thank you for looking that up