A whole lotta thoughts

Francesco Spreafico francesco.spreafico at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 11:44:10 CET 2007


deanmary wrote:

> First off, the upcoming Gottfredson Library.  I very much hope that
> the Library is in color instead of black and white.  Now I can see an
> argument (and a good argument at that) that by printing them in B/W
> that we will be getting Gottfredson's work at the "purest" as they
> were originally never meant to be in color.  However, over the past
> 20+ years I know I have very much been "spoiled" by seeing almost all
> Gottfredson and Taliaferro work in color.  Do others feel as
> "spoiled" as I do?  So while B/W may be a purer form, I could not
> help but feel like something was being left out if the library was
> only in B/W.  Having said this, I still of course will buy the
> Gottfredson Library if it is in B/W, but it won't be the same as a
> color Library.

It will actually be a lot better if it's in b/w. I can't see how color in
Gottfredson's dailies could spoil someone... color on dailies is bad and
*looks* bad too, because those strips weren't supposed to be colored, and it
shows. So it's because I'm spoiled by all the wonderful reprints of other
strips (Krazy Kat, Terry and the Pirates, Popeye, Dick Tracy and so on) in
black and white that can't see how color could ever improve something that's
already perfect as it is. Color would actually only spoil... the books.
Having said this... I'd still buy it even if in color (maybe for commercial
reasons? I don't know, I'd do in in black and white for those too), of
course, but just to support Gemstone, as I always do, for the books it would 
only be another flaw.

Francesco 



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