A popular TheFarSide comic was ruined when editors added color. Gary Larson tells the story of a strip being adapted for merchandise where one penguin in a crowd of dozens was colored yellow to make it unique - the opposite of the strip's actual joke.
The Far Side comics are often a journey into the surreal and the absurd. While a number of Gary Larson's comic strips are open to various interpretations or are meant to be pure nonsense, others are built around a well-defined joke. In one instance, however, Larson's attempt to poke fun at individuality and uniformity was misunderstood by an editor, resulting in the cartoon being ruined once color was added.
The panels of The Far Side are inhabited by various creatures, from dim-witted humans, to cunning cows, to suspiciously sinister ducks. One of the frequent sights of The Far Side world are the dapper denizens of the Antarctic, the noble penguin. More than once, the monochrome birds poke fun at living in a world without color: penguins are uniformly black and white, inhabiting a land of snowy whites.
How Editors Destroyed a Far Side Joke Fate would turn the gleeful penguin's song on its head. With The Far Side's popularity reaching its apex, Larson's publisher's gift and stationary division decided to capitalize on the brand by turning a number of its strips into full-color posters. As Larson relates in The Prehistory of the Far Side, one strip chosen for the poster treatment was the singing penguin.
The Far Side Reversal Was Accidentally True to Nature While the editors in charge of the posters simply chose to embrace the penguin's unique nature by making it yellow, the situation actually has some basis in reality. While the King Penguins which inhabit the planet's southernmost islands and coastlines are generally black and white , sometimes nature throws a peculiarity into the mix.
It's a bizarre story of life imitating art - and only because The Far Side's editors made an initial mistake that totally undercut Gary Larson's intended joke!Source: The Prehistory of The Far Side, Audubon
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