I thought the 3 panels from this era were in black and white? Color was only on Sundays.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
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If you sort by old, you'll see that they were in color since the start: https://lemmy.world/c/garfield?dataType=Post&sort=Old (edit: THIS IS WRONG, see below)
The pre-syndication "Jon" strips were in black n white tho: https://lemmy.world/post/31362903
They were originally published in black and white. This Wikipedia page mentions they were publishing the books in black and white until 2001. Coloring in the old strips happened later, either for full color compilation books, or it seems like someone did it in the early internet era. Right around the time people switched from newspapers to websites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_merchandise#Black_and_white_strips
Very interesting. Today I Learned. Or rather, Today I Remembered, bc I think I had a bunch of the cartoon book collections that were in black and white.