I only had time to do some color correction on this weeks's Sunday strip, no time to fix the bleed through from the back side. But I'd rather post now than later, so here ya go (ooo, all the way from 1964, from my earliest era of cutting and saving strips).
March 1, 1964
The Hall Syndicate re-ran this page early in the 1970s (perhaps around the time of Kelly's death), and I remember its being a favourite of mine. I'd been hoping to find it for decades, now.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this!
Hey Mark, glad this worked out for you, thanks for letting me know. I might have it as a re-run too—I've been avoiding scanning the later strips for that very reason. But I might need to, as I'm running out of originally printed strips (we're lucky I've had as many as I've had).
DeleteThank you for posting this. A Monday with Pogo is ALWAYS better than a Monday without.
ReplyDeleteA good way to reduce bleed-through from the back of the page is to put a sheet of black paper behind it. Putting white behind it (like the top of every scanner I've ever had) makes the page behind show up almost as clearly as if you put a bright light behind it to scan.
ReplyDeleteThis is my tip, because I appreciate what you're doing and wish to help somehow.
Thanks for the tip, Kip! But I've been doing that for years, having even adhered the black paper directly to the scanner top.
DeleteTwo things: 1, the newsprint of 50 years ago was treated so badly by the printers that the bleed through is obvious even to the casual eye, therefore exTREMEly obvious to the scanner, no matter how dense I treat the back side...and 2, many of the older strips are pasted into a white paper scrapbook with no way to trick the scanner. All my treatment of printer problems like bleed-through, mis-registration, color issues, ink that's too dark or too light, are through PhotoShop controls. If I didn't already use the black paper trick I don't know that I'd have the patience to correct ANY of the hundreds of strips I've scanned and presented here.
Thanks for your appreciation, Kip!