stackyFACTSThe vibrant hues in weekly comic strips are entirely an optical trick. The cheap paper is stamped with tiny overlapping dots of cyan, magenta, and yellow that only look like solid colors from a distance. Up close, the entire page is just a messy, chaotic cluster of tiny ink splatters.
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