Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

My publisher’s gift and stationery division decided one day they wanted to make this and a few other Far Side cartoons into posters. The problem was this one particular cartoon featured nothing but penguins and ice, which didn’t lend itself to color.

When the finished posters show up, I was interested to see they had indeed found a use for color in this cartoon―they made the one penguin (who’s singing “I Gotta Be Me”) yellow―the others remained in black and white.

In other words, the entire point of the cartoon had been reversed. In the original version, I was being cynical about the futility of trying to be unique in a sea of commonality. But by making just the singing penguin yellow, the publisher made him stand out, and the cartoon then made the same point the song originally intended.

At least that’s what I feared. I was really worried someone might actually think I was being sensitive for a moment. That would make me sick.