Lifeless Lettering
Since Garry Trudeau returned from his break a couple of weeks ago it sure looks to me like Doonesbury has computer lettering. I really dislike computer lettering for comics. A quick online check shows others also noticing the change, but nothing definitive.
This is how the lettering looked in one of the Sunday strips that was reprinted in May…
…and this is a panel from today’s Doonesbury.
I’d say there’s no doubt that the switch has been made to computer lettering. Yuck!
After Charles Schulz’s right hand started to shake, he held it steady with his left hand when inking and lettering Peanuts. In fifty years he took no sabbaticals and there were no reprinted strips. I’m not saying all cartoonists should be held to such a standard, but Schulz certainly set the standard.
5 comments July 6th, 2008