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Larissa’s Sister
Samjay reports that Larissa Kelly’s sister Arianna was on Jeopardy! tonight. I missed it!
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Liturgial Lettering
A couple of posts ago I shook my head in dismay because it seems Doonesbury now has computer lettering, and I expressed my admiration for Charles Schulz having lettered his comic strips by hand even when his hand was shaking. Schulz’s lettering, instantly recognizable, had a lot of style, as seen in this single panel from the book Schulz’s Youth, a must-have collection for Schulz fans of cartoons that he did for the Church of God. Take note of the “CMS” signature.
I can relate to this cartoon, having gone through a very religious period in my own youth. I remember how, as a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, we were warned against the “liberal” members of the Intervarsity group from another school. We occasionally got together for fellowship meetings and to pool our resources for retreats. It seems silly to me now, but even between groups such as ours there were denominations. This is my semi-sneaky way of introducing an upcoming post about somebody I knew in college named Paul Howley.
P.S. Hey, guess what? Take a close look at the enlarged view of that scanned cartoon. I think that’s computer lettering! I’ll check with Nat Gertler, who did the editing and layout.
P.P.S. I asked Nat if the original captions were typeset, and here is his reply.
The cartoons were indeed originally published with typeset captions, with some variation in the font. Since obviously Schulz did not typeset them himself, I didn’t feel the need to keep that aspect of the original edition (and resetting them allowed me some flexibility, like putting the text to the side in some captions rather than beneath, helping things fit the squarish book better.) And while the set type looked fine on the cartoons in their original context (in the midst of a page of typeset articles), I thought that using a font based on Schulz’s hand lettering would be more comfortable visually. (You’ll note that the lettering has the shake in it, despite the cartoons being before Schulz’s health troubles.)
Having said that, there is one cartoon there that has genuine Schulz hand-lettering: page 165. Some of the places this cartoon has been reused have reset it in type; I was glad to have the source with the hand lettering.
–Nat
Thanks, Nat! Here’s the cartoon he refers to…
Another book Nat did that I highly recommend is It’s Only A Game, a collection of comic strips done by Schulz and the late Jim Sasseville, who also assisted on some of the Peanuts comic books.
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VMnoware
Diane Greene kicked out of VMWare! This is big news. I’d known about the tension between her and Tucci, CEO of EMC, majority owner of VMware, but this came out of nowhere. It will be interesting to find out what’s really been going on behind the scenes.
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Animal Lovers Love McCain?
This survey is pure silliness. If people insist they don’t vote based on a candidate having a dog or cat, then why bother with a survey like this? The candidates never get to spend much time at home, so even if the pet isn’t there just for show, they aren’t the ones taking care of it anyway. Obama isn’t about putting on a show. Whether or not he wears a flag lapel pin or has a dog is meaningless.
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