Designer Eric Tan’s blog is just a joy to peruse. I could just wade around in it for days.
Here’s a few reasons why:
Category: Cartoonists
Ultimate Comic Sans Answers
So a few days ago I posted my Ultimate Comic Sans made entirely of letters from artists’ signatures and asked to see if anyone could guess them.
A few folks so far have gotten some (usually E, L, S & T), but I think it’s been long enough, so here’s the answers:
- A – Charles Addams
- B – Lynda Barry
- C – Milton Caniff
- D – Jim Davis
- E – Will Eisner
- F – Jules Feiffer
- G – Matt Groening
- H – Syd Hoff
- I – Ub Iwerks
- J – Lynn Johnston
- K – Bil Keane
- L – Gary Larson
- M – Winsor McCay
- N – Thomas Nast
- O – Pat Oliphant
- P – Peyo
- Q – Joe Quesada
- R – Alex Raymond
- S – Charles Schulz
- T – Garry Trudeau
- U – Jim Unger
- V – P.C. Vey
- W – Bill Watterson
- X – OK, I couldn’t really come up with one for X, so I just used my own handwriting.
- Y – Chic Young
- Z – Jack Ziegler
So how’d you do?
Ultimate Comics Sans
So a lot of people really hate Comic Sans.
I can’t say I’m wild about it, but I didn’t really give it a lot of thought. At least until recently.
I thought it might be fun to build the ultimate Comics Sans out of famous cartoonists and comic artists’ signature. And after a bit of Googling and scanning, I have it:
Each letter is the first letter of the last name of a famous artist’s signature. Here’s an example to get you started – the letter "A" is the "A" from Charles Addams’ signature. Make sense?
See if you can guess the rest! I’ll post the answers in another blog post.
Have fun!
UPDATE – The answers are up! Go see how you did!
Matt Groening Talks Treehouse of Horror
Via NPR’s Weekend Edition:
J. Scott Campbell’s Disney
I’m a fan of good girl art, and it’d be hard to think of good-er girls then Disney ones. So it’s fun to see comics artist J. Scott Campbell’s pin-up-y takes on these iconic characters.
Take Snow White for example:
You can see the rest here! (Thanks, io9!)