This story is from late 2000. When I made this I was thinking of my old friend Jayant Karnick. He was a little guy like Mahatma Coat, from Jabalpur India, and a little bit of a wheeler dealer. Quite a character. He died too young. I miss him.

Notice the lettering. I created font suitcases with four different fonts for each letter, both in lower case and caps. Then I wrote a little routine to rotate through the font suitcases as I typed. The letters are nice, but sometimes the kerning wasn’t quite right. After a year or so I went back to lettering everything by hand. But as I look at this it looks like for this story I didn’t rotate the suitcases.

I found that old painting I told you about last week. It was in a closet behind a bunch of clothes, face to the wall…

WHOA!

From 1997…

Back tomorrow.

Mr. Grace is on vacation…

Hey, I’m on vacation. But not to worry. Mert Nertman is going to cover for me. Get ready for a week of big laughs!