Speaking of pi*z*z*a, Chris M can spell banana:
And here is a little info from Gary E:
Regarding the black dots image: You can usually see two dots at once if you look at the intersection between the dots where there is not one present. Tilting your head does the same with the diagonal lines. Isn’t stereo vision amazing?
And this just now came in from Chris:
What’s really strange is that at 6 inches with the image about 12 inches wide, I see all twelve. The center two are in and out. I have macular degeneration seriously affecting the center of my field of vision on both eyes.
Reading machine text is difficult. Drawn characters such as in the strips are highly challenging. Sometimes I have to guess at the words from context.
This condition sucks.
I’m very sorry to learn that, Chris. I sincerely hope your condition stabilizes.
As for cartoon lettering, one can get sloppy. I tried very hard to be legible, even Photoshopping when it was really bad. For me the hardest part of drawing a strip was the lettering. I would pencil it first just like I did the drawing. I could fit 21 letters or spaces in a panel. The I’s took half a space. Sometimes it was tricky. Back around 2000-2001 I created a font suitcase using my drawn letters. Actually I made six suitcases and wrote a little program to alternate the font set as I was typing. Look at the E’s. You’ll notice that they are just a little different from one another. If you don’t know, a font suitcase is kind of like a file folder. Switching between different suitcases made the kerning difficult.
Very neat, isn’t it? I used it for about two and a half years then went back to drawing my fonts.
