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It Doesn’t Mean We Should

It Doesn’t Mean We Should

It Doesn’t Mean We Should Years ago, this piece of wisdom was imparted to us by the late Jeff Pollard, a graphic designer whose work we admired tremendously: Good graphic design is effective packaging. It packages a message to make it as engaging, accessible,...
The Irony Board

The Irony Board

The Irony Board Riddle us this, Batman: If we’re so enamored of abbreviations and acronyms, why do we protract and convolute our speech so much? Ironic, isn’t it? Consider: Rather than, “Prioritize,” we’re likely to hear someone say,...
Innovative Brutes

Innovative Brutes

Innovative Brutes But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going … I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one...
Unwitnesses

Unwitnesses

Unwitnesses There are few things we enjoy as much as idle musing. After all, when you’re in the business of creating cartoons, you only have two reliable sources of material: (1) idle musing and (2) people-watching. And with very few exceptions, that’s a...
Y’all Pass Me That Bottle

Y’all Pass Me That Bottle

Y’all Pass Me That Bottle What Night Train Express and Thunderbird are to vintage wines, Ventura Publisher is to graphic design. In 1986 (yeah, we were there), Ventura Publisher begat what came to be known as desktop publishing. That opened the world of graphic...