FWOOOSH
Here we get to see my amazing handwriting in action.
When starting out on any new creative venture, there are always unseen pitfalls. I’ve wasted enough of my life on this sort of thing to be able to avoid at least some of them, but fonts and lettering continue to perplex me. I can’t letter everything by hand for reasons that should be made obvious by this comic. There are not-obvious ones, too, like the compulsive need to tweak every text bubble about ten thousand times each. Lettering digitally is the easy and sane thing to do in basically every regard, and yet it brings about a burning question…
What the hell font am I supposed to use?
I mean, is this supposed to be intuitive? Am I supposed to know by instinct that using Times New Roman, Arial, or the infamous Comic Sans will have the peasants lined up at the castle door, pitchforks aloft and torches a-blazing? I imagine the creator of Comic Sans must be a social outcast, no longer allowed into the land of the sun-dwellers, afraid to use use his own font even to write his suicide note. I mean, I’m not saying that I would’ve chosen one of these fonts, but do you really expect me to know the difference? I can tell serif from sans-serif, sure, but ugly from not-ugly? That’s way beyond me. It’s a font, guys. You can read it or you can’t.
I decided on Anime Ace, by the way, on the scientific basis that a) It came from Blambot, and b) It had the word “anime” in it. Later, I was to find out that Anime Ace was an ugly. This revelation came via a very helpful blog informing me that my webcomic can still be evoking imagery of the webcomic devil, here to steal my comic’s soul and banish it to the fiery abyss with certain other webcomics I’m not popular enough to make fun of, or perhaps tie my comic to train tracks while stroking its fantastic mustache…
Anyway, to make a long story short, I’m going to keep on using Anime Ace, because I can read it.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:33 am
It’s beautiful so far. I love it! :’D