Align your text boxes, Margaret!
I’m not sure that a true child of chaos like Maggie should be allowed to use Indesign, no matter how good her intentions may be. Imagine the wayward kerning, loose tracking and playful application of Comic Sans and Fette Fraktur in juxtaposition. Shagrat are a real Cornish band.
“Snoopy”? Is it always accompanied by a fuzzy Woodstock?
Also, the Prodigal Daughter, Newly-Saved Christian, is telling the modest Satanist to make money by showing her da kine?
There is no evidence that Maggie is either Christian or has been “saved”.
I thought that she once almost ascended Heavenwards?
Quite the opposite, really
Being “saved” is never a done deal, it’s a process.
There’s a few million Calvinists and Baptists outside wanna talk to you…
I haven’t looked but I assume John Allison’s OnlyFans has him drawing slightly risque classic newspaper cartoons, hence him being “notorious for his snoopy”.
Snoopy. That’s a new one.
Does Fette Fraktur have proper kerning at least?
Never mind that – does it have fancy ligatures and old-style numerals?
Yes.
Not wishing to be pedantic (but I’m going to be) but that PNG has neither ligatures (fancy or respectable) nor old-style numerals.
Fraktur without fancy ligatures would be the kind of typographic nightmare far too many current-day sign makers imagine to be old-style. Most don’t even have any clue about when to use ſ and when to use s. 90% use the latter exclusively, 5% use the former exclusively, 3% mix them up in a wild manner.
You might call it a pet peeve, I call it an atrocity.
its all about the proceſs, if used properly, one may be aſsured of succeſs.
(I actually don’t know the rules, but I’ve read enough 18th c. and earlier texts to know the most common cases.)
I thought “aſsured” looked like nothing I’ve seen and read up a bit on it:
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-1/tb100west.pdf
It looks like ſs would appear mid-word in compound words or in italic text (where ß ultimately comes from). Did you notice a more relaxed use of it in later roman print publications?
I love seeing these two together. Maggie knows quitting that job was the best thing for Billie to do. Funny to see her suggesting a new way to make money using her “natural skills”. Billie’s reaction is fantastic. Absolute denial waving her finger and showing her tongue. She has completely recovered from her sadness♡.
I am possessed by a morbid fascination about Live Music Thursdays.
Given the band named, that poster may have been there quite a while…
Alternatively, maybe Tredregyn is where all the washed up bands wash up.
The town is conveniently located on the sea shore.
::winces at “wayward kerning”::: NUUUUuuuuuuuuuuu
On purely anecdotal evidence, Maggie is exactly the sort of person mucking about with InDesign. O my poor eyes.
I always imagined Maggie as a fan of Microsoft Publisher (spits) all of whom should be burned at the stake.
Or almost as bad or possibly worse, those that use Excel as a page layout program. Yes these people exist. There is no curse in the tongues of Elves, Dwarves, or Men strong enough to describe them.
Microsoft Publisher made CorelDraw seem easy and fun to use.
What was wrong with QuarkXpress, eh?
More of an Aldus Pagemaker man myself.
Ventura Publisher was my jam, back in the day.
Thank you.
Olav Martin Kvern
author, “Real World PageMaker,” and “Real World InDesign”
We had a client that used PowerPoint to produce documents to be printed out, because it was the only way they knew to get a landscape layout.
(Ppt and Excel are a complete curse for translators, by the way. Don’t send us that stuff.)
Lest she see the futurist printings, then it shall never have a drop of recognizable order again!
We’re all just living in their shadow: http://aii.lgrace.com/images/futurist_poetry.JPG
I am finding the last panel completely opaque. Is this Brit dialect, or Welsh, or Allisonian? Is a translation possible?
Maggie is teasing Billie by telling her to strip down nekkid and sell video and pictures of herself on a website called Onlyfans. ‘Snoopy’ is a reference to a lady’s naughty bits.
Thank you for the translation. I actually thought she was referring to Billie’s perfectionism & tendency to nitpick, which definitely can be monetized. I blush for my ignorance.
On the plus side, only two more days until SHAGRAT
As someone who, later this very day, will be tasked with tidying up a newsletter which is initially assembled by someone who invariably pays no attention to detail when laying it out… I’m in this photo, and I don’t like it.
‘Snoopy’? Is that supposed to refer to how Snoopy’s nose looks like a breast? I’m completely guessing here – never heard that word used like that before.
Now I cannot unsee a nose-feeding beagle.
Thanks a lot.
It seems to be the use of a dog’s name to refer to a part of the female anatomy that is more customarily designated by a synonym for “cat.” Is that irony? Or is that something that I’m confusing with irony?
Considering the shape of a dog’s nose, seems like it might be more “appropriate” as a designation for the corresponding part of the male anatomy, though. A dog and a cat, now THAT’S irony. Unless it isn’t, of course.
It’s just a funny word. Try not to overthink it.
So there’s a Hurley’s and a Purley’s in town.
Surely that’s quite squirelly.
Squirrelly.
I denounce myself.
Squrley, surely?
I’m thinking Turley’s, Durley’s and Curley’s are easily imaginable.
And the risque’ club at the edge of town could be Burley’s.
As long as Hurley’s and Burley’s aren’t too close together. You’d have quite the donnybrook.
Do they still allow Snoopy on Onlyfans? I thought the Shultz estate had put a stop to that.
Is it just me or does the cloud over Billie’s head look like it says “Huesday”?
Huesday is, of course, a special day of the week that only comes around once every seven years, and only in Tredregyn.
It is commemorated in no way whatsoever, except by one of the owners of the local dry-cleaning shop, who gets very excited about it for reasons no one else has ever been able to ascertain.
It’s a very colorful day.
I think being notorious for your Snoopy would still impair your chances to become Mayor of Tredregyn.
I think…
Though – who knows, these days?
As long as you are not caught evading dog taxes, I don’t see why.
I can’t help but think what a scandal it would be if word got out that a recently “converted” Satanist is helping to write a parish newsletter.
Which one? The one converted FROM, or the one converted TO?
something I remembered from a long long time ago:
https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2006-08-02
I keep admiring the craft in that first panel. Three layers — the sidewalk table and chairs, the main characters at their booth, the background counter and table — rendered in solid perspective and working smartly as a composition. Then toss in the caption rendered as cooking steam (I missed that at first though) and man-oh-man that first panel packs a lot.
I think we’re not doing enough to appreciate Maggie’s Words of Consolation in Panel 2!
Masterful comics ???? ???????????? ????
I am actually surprised Maggie or the church are able to afford indesign… I honestly would have thought she would have download Canva in her phone and hoped for the best
Non-profit (NGOs, churches) pricing for software ranges from fairly reasonable to practically free.