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Post by Mormel on Jul 31, 2016 7:12:56 GMT -5
Apologies, Icctrombone, I didn't see that the thread was titled 'Deadline/fill-in reviews by Icctrombone'. In my dazed stupor I assumed it was another 'anyone can contribute' thread.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 31, 2016 15:38:00 GMT -5
Apologies, Icctrombone, I didn't see that the thread was titled 'Deadline/fill-in reviews by Icctrombone'. In my dazed stupor I assumed it was another 'anyone can contribute' thread. No harm done. Originally, it was for anyone but I changed it so I can try my hand at reviews.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 1, 2016 13:23:08 GMT -5
My decades-long irritation with the Windows environment knows no bound and shows no sign of abating. Some of my students submiited a term paper electronically, but instead of sending me a PDF or a Word document they provided a link to some Microsoft server. Naturally, I had to soil my computer and open a %$# account to have access to the damn thing. (My password is something like "EatABucketOfSh##,Microsoft", by the way). Having finally access to the file, I tried to save it locally. It seemed to work fine, until I tried to open it again to mark it. A-HA! Technology strikes again : the document is blank. I went back to the original e-mail with the attached link and got back to the Microsoft server, where I could once again gain access... but opening the file from my locally-installed version of word prompts the bloody thing to ask my password again, a process which now fails every time! I suppose that's becaise I should now upgrade to a new version or go with the Cloud version. Like that's gonna happen. trying to print the file as a PDF also results in a blank page. Brilliant. Thankfully, I can open the document with Preview, that ever-so useful equivalent of Adobe reader. That allows me to save the document as a PDF file that I can actually work on. Phew! I used to work on Word back in the days of Word 5. Once I tried OpenOffice and then Pages, I never went back. Why do things have to get so complicated? ARRRRGH! I just wanna work, dammit!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 1, 2016 16:29:56 GMT -5
And the weirdness continues for me in my job search.
Not 30 minutes after I posted about my travails last week, I got an interview set up for Thursday this week for two positions with the same company. I'd applied for a senior individual contributor position as part of those five submissions a couple of weeks ago, but their recruiter contacted me about a new management-level position within the department. We talked a little bit and he said it would be possible for me to discuss both positions with the individual I'm interviewing with (who happens to be the top procurement person in the company, so he's the final decision-maker on either of them) and let him decide which one I'm better suited for.
After that, I got an interview set up for Tuesday afternoon with the insurance company I had met with last week, and just this afternoon, I got a call from another of the companies I'd applied to (this one was about a month ago) and set up a phone interview for Wednesday afternoon.
Just crazy how things happen, but as my wife and I have been discussing, God has a plan for me and maybe it was to have the whole summer off and then to get a job just in time for my girls to go back to school in the fall.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 1, 2016 19:58:58 GMT -5
Just got into a conversation with Tom Orzechowski on facebook and randomly discovered he and I live in the same town! Maybe I need to work up the nerve to ask for an interview...
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Post by Chris on Aug 1, 2016 21:41:32 GMT -5
Just got into a conversation with Tom Orzechowski on facebook and randomly discovered he and I live in the same town! Maybe I need to work up the nerve to ask for an interview... Dooo eeeeet! I can help ya, or at least give you a few tips, if you want to do it as a podcast.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 1, 2016 21:55:33 GMT -5
Just got into a conversation with Tom Orzechowski on facebook and randomly discovered he and I live in the same town! Maybe I need to work up the nerve to ask for an interview... Dooo eeeeet! I can help ya, or at least give you a few tips, if you want to do it as a podcast. Worth considering! Thank you. First I'd probably need to assemble a list of questions from the community. I'll sleep on it tonight.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 2, 2016 7:49:42 GMT -5
Just got into a conversation with Tom Orzechowski on facebook and randomly discovered he and I live in the same town! Maybe I need to work up the nerve to ask for an interview... Rob Allen and I have been friends with Tom for something like a decade, dating back to when he was still living in Portland. We've sat right here in my office talking comics. He's a great guy, very accessible and very knowledgable. Feel free to drop my name if you decide to contact him. Cei-U! I summon the nerd network!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 2, 2016 12:05:21 GMT -5
Dooo eeeeet! I can help ya, or at least give you a few tips, if you want to do it as a podcast. Worth considering! Thank you. First I'd probably need to assemble a list of questions from the community. "What's your opinion of the Comics Sans font"?
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 2, 2016 13:39:11 GMT -5
I've unfortunately lost touch with Tom since he moved and I'm not on Facebook (I will be someday).
Get him to tell you about teaching Bill Sienkiewicz the Polish pronunciation of his name.
Ask him about the time he and Mike Royer discussed which of them had been the last to letter a mainstream comic book by hand, as computer lettering took over the industry.
Ask him about lettering every issue of Spawn, from #1 to today - possibly the longest run a letterer has ever had on a comic.
Ask about what else he's doing now besides Spawn. How does a freelance letterer make a living these days? He was starting to get into book design and font creation, and had developed some expertise in lettering translated manga.
His personal collecting focus was 50s DC the last I heard; I'm sure he'd love to talk about the comics he enjoys.
His own favorite letterer was Gaspar Saladino. Tom showed me that Gaspar had a particularly distinctive 'J' that helps you recognize his work even without credits.
Get him to talk about the art and science of placing captions and word balloons so that they are easy to follow but don't cover up important parts of the art. This is why wordy writers like Chris Claremont seek out Tom.
Ask him about the difference between a font and a typeface. The general public tends to misuse technical terms, in this field as in many others.
Get him to talk about his friends and colleagues, but tread lightly there - he's still annoyed with Roy Thomas about all the times Roy asked Tom to letter something overnight because the artist was late. But he moved to NYC in the early 70s and to San Francisco a decade later, so he met a lot of great comics people.
And say hi from me!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 2, 2016 13:46:34 GMT -5
Tom reportedly created many comic title logos, used for many years such as Wolverine. I'm sure he has much to say on that topic
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Post by shaxper on Aug 2, 2016 15:40:39 GMT -5
Shortly after writing about Tom last night, I pulled out the top books on my To-Read pile to wind down with: P. Craig Russell's Night Music, lettered by Tom.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 2, 2016 23:15:43 GMT -5
Oh, you're going to love that.
I remember getting that in one of my first mail order purchases in high school.
Everything about that is beautiful.
I well remember reading it sitting in the weeds on the top of the hill west of my parents' house with an A&W Root Beer.
Memories
I'd ask Orz which printed project he'd worked on he enjoyed the most.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 3, 2016 8:10:01 GMT -5
Something I'm curious about : what does a letterer do nowadays? I can imagine them creating fonts, but I imagine cartoonists would rather be the ones to place word balloons and text in their own pages, then modify the font as needed. (I know I do). Does a letterer bring expertise in choosing the most appropriate fonts, creating new ones as needed? Do publishers trust letterers more than cartoonists when it comes to getting the best results?
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 3, 2016 9:14:35 GMT -5
19 disabled folks were murdered in Japan last week, with an additional 26 grievously wounded, in the worst mass murder in that nation since the end of World War II and the media silence is deafening. Sure, having a disability or having a disabled child is considered shameful in Japanese culture but right wing politicians in this country have made statements about us similar to the killer's. I've experienced discrimination, disgust, and outright hatred from certain elements in our society my entire life. Hell, I've had total strangers tell me I have no right to live, that I'm sucking up valuable resources that could be going to "real people" (a variation on the asshat who once tried to pick up my then-girlfriend right in front of me by telling her she deserved a "real man"). And you want to know why the prospect of President Trump terrifies me?? Cei-U! Too pissed to summon anything!
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