mugwumpian: Well fuck you too, Illustrator. So I’ve embarked on a project to collect and publish (on demand, obvi) the full run of my high school webcomic, Construction Paper Angst. This so far has involved digging up 8+ year old backup CDs with hundreds of Jasc Paint Shop Pro files and finding out one of the CDs is partially unreadable (not to mention that the early strips were all lost due to a fried computer when a friend incorrectly tried to install a CD burner). Finding no viable Mac conversion program, I put all of the files onto a Windows machine at work, downloaded a trial of Corel Paint Ship Pro Xtreeeeeeem and started poking around the files only to start a barrage of “FONT NOT FOUND” error messages. After going through the underworld of the internet (and downloading pretty much every free Blambot font in existence) I felt that I had a handle on the 30 some odd novelty fonts I used in my high school days. I started running batch conversions to make .PSDs, and guess what? In the ten years since I first used Paint Shop Pro, no one has been able to give the program the ability to export vector data. So every Photoshop file I have has a layer of flattened text and speech balloons. Also, I missed a fair number of fonts. Better still, the new version of Paint Shop Pro shifted even the fonts I did have about 7 pixels to the right, so now every single line of dialog in 300+ strips is butting up against, oh, 3,000 some speech balloons?  Which leads me to tonight! Drinking and reading comic lettering Illustrator tutorials because why wouldn’t I want to re-typeset the entire strip? Illustrator is now just plain mocking me. I know the work is mostly crap, and I definitely know my (lack of) design skills at the time were crap. I’m not going to fix that or rebuild completely from scratch. But what level of naive authenticity do I maintain? This is kind of a perfect #msaed project. What level of awful do I aspire to achieve in creating my own special edition? I have it in my head that I’m going to add some strips and clean up some storylines. Will I make Greedo shoot first? Why, ten years later, do I still care? This thing only ever angered people. I have more legitimate projects I could be doing. It’ll be weeks or even months of work culminating in a book only I’ll ever read. I can give a copy to my mom. Maybe I’ll debut it at my 10 year high school reunion in 2013 and hope I get sued. Have I mentioned I’ve been drinking?

mugwumpian:

Well fuck you too, Illustrator.

So I’ve embarked on a project to collect and publish (on demand, obvi) the full run of my high school webcomic, Construction Paper Angst. This so far has involved digging up 8+ year old backup CDs with hundreds of Jasc Paint Shop Pro files and finding out one of the CDs is partially unreadable (not to mention that the early strips were all lost due to a fried computer when a friend incorrectly tried to install a CD burner).

Finding no viable Mac conversion program, I put all of the files onto a Windows machine at work, downloaded a trial of Corel Paint Ship Pro Xtreeeeeeem and started poking around the files only to start a barrage of “FONT NOT FOUND” error messages. After going through the underworld of the internet (and downloading pretty much every free Blambot font in existence) I felt that I had a handle on the 30 some odd novelty fonts I used in my high school days. I started running batch conversions to make .PSDs, and guess what? In the ten years since I first used Paint Shop Pro, no one has been able to give the program the ability to export vector data. So every Photoshop file I have has a layer of flattened text and speech balloons. Also, I missed a fair number of fonts. Better still, the new version of Paint Shop Pro shifted even the fonts I did have about 7 pixels to the right, so now every single line of dialog in 300+ strips is butting up against, oh, 3,000 some speech balloons? 

Which leads me to tonight! Drinking and reading comic lettering Illustrator tutorials because why wouldn’t I want to re-typeset the entire strip? Illustrator is now just plain mocking me. I know the work is mostly crap, and I definitely know my (lack of) design skills at the time were crap. I’m not going to fix that or rebuild completely from scratch. But what level of naive authenticity do I maintain?

This is kind of a perfect #msaed project. What level of awful do I aspire to achieve in creating my own special edition? I have it in my head that I’m going to add some strips and clean up some storylines. Will I make Greedo shoot first? Why, ten years later, do I still care? This thing only ever angered people. I have more legitimate projects I could be doing. It’ll be weeks or even months of work culminating in a book only I’ll ever read. I can give a copy to my mom. Maybe I’ll debut it at my 10 year high school reunion in 2013 and hope I get sued. Have I mentioned I’ve been drinking?

mugwumpian: Well fuck you too, Illustrator. So I’ve embarked on a project to collect and publish (on demand, obvi) the full run of my high school webcomic, Construction Paper Angst. This so far has involved digging up 8+ year old backup CDs with hundreds of Jasc Paint Shop Pro files and finding out one of the CDs is partially unreadable (not to mention that the early strips were all lost due to a fried computer when a friend incorrectly tried to install a CD burner). Finding no viable Mac conversion program, I put all of the files onto a Windows machine at work, downloaded a trial of Corel Paint Ship Pro Xtreeeeeeem and started poking around the files only to start a barrage of “FONT NOT FOUND” error messages. After going through the underworld of the internet (and downloading pretty much every free Blambot font in existence) I felt that I had a handle on the 30 some odd novelty fonts I used in my high school days. I started running batch conversions to make .PSDs, and guess what? In the ten years since I first used Paint Shop Pro, no one has been able to give the program the ability to export vector data. So every Photoshop file I have has a layer of flattened text and speech balloons. Also, I missed a fair number of fonts. Better still, the new version of Paint Shop Pro shifted even the fonts I did have about 7 pixels to the right, so now every single line of dialog in 300+ strips is butting up against, oh, 3,000 some speech balloons?  Which leads me to tonight! Drinking and reading comic lettering Illustrator tutorials because why wouldn’t I want to re-typeset the entire strip? Illustrator is now just plain mocking me. I know the work is mostly crap, and I definitely know my (lack of) design skills at the time were crap. I’m not going to fix that or rebuild completely from scratch. But what level of naive authenticity do I maintain? This is kind of a perfect #msaed project. What level of awful do I aspire to achieve in creating my own special edition? I have it in my head that I’m going to add some strips and clean up some storylines. Will I make Greedo shoot first? Why, ten years later, do I still care? This thing only ever angered people. I have more legitimate projects I could be doing. It’ll be weeks or even months of work culminating in a book only I’ll ever read. I can give a copy to my mom. Maybe I’ll debut it at my 10 year high school reunion in 2013 and hope I get sued. Have I mentioned I’ve been drinking?

mugwumpian:

Well fuck you too, Illustrator.

So I’ve embarked on a project to collect and publish (on demand, obvi) the full run of my high school webcomic, Construction Paper Angst. This so far has involved digging up 8+ year old backup CDs with hundreds of Jasc Paint Shop Pro files and finding out one of the CDs is partially unreadable (not to mention that the early strips were all lost due to a fried computer when a friend incorrectly tried to install a CD burner).

Finding no viable Mac conversion program, I put all of the files onto a Windows machine at work, downloaded a trial of Corel Paint Ship Pro Xtreeeeeeem and started poking around the files only to start a barrage of “FONT NOT FOUND” error messages. After going through the underworld of the internet (and downloading pretty much every free Blambot font in existence) I felt that I had a handle on the 30 some odd novelty fonts I used in my high school days. I started running batch conversions to make .PSDs, and guess what? In the ten years since I first used Paint Shop Pro, no one has been able to give the program the ability to export vector data. So every Photoshop file I have has a layer of flattened text and speech balloons. Also, I missed a fair number of fonts. Better still, the new version of Paint Shop Pro shifted even the fonts I did have about 7 pixels to the right, so now every single line of dialog in 300+ strips is butting up against, oh, 3,000 some speech balloons? 

Which leads me to tonight! Drinking and reading comic lettering Illustrator tutorials because why wouldn’t I want to re-typeset the entire strip? Illustrator is now just plain mocking me. I know the work is mostly crap, and I definitely know my (lack of) design skills at the time were crap. I’m not going to fix that or rebuild completely from scratch. But what level of naive authenticity do I maintain?

This is kind of a perfect #msaed project. What level of awful do I aspire to achieve in creating my own special edition? I have it in my head that I’m going to add some strips and clean up some storylines. Will I make Greedo shoot first? Why, ten years later, do I still care? This thing only ever angered people. I have more legitimate projects I could be doing. It’ll be weeks or even months of work culminating in a book only I’ll ever read. I can give a copy to my mom. Maybe I’ll debut it at my 10 year high school reunion in 2013 and hope I get sued. Have I mentioned I’ve been drinking?

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