I was looking for old family photos to use in a flyer for a memoir workshop and I came up with a letter from Heather McAdams written on the back of one of her cartoons. The cartoon is about money, rather the lack of… and was drawn in April 1996. Heather’s penmanship is an extension of her drawing or maybe the other way around. It seems to me that many artists have a drawn handwriting. When I write a dedication in a book sometimes someone says: “oh, you’re writing is just like the writing you use in your strip.” I think in the early days of cartooning when a cartoon was a group effort, someone wrote the story, drew the backgrounds and inked the captions. Some of the old strips that are still around do it that way, but it’s not the way of the future. Online cartoons replace newspaper comic strips and everything is different.
Oh, Heaven help me! Two things:
Nicole, here’s my never-to-be English teacher/nit picker coming out: You misspelled ‘your’. You used the noun-verb contraction “you’re” instead of the pronoun. Or was the mistake that of your typist? Interesting that error was made. Usually it’s the other way ’round: the person writing the sentence uses ‘your’ for “you’re” as in “Your not going to the coffee shop again, are you?”
And then the telepathic counseling ties into my wish to telepathically give Jin Shin treatments to my friends on the east coast. Earl cracks me up! I was thinking of using a doll and imagining I’m working on my ailing friend with the accupressure treatments. Whaddaya think? Will it work?
Re: your and you’re. I am one of those writers who falls into contractions. I make that mistake all the time.I think it has to do with writing fast and not thinking. I often write it’s when I mean its. nicole
I think you should tell your friend that you’re working on a doll. If the telepathy works and he’s cured, it’s going to be a shock. (I realize that I used your and you’re correctly in this sentence, completely unconscious)
And I forgot to comment on Heather’s lovely ad. I am elated that she got an A+ and was called ‘bright’. Kudoes!
Her handwriting brought to mind one of Elmore Leonard’s novels wherein a character had studied what a person’s handwriting revealed and ponders endlessly and quite adroitly on the handwriting of the other characters. Mr. Leonard is wonderful. I love his books.