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Comics Code Administrators?
moondood:
Yeah---that's the one. A member asked that I send it--so I dug it up--and it wasn't what I remembered--I thought it was all about the code---but it's more of a "how-to-work in comics" guide....with 2 or 3 pages dedicated to to the code.
It must've had some impact on me, since a few yrs after it was published I became a pro comics letterer and have been one ever since.
I can still remember where I was when I discovered that publication in a pal's pile of stuff--comics and whatnot. I probably read it from cover to cover at the time---way back in '77 or thereabouts. I recall it was undersized--smaller than a regular comic....but since my memory failed me in its content---that may not be correct, either.
Moondood
John C:
--- Quote from: moondood on June 09, 2010, 12:18:00 AM ---It must've had some impact on me, since a few yrs after it was published I became a pro comics letterer and have been one ever since.
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Heh--Wow. A professional letterer inspired by a Charlton publication. That's a sequence of events that I never quite envisioned happening.
I now have images in my head of some poor kid running around a convention trying to meet the elusive A. Machine...and yes, I know they had mostly ditched that approach by then.
(And it's doubly funny, because just recently, I was reading a bit into someone's speculation on the devices used to letter the old Wonder Woman and EC books. Untyped mechanical lettering must've been a weird business judging by the forms of the tools.)
JVJ (RIP):
I actually used Leroy Lettering in the 1970s when I was working for Hewlett Packard, John. It was not all that hard to do - trace a grooved letter in a plastic strip with a tool that was both stylus (for tracing) and pen (really, a clamp to hold a kohinoor or rapidograph pen). You rested the plastic strip on a horizontal ruler and spaced the letters by eye. You could do a lot with them (as long as you owned an electric eraser to cope with mistakes and drips).
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Bob Hughes:
The first Code Czar was Charles F Murphy. The actual code was drafted by Elliot Caplin. The original reviewers were Sue Flynn, Esther Moscow, Joan Nourse, Marj McGill and Dene Reed. Murphy quit in 1956. Mrs. Guy Trulock took over until 1965. After that it was Leonard Darvin. Holly Munter was in charge in the mid-nineties.
Yoc:
Wow, just the info John was looking for.
Thanks Bob!
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