speaking of "always learning"
Melissa Wiley
I got emails from my mother and my husband this morning that made me think
about this list--about people always learning. :) My mother wrote that she's
studying for a test she's taking for her job--a test to become a "certified
anti-money-laundering specialist." She made a joke about how it's just what
she always dreamed of being when she was a little girl. It isn't, but she
really enjoys her job, which has to do with banking and computers.
My husband is a comic-book editor. He sent me a jpg of a page of comic book
art that came across his desk today. It's part of a monthly issue of one of
his series. Scott (his last name is Peterson, which comes into the story)
got the pages from the letterer, which means they had already been
pencilled, inked, and colored. Scott forwarded the colored pages on to the
penciller and letterer for review before he had a chance to review them
himself. (As editor, a big part of his job is going over everything at each
stage of the process, from script to printed book.) A little while later the
penciller called him, laughing, wondering if he'd seen page 8 yet. Scott
hadn't. He cracked up when he did look--in one panel there's an old-timey
movie poster stuck to a telephone pole, and the letterer had added, as a
joke, a word balloon with the words "Scott Peterson is dreamy" coming out of
the starlet's mouth. There's a bunch of other dialogue on the page, so you
don't notice at first glance; you have to actually read the balloons and
then it's really funny.
Scott showed the whole thing to me, and we were laughing about it. He said
the really funny part is that when he was ballooning the issue (marking
where the word balloons should go before the letterer does the lettering),
HE had stuck a joke balloon in that spot so the starlet was saying "I love
[letterer's name]." (I forget the guy's name.) Scott wrote me, "Never start
a lettering war with a letterer" and it made me laugh, because that is
definitely something they don't teach you in school!
Both their stories, my mom's and Scott's, struck me as examples of how real
life can take us places that have nothing to do with what we did in school,
and how there is always something new to know.
Lissa in San Diego, mom of six
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about this list--about people always learning. :) My mother wrote that she's
studying for a test she's taking for her job--a test to become a "certified
anti-money-laundering specialist." She made a joke about how it's just what
she always dreamed of being when she was a little girl. It isn't, but she
really enjoys her job, which has to do with banking and computers.
My husband is a comic-book editor. He sent me a jpg of a page of comic book
art that came across his desk today. It's part of a monthly issue of one of
his series. Scott (his last name is Peterson, which comes into the story)
got the pages from the letterer, which means they had already been
pencilled, inked, and colored. Scott forwarded the colored pages on to the
penciller and letterer for review before he had a chance to review them
himself. (As editor, a big part of his job is going over everything at each
stage of the process, from script to printed book.) A little while later the
penciller called him, laughing, wondering if he'd seen page 8 yet. Scott
hadn't. He cracked up when he did look--in one panel there's an old-timey
movie poster stuck to a telephone pole, and the letterer had added, as a
joke, a word balloon with the words "Scott Peterson is dreamy" coming out of
the starlet's mouth. There's a bunch of other dialogue on the page, so you
don't notice at first glance; you have to actually read the balloons and
then it's really funny.
Scott showed the whole thing to me, and we were laughing about it. He said
the really funny part is that when he was ballooning the issue (marking
where the word balloons should go before the letterer does the lettering),
HE had stuck a joke balloon in that spot so the starlet was saying "I love
[letterer's name]." (I forget the guy's name.) Scott wrote me, "Never start
a lettering war with a letterer" and it made me laugh, because that is
definitely something they don't teach you in school!
Both their stories, my mom's and Scott's, struck me as examples of how real
life can take us places that have nothing to do with what we did in school,
and how there is always something new to know.
Lissa in San Diego, mom of six
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Sandra Dodd
-=-Scott wrote me, "Never start
a lettering war with a letterer" and it made me laugh, because that is
definitely something they don't teach you in school!-=-
Years ago I was at a little medieval feast, on the ground, in the
Jemez mountains near Los Alamos. We were in a beautiful meadow,
sitting on the ground along a long table laid out low, with "dragon's
tail (ham in a big pastry with scales) and other artsy food. There
were probably 45 of us.
One of the things on the table was miniature cheese rounds in red wax,
and yellow wax. So one of the ladies at our end of the table made a
rose with her wax, and we passed it down to the queen who was sitting
mid-table, with a message that we challenged the other end of the
table to a contest. When the message reached the other end of the
table, they whooped and scrambled.
I leaned over and looked down there and WHAT A MISTAKE we had made.
They had three professional artists--and SCULPTORS, carvers,
jewelers. And they had four or so great amateurs. I looked around
our end. Musicans, singers, writers. So we quickly made a
concession song and sang it with a harmony after they passed around
their entries, which included a mermaid, a dragon and a sea serpent in
two colors with a giant red wax penis (well, giant for the size of the
sea serpent)--they were doing two-color things with minute details.
So we sang something that ended "...Puffed and wheezed and cut their
cheese, and so we let them win."
That's when I learned the equivalent of "never start a lettering war
with a letterer."
Sandra
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a lettering war with a letterer" and it made me laugh, because that is
definitely something they don't teach you in school!-=-
Years ago I was at a little medieval feast, on the ground, in the
Jemez mountains near Los Alamos. We were in a beautiful meadow,
sitting on the ground along a long table laid out low, with "dragon's
tail (ham in a big pastry with scales) and other artsy food. There
were probably 45 of us.
One of the things on the table was miniature cheese rounds in red wax,
and yellow wax. So one of the ladies at our end of the table made a
rose with her wax, and we passed it down to the queen who was sitting
mid-table, with a message that we challenged the other end of the
table to a contest. When the message reached the other end of the
table, they whooped and scrambled.
I leaned over and looked down there and WHAT A MISTAKE we had made.
They had three professional artists--and SCULPTORS, carvers,
jewelers. And they had four or so great amateurs. I looked around
our end. Musicans, singers, writers. So we quickly made a
concession song and sang it with a harmony after they passed around
their entries, which included a mermaid, a dragon and a sea serpent in
two colors with a giant red wax penis (well, giant for the size of the
sea serpent)--they were doing two-color things with minute details.
So we sang something that ended "...Puffed and wheezed and cut their
cheese, and so we let them win."
That's when I learned the equivalent of "never start a lettering war
with a letterer."
Sandra
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Melissa Wiley
>Hilarious!! Great story.
> Puffed and wheezed and cut their
> cheese
Lissa
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