Comments on: Enter Tabby-Cat!

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:27:38 +0000

Hey Chris, I appreciate your concern, and your crit about the ‘n’ might be legit, but I adore this font and have never had any trouble reading it.

My pal (and French comics superstar) Bannister created it, and I think he and I are the only people using it in the world. I get constant requests to give it out, but since it’s not mine to hand out, I always say no. The only reason I’d change is if Bannister updates it himself.

By: Vito

Vito — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:14:14 +0000

i laughed out loud looking at this yesterday. The book title was great, but the fact that he’s talking in a thought bubble…instant classic

By: ChrisM70

ChrisM70 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:14:23 +0000

Mr. Trippe,

I think your art is really great (Butterfly is great) and I really enjoy reading your blog, too.

I did want to make one critique about the above strip:
It looks like you are using a pre-made comic book font for the lettering.
There’s nothing wrong with that, except that the letter “N” in this font is pretty terrible. It’s slanted in a way that when placed next to a straight letter like “i”, it ends up making the letters merge into a “w” – and that makes the strip hard to read.

I know it’s a pretty picky comment, but I’m kind of a font fanatic so I just had to say something.
Anyway, keep up the great work!

Chris M.