I think this means I’m going to have to develop the typeface. Just think, Yermom on campaign posters. Yermom on album covers. Yermom’s ligatures, ascenders and descenders. And of course she has some mean drop caps.

Buy A Shirt And Kick Cancer’s Ass

If you buy the “Beards Turn Laziness into Awesomeness” shirt or the new “Moustaches Turn Lazy into Classy” shirt, I’ll donate $10 per shirt to Movember‘s prostate cancer research. So buy one! Or two! Or ten! The holidays are around the corner after all.

Show Tonight in DC Metro Area!

If you’re in Virginia or anywhere in the DC metro area, you should come to an all graphic design-based Super Art Fight show. It’s tonight, for free! Here’s the basic info:

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm LAB at Artisphere
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22209

And here’s a link to more.

Listen to Me Prattle On

Fes of the Webcomic Beacon has started a newscast to cover the latest news that applies to webcomic fans and creators. The idea is to have a show somewhere between 2 weeks and once a month. We’ve recorded one so far and while it’s a little bumpy, I think it’s still worth a listen. Here’s the site, let me know what you think!

Thanks to Systemic and long-time friend of The System Marty Fn Day for sending me this amazing poster. Well he sent me a link to the poster. If he actually sent me the POSTER that would be way cooler. Hear that, Marty? Huh?

It’s a painstakingly detailed image of almost 1,000 different zombie references from movies, books and games all in one great poster. The site even lets you zoom in and pan around to see all the references! Definitely worth checking out. Seems like they may start making more of the same, be sure to stay tuned to FreakingAweso.me.

CHECK IT OUT »

NSFW but hilarious and amazing. Cee-Lo’s “F**K YOU.” – Boing Boing

When one person sends me something, I strongly consider posting it. When 5 people do, I give in already. Thanks to all of you Systemics who sent it my way, it is a good read.

Written from the perspective of one of the most reviled typefaces, McSweeny has put together a manifesto of sorts from Comic Sans.

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

Very much worth a read. LINK »

It’s been entirely too long since I posted cool typography links here on the site, so here are two.

The Big Caption is a companion site to The Big Picture. They take whatever the latest “Big Picture” photos are, and add great (and often hilarious) captions to the image. There are some running themes throughout it’s so far short run, such as “Haters Gonna Hate” and “Hipsters Start Your Photocopiers”. All in all a great site that’s fun to look at. My favorite though is probably the most famous so far, “Fuck you, flowers”. Did I post that one before? I can’t remember. Well it’s awesome. LINK »

Music Philosophy is a link I found via my favorite music site, Aurgasm. They take music lyric quotes and make awesome poster-style images out of them. Here’s a clip from one about The Beatles from “We Can Work It Out”. Could you tell? Check out their site, it’s colorful and fun. LINK »

Finally, one piece of business before I wrap up this post. Does anyone actually read these posts? Click on the links? Enjoy what I’m posting? The blog segment has fallen by the wayside lately, and while I do it for my own enjoyment I’m curious if people enjoy it, miss it when it’s not here, etc. Even if you aren’t a frequent commenter on the site, drop me a line via a comment or however else you feel like and let me know if you read these posts. Or conversely, post and let me know if you don’t, though in a bit of a Catch-22 if you don’t you probably won’t read this to see that.

If you ever have trouble picking a typeface, check out this handy flow chart that leads you through the process. It’s not just handy, it’s also really funny. “Everybody loves Garamond” and the like.

• Via Inspiration Labs »
• The Designer’s site »
• Link to the big chart »

Also one on the trustworthiness of beards. Thanks to all the people who sent this in!

• Link to the big image »
• Link to the creator »

Also learned from experience: self-referential comics never work.

Remember, the CUPCAKE SANDWICH contest is running this week. 2 entries so far, so your chances to win are pretty high! All you have to do is enter.

A lot of you guys are nice enough to send me links to things. They’re generally pretty awesome but tend to build up in my inbox or sitting in a tab to remind me on my browser. Here’s a few of them:

A bad font pun thanks to Systemic Krystyna. LINK »

Systemic Nick sends in a link to a recent episode of The Daily Show. Around minute 4 watch out for a drawing that looks eerily similar to Jimmy the Murderdog… LINK »

Systemic Cledwyn sends word of a typeface that is dynamically generated based on a photo of your face. Sadly not available for download, but the videos seem awesome. LINK »

That’s all for now. See you guys soon! Feel free to send more cool stuff my way, I may just post it.