HAPPY AT 90 MILES

Here‘s a quick demo on the process from script to thumbnails, to inks to lettering.

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I’m translating the lettering for the Spanish version of this blog, “Happy a 90 Millas”.
With the helpful editing assistance of my wife, it shouldn’t be long before it goes live.

Although I really wanted to letter directly on the page, it wouldn’t be practical, since Spanish takes up more space. Plus once I see all the text up on the page, I find I’m doing small edits that I’m glad I was able to do.

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The story continues, click on the STORY PAGE or this link

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Bloomberg reports that Normando Hernandez Gonzalez was awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writer’s Union. Normando, whose name coincidentally means northlander, is in his sixth year of a 25 year sentence. One of the 29 independent journalists jailed during the infamous crackdown of March 2003 known as “Black Spring”, Normando’s crime was having written critical articles about the failures of the national health and education system.

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I was resisting Twitter for a while, I admit I didn’t see the big deal as most tweets I saw concerned trivial stuff like “Going to the coffee shop now”. I really couldn’t care less about the broadcasting of banalities, but the potential of twitter as a medium became clear to me as the unrest in Iran exploded and Twitter emerged as one of the principal forms of information when traditional news channels failed.

Since I’ve found I use Twitter more than RSS to follow blogs and sites that interest me, and I’m sure there’s other benefits I’m not aware of yet.

So whether you’re new to Twitter or not, you can follow Happy at 90 Miles on Twitter under the name happyat90miles.

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