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Re: Undergroud comic fonts

#3113
From: The Napoleon of Crime
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1988 17:22
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In article <4928@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Somebody slipped me a disk of Mac fonts that were grabbed from a
>BBS somewhere.
>
>They are extremeley ornate works of art in the style of some
>rather well known comic artists - R. Crumb, SClay willialms,
>Spain, Rick Griffin, ``Bondo'' bob, etc.
>
>Now, I'm trying to track down a legitimate source of these
>fonts, as I'm sure these were pirated.

These are the "Mac The Knife" set of fonts; it was originally sold through
Miles Computing.  I bought the set when they came out -- excellent display
fonts from the Underground daze...  Miles, I believe, has gone out of
business, but I'm pretty sure Dubl Click Software (18201 Gresham St.,
Northridge, CA 91325) has bought a lot of their stuff up for their own
Wetpaint clip art and World Class Fonts -- I know they grabbed a lot of Mac
the Knife's clip art.

Good stuff, but all bitmapped...

                        "Not bad.  Were you aiming
                         for the Ferarri?"  
                                                   "Yeah, but I thought it
                                                    would have made a bigger
                                                    dent."
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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
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Subject: Re: Undergroud comic fonts
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Date: 21 Jul 88 17:22:37 GMT
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