CUSTOM LETTERS at COMIC CON

THE COMIC BOOK VENDOR with the moustache sneered at me.

I’d asked him a simple question. Now, he seemed offended.

“You wanna take a picture of what?” he asked.

“The letters.”

“The letters?”

“Yes. Some of the lettering.”

“And why is that?”

“Because…I like letters.”

He went silent. He was studying me.

“Okay, fine, you can take some pictures,” he said, finally.

He watched me carefully, and at one point, he showed an interest in a few of the lettering examples I’d chosen to photograph.

“You know, I’ve never noticed some of this stuff,” he said. “Interesting.”

He managed a thin smile, and I smiled, too.

And so went another awesome Comic-Con, which ended Sunday in San Diego.

The San Diego Comic-Con is an annual celebration of fandom, a pop-culture explosion of freaks and geeks, nerds and noobs, Twilight addicts, and grown men in spandex Tron suits.

It’s also a chance for the world to get a sneak peek at what’s in the pipeline—film, TV, comic books, toys, and video games, among other things.

On Sunday, amid the chaos of more than 30,000 people roaming the hallways of the Convention Center, a few of us checked out the custom lettering, which was drowned out by the heavy presence of Comic Sans.

Stuart Sandler (Font Diner), Rian Hughes (Device Fonts) and Nate Piekos (Blambot) were among those spotted over the course of four days.

And for a few hours on Sunday, I tried to capture some of the Custom Letters at Comic-Con. Not the greatest photos ever, but with Chewbacca and Pikachu hovering about, it was easy to get distracted. 😉

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