ImageWriter

Last Monday, I mentioned how recently I stumbled upon my cache of 400+ comic strips that I wrote and illustrated during the tail end of my college career. The comic strip, in case you forgot, was called Cereal. It never actually appeared in color, but thanks to Photoshop, I can turn the official logo into a collection of colorful, sugar-coated letters floating in artificial milk. Just the thing for a high-calorie breakfast.

I also mentioned how Cereal is the reason I was first confused for a computer graphics expert. To learn why--you know, like, as if you care--forge ahead.

Below is a summary of the turning point in my career in one frame. For the sake of modernization, I've added color in Photoshop. But otherwise, the image appears as I created it 25 years ago, six years before Photoshop hit the market, a few months before Adobe announced its existence. It's a blend of hand-drawn line art--which I drew with a real pen on real paper--and computer art--which I printed from a personal computer, cut with an X-Acto knife, and pasted with rubber cement (not Edit > Paste).

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