curious...

[anchoresse]

Dear Mr. Nyffeler,

I have forwarded your request to the specialist department for this sale.

Thank you for your interest in Christie's.

Sincerely,

Mary Hammon Lee
Client Services Representative

I received this email from Christie's yesterday evening. I'll let people know if I received anything else.

[danstiles]

i've been looking at old type books 9i collect them) and have been tripping across several old period typefaces that look very very much like the one you all call "comic sans". so many typefaces were re-named when we all switched to digital that there is like a complete change of typeface names that confuses everybody. names that existed for hundreds of years were switched when digital arrived (all in order to nail down digital copyrights and $$).

so, i guess i'm not yet convinced that the typeface in contention really is a smoking gun. it could very well have been an old typeface re-named as "comic sans". more research is needed.

Comic Sans was created by some engineer at MicroSoft back in 1994. It was inspired by comic book lettering and was banged out in like a day or two. It is not a recut of an older typeface.

[Ink Eye Studios]

We should have a 'fake' forum. That could be entertaining/educational

I think this is a good idea, really.

[Brainiac]

Art, you go on about these old type books that show similar specimens. Great, that proves nothing. Find one that matches this, scan it and post it (I know you can do it, I have faith in you). Then we can all see for ourselves.

If you find one that matches this exactly, you'll make a believer out of me.

[anchoresse]

This was my contribution.

[ryan_1969]

this is how i read your comment.

that's what i should have typed.

[anchoresse]

This was my contribution.

shit, i suck at posting pictures.
i ain't good at this internet.

[art chantry]

brainiac -

you seem to have confused me with somebody who gives a shit.

i just thought the dialog was interesting and all.

i'm just remaining skeptical until proven beyond a doubt.

[scrojo]

i think the year is just the first red flag. very rare to have it on at that time but....... could happen.

altho there is a lot that i can see in this that makes it look legit here are the concerns for me:

-the year on it
-the "comic sans". as art said there were tons of similar fonts before '78 but...... nothing i've seen that so exactly mirrors it. anybody have any pre-'78 examples ????? ( especially a L, A, N or D ).
-the promoter saying that a flyer never existed ( ...... altho at the time there was a lot of fan produced advertising to promote punk gigs. whole different can of worms to open there ).
-the amount of diversity in fonts at relatively the same size. i used to try and do the ransom lettering thing as a kid ( early 80s. roughly the same time period ). not easy to find that amount of diversity at approx the same point size without a huge shitload of mags from a ton of different interest topics.


dunno.

[Brainiac]

anchoresse, you have gone a long way to show the poster is fake by overlaying comic sans.

I want Art to show us it might be real with an old specimen.