Member Si_… Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Has this come up before? http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/19/the-spirit-gets-two-posters/ Link to comment
Member Vla… Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 So forties! Aside from this fanciful usage, lettering made of bricks has an ancient heritage in Chinese and Islamic architecture. Bricks of different colors or in relief would form the outline of square-shaped letters in a frieze. Here is a an examplehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/youngrobv/884594610/ This style later evolved into an Arabic lettering - and now font - style called square kufic. Sorry sii if this is not exactly the intended direction for this thread! Link to comment
Member fru… Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 My guess was the Sand Saref - Sans Serif "coincidence" Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 >My guess was the Sand Saref - Sans Serif “coincidence” That's a shame. :-( I'm not really into graphic novels, I've lived most of my life sans comics. Link to comment
Member Mar… Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I strongly doubt the name "Sand Saref" is a coincidence. Punny names are not uncommon in The Spirit comics. The poster with the buildings turned into letters is very much in keeping with the graphic style of The Spirit. Eisner often worked the title of the strip graphically into the opening "splash panel" of his comics like that. The poster may even be based on one of them. Link to comment
Member Vla… Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 As to Sand Serif herself, one must admit she is a very modern type with an extra bold character...http://www.comicbookbrain.com/_large_spirit_darwyn_cooke_no_12.php Link to comment
Member Jac… Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Phew, for a second I thought this was going to be about something else ... Link to comment
Member Jan… Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Wow - Frank Miller is directing The Spirit movie? Great! Watching Eva Mendes in that costume is probably already worth it. Link to comment
Member dez… Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Now that is a film I will have to see just for the character's name alone! Although Si is right about the skillful rendition of curves. She may even deserve a TDC award as in "Too Damn Curvacious" :-) Was that story cooked up in a FontLab, BTW? ChrisL Link to comment
Member Chi… Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Is she from San Serriffe?https://typography.guru/forums/topic/53808-forwarding Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Wow... I guess Frank Miller got a taste for directing when he did the Sin City flick with Robert Rodriguez! That first poster is way cool... The second poster is very hot, but doesn't really look like it's part of the same series... :-) Link to comment
Member eeb… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This thread now has a female poster. I preferred the typographic poster, myself. --- eeblet.com Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Me too, Eeblet. This evening I saw a triptych poster for the film in midtown New York, but it's not like either of the posters linked above. I'll see if I can take some pictures over the weekend (if the posters are still there, that is). Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Oh, by the way, here are some images of The Spirit and Sand Saref, as drawn by Will Eisner. Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 More on Sand Saref, the character (comic book character, that is). Interestingly, the site mentions that "Eisner patterned many of his women on movie stars of his day. (...) Silk Satin was Katharine Hepburn; Sand Saref was Lauren Bacall..." Try to live up to that, Eva Mendes! Link to comment
Member eeb… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Nice links, Ricardo - I don't care much for Will Eisner's comics, but his approach was brilliant and influential on almost anything interesting or good being done today in comics. It seems there should be a huge crossover between fans of type and fans of comics/graphic novels... of all the art forms, comics takes its lettering most seriously. (Daniel Clowes & Chris Ware are not my faves - but, oh, they can letter! So can Crumb. Damn.) --- eeblet.com Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You know, speaking of R. Crumb, I believe Steven Heller dedicated the book Handwritten to him, with an introduction that displayed many examples of Crumb's lettering over the years. (I don't have a copy of the book now, but I once borrowed it from the Brooklyn Public Library.) [EDIT] And yeah, I agree -- those guys (Ware, Crumb, and others) are damn good when it comes to lettering, titling, etc. Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 The trailer and the website of the movie are up: http://www.mycityscreams.com/ Checkout the "Downloads" section for wallpapers that use some of the elements from the posters. Link to comment
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