Glenn Fleishman Crowdfunding New Book on Type, Printing
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Printing and comics historian Glenn Fleishman has launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish a print hardcover edition of articles and stories he’s written over the last 15 years on the topic of type, printing and language. The 128-page book is called Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It.
According to his Kickstarter, the book’s chapters are:
- Nothing Is Lacking: The earliest uses of marking a page as intentionally leaving something out.
- CAPITAL CRIMES: Why we SHOUT with UPPERCASE.
- The Ten-Millennium Safe: A website plans for the far future.
- The Quibble with Online Quotes: Will the Internet kill off curly quotes?
- Look Askew: Slanting type is like stealing sheep.
- Noto Bene: Google builds a massive typeface to represent all the languages of the world.
- You Can’t Quote Me on It!: Email and forums ape an ancient textual device in marking quotations.
- “A Font of Type”: Walt Whitman was a hipster 19th-century Brooklyn printer, and this poem has deep roots in his background.
- What a Relief: While letterpress seemed destined for the junk heap, it has made a surprising comeback.
- A Crank Turns a Letterpress: Your author spent hundreds of hours walking a carriage on a press back and forth and thinking about what it meant.
As of this writing, he’s raised over $4,000 of the $7,000 minimum he needs to produce this book.
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