Tenth Letter of the Alphabet: Arizona State University

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Monday, April 27, 2015

School Days: Tom Harter’s Lettering Class

Tom Harter was an advertising design instructor at Arizona State University. One of the core courses was lettering. Below are the plates, by C. Elliot Smith, from Harter’s lettering folder.

Below are my lettering assignments from 1972.

One of the assignments was to collect samples of type styles and put them in a binder. I did the title lettering and illustrated the cover with an image from the first issue of Marvel Premiere. Afterwards I decided to add the lightning bolt to Warlock’s chest; the bolt was glued on and has since fallen off and disappeared.

(Next post on Monday: Quicksilver)

Monday, June 16, 2014

Comics: Phoenix Con 1970 and 1972

Phoenix Con

November 27–29, 1970

Advertisement in RBCC 75

Phoenix Con 1970 article in unidentified newspaper
reprinted in RBCC 77

Phoenix Con
June 16–18, 1972
Direct mail postmarked May 8, 1972

Advertisement in RBCC 90

Phoenix Con ’72 Program Booklet

All photographs by Alex Jay

C.C. Beck with his Phoenix Con award

C.C. Beck and Captain Tootsie with his prize,

a Beck original drawing of Captain Marvel

Most of the costume ball participants, from left to right:

Captain Tootsie (2nd prize best costume), C.C. Beck in front of Superman,

Captain Marvel Junior, Doctor Strange (1st prize best costume),

Summer Hamilton as Minnie Mouse in front of her father, Bruce as Ibis,

and Don Newton as Captain Marvel.

Cheers! Robin, Superman, Captain Marvel Jr. and Captain Marvel.

Beck and Newton

Summer Hamilton

Doctor Strange with his prize,
a Don Newton Batman illustration

Don Newton painting of Captain Marvel

The Arizona Republic

June 15, 1972

Tucson Daily Citizen

June 16, 1972

RBCC #95

(Next post on Monday: Chinese Oreo Cookies, Part 3)

Monday, March 25, 2013

School Days: ASU Graphic Design Workshop

The Graphic Design Workshop, at Arizona State University, was organized by Tom Hall and Ray VarnBuhler. The photo (below) is of some of the students in the first two workshops. Front row, left to right: Dave Redding, Alex Jay, Jo Litton. Back row, left to right: David Morgan, Chip Kettering, Francisco Zuniga, Mary Bushard, Maryann Leake, Greg Pentowski, Gary Hill, and Tom Hall.

The program was featured in the design magazines Communication Arts, May-June 1977, and Print, November/December 1978.

Gary Hill

Clockwise, top left: Gary Hill; Mary Bushard;

Dave Morgan and Dave Redding; Mary Bushard

Clockwise, top left: Maryann Leake; Chip

Kettering; Dave Redding; Leon Dunn

Top, left to right: Dona Nelson, Jean Wong, Juliana Packer (behind),
Christy Fankhuser, instructors Tom Hall and Ray VarnBuhler, Brian
Lovell, Dale Campbell, Sheryl Lieb and Tom Chung; bottom: Gary Hill