No sweat, Ron, I was just yanking your chain a little bit.Originally Posted by W3WN
Well, I haven't for years now but I'd be willing to take stab at working something up for you.Do you freelance? I have an idea for a "logo" for my club newsletter, but I can't draw a straight line by hand, despite my father's best efforts...
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Yeah, I saw that as I went down the thread. No worries.
Regarding the artwork (let's call it what it is)...
I'm thinking of something in black & white, color not needed. Thinking on the lines of the classic 'Gil' cartoons, or Otto Eppers W8EA/W2EA drawings for QSL cards (see http://www.arrl.org/otto-eppers-making-waves & http://picasaweb.google.com/w8jyz.Bo...ardsOttoEppers#)... and considering that the club's initials are WASH & the newsletter name is The WASHRag...
Imagine a tree on the left side, a line proceeding right, with a caricature housewife hanging laundry on it, or laundry hanging on it and said housewife is stereotypically gossiping along a fence behind with a neighbor. Suddenly, the line (no longer a laundry rope) has a coax feed on it. The line proceeds left (either to another tree, a building, or just into thin air), but the coax feed swings down into the back of a radio on a table (seen from the side?) with a ham yakkin' away at a mike, or pounding brass, or something. Thus playing on the "wash" pun.
That's the general concept. If that's workable (and I'm thinking of a top-of-page masthead or logo), I'll leave the sundry details up to you.
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I don't think I'm the man for this one, Ron—I'm a lousy cartoonist. Palm trees and clouds are one thing, what you want requires somebody with a different set of skills from mine. I appreciate the offer, though.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
OK. Hey, it was a thought.
I regret having lost touch with the artist who designed my 1979 WN3VAW card. Her name is (was) Sally C. Fink, I knew her from Penn State and the SciFi fandom group up there at the time; I met her through her boyfriend/fiance/husband/ex-husband N3CHT. She did some really gorgeous pen-and-ink work, and she was kind enough to do the drawing for me (not for free... of course, the $25 it cost then was a lot more money than $25 today!). She also did artwork for George's card, and for a card for the Penn State club (which I also own -- the artwork that is, well, after all, I paid for it!). Then we drifted apart after she and George moved back to Johnstown, and I lost touch with her, and later, him. Pity. I hope she is doing well, but I haven't heard from her in years.
WN3VAW 1979.jpg
I recently scanned the card, and did a little manipulation on the caligraphy, so I'll be able to use it again with W3WN -- after all, it was just a little re-arranging of the letters.
(By the way, the artwork IS copyrighted by me, just in case anyone asks. I really like this card, but I just don't want to see it become another "generic" drawing that someone out there is selling, ya know what I mean?)
Last edited by W3WN; 07-12-2011 at 11:06 AM.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
These guys wanted a dog with tits but said this was too risque.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
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These guys wanted a dog with tits but said this was too risque.
LCD monitor spittle here ...
Well the knob is pretty cool. Maybe two knobs, strategically placed.
Ham Island url on the left one, your callsign on the right one.
Back of the shirt: "Gretchen's Fan Club", and more Island Ads.
Eh?
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I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
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