Scriptorium

omics and Illūminārī are in many ways distant relatives. I think if you showed those scribes some action comics, they'd be all over it. To clear my conscience; this is an art joke about comic book art. The genesis for this was that it is very important for me that people do not confuse Jack Kirby with the most hated lord of darkness Rob Liefeld, who we despise. Someone suggested as much the other day and it rocked me to my core. I shudder to think that there are people out there who think of Rob Liefeld when they think about comics art- so consider this a PSA.

Anyways, let me know if this is against the rules since it's not exactly an article. As if I would ever publish a magazine without some funny pages— it is simply an essential component of the newspaper experience. If I was going to do a comic strip for Scriptorium, I would have to call it 'Marginalia', it is just too ample and bulbous a fruit not to be picked. I like naming things, it's just part of my thinking process.

I'm a big fan of the penny arcade format of comic with accompanying blog post, so maybe that'll be my way of cheating the printhouse rules if I ever wanna do another one of these.

~ Your friend,