I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
MERRY CHRISTMAS ANS HAPPY HOLIDAYS!Ever since I've been using a computer with the joy of changeable fonts I've wanted to write something in Webdings, so here it is. Any good cryptographers in the crowd? This one should be fairly simple.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:40 AM
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Artist, writer, filmmaker, actor. Wrote "The Evil That Men Do" starring Charles Bronson. "Missing in Action" starring Chuck Norris. Performed one-man play "Einstein" off-Broadway and in Europe. Tours US with "Meet Mr. Wright," his one-man play about Frank Lloyd Wright. Art exhibitions in Italy and U.S. His work as a cartoonist has been seen in MAD magazine. Illustrated the children's books "How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy" and "The Man In the Red Bandana" about his nephew Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, written by his niece, Honor Crowther Fagin, Welles's sister. Author of novel "Firebase," published in UK by Constable and US by St. Martins Press. For many years an avid student and reader of Tarot. Performs weddings as a Los Angeles County Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage.
13 Comments:
It is no wonder to me that the Hebrew name "Mary" means "bitter"! Have a Wonderful Christmas from me too!
Am I supposed to see something in code?
Kate, the heiroglyphics beneath the cartoon spell something. (This is a font called Webdings that is provided with many computer word processing programs, including Blogger.)
I don't see any hieroglyphics.
Are they hidden?
I can't see encrypted things; sometimes because of the colors and sometimes because of the lack of depth perception on my part.
Can not see the hieroglyphics either. Sorry.
The two lines between the cartoon and the text. (Don't get hung up on the idea of Egyptian heiroglyphics. There are other kinds you know.) And if you can't immediately decipher and read them, well, that's the idea, right?
Friends,
The Three Wise Men, whom I just bumped into at a Holiday Inn on their way back home, tell me the secret to decoding John's message is to copy it and then paste it into a Word doc. On some programs the heiroglyphics will automatically be converted into standard English; on others, simply highlight the letters and choose another less obscure font. Viola!
It was already converted into English on my computer, which is why I didn't know what John was talking about.
Mine was already converted too... so no fancy webdings for me I'm afraid...(but I do know of what you speak) LOL
I still have not found out what the message is. I went to one of my word programs to help find out and they have 3 different webding scripts to work my way thru. kat
It says Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays on my screen in what looks like Times New Roman?
>>on my screen in what looks like Times New Roman?<<
New Roman? Very appropriate. I wonder what Old Roman looked like?
Pontius Pilate?
Looking now from a different computer I have Webdings!!! Darn it... I just wish I didn't already know what it says! LOL
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