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During our recent trip to Kansas City to hang out with the coolest people we could find (a successful endeavor to be certain), we quite accidentally ran into two dudes doing the exact same thing, only across the entire country. Then, in fact, we discovered they have not only been through our town (no doubt on a train car or dusty back road), but they knew our friends and, in fact, have profiled some of them.
They seemed polite enough, you know, for hobos. I don’t think they were actively being malicious or mischievous, but the way they afford to travel the country is, sadly, accurately depicted in the strip. Pray for them that they don’t knock on the wrong door.
Or that they do. I’m not here to judge your level of evil.
Apologies for the big, long Labor-Day break. I spent it working, which is, as they say, a problem I’d like to have, but sitting down to do today’s comic, which was meant to be posted last Friday when this kind of news was still relatively new, felt like going back to Calculus after spending a whole summer forgetting how to do it.
If you missed it, Michael Bierut, perhaps the nicest design mega-star (again, if there even is such a thing), brought two of my worlds together when he announced on the Pentagram blog that his team handled the new iteration of the Guitar Hero logo. This, of course, includes an entire Guitar-Hero typeface design, and endless visual interpretations that seem to center on fire and rock. Brand New, of course, has a great dissection of it as well.
Bierut gets the credit, and I really don’t have a problem with that, but the actual designer on the project was a fellow by the name of Joe Marianek, and the typeface itself was designed by Kai Salmela. The common problem with working at Pentagram and not being Michael Bierut or Paula Scher (or any of the other 18 or 19 partners) is that you often get overlooked by the masses when you do something awesome. The way around this, or so I’ve heard, is to start four or five of the most successful design websites ever, and even then you still have to quit to get noticed.
But it’s still no Rock Band.
Thanks to everyone who’s been commenting and sending nice things about the strips lately. I thought Conad’s been getting a lot of the limelight that past few weeks here, so I’m switching it up for a few strips. College is back in session, so maybe portfolio reviews are just where my head’s at these days.
I tried, valiantly, to watch Batman, Mask of the Phantasm the other night on NetfliXbox, as it was Donovan’s assertion that it was the one 90′s-era Batman movie to top Batman Returns, but alas, no, that movie is not better better than Batman Returns. Maybe it was when you were 12, and I have a huge amount of respect for that animated show and everything it did, but no. And, again, this is for the third spot on the overall Batman list. My next fact-finding mission will be the 60′s Adam-West historical epic. Mostly I’m just happy to incite random conversations about things. There’s a part of me that wants to do it again, right now…
Ahh, maybe I’l wait until Friday.
Even though I’ve been at it for two years, there’s still a lot about freelancing that I continue to learn and re-learn on an almost daily basis. The idea of not getting comfortable, ever, is one of those lessons.
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Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
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