Font Jokes and Pynchon Illustrations [Uh Bailey, I Think Your Dork is Showing]

First, this pretty hilarious video about fonts courtesy of the College Humor gang. Despite my strong feelings about Comic Sans, this was pretty great:

And second, this artist named Zak Smith has made an illustration for every page of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

For example, here's Page 1's illustration for "Beyond the Zero."

You can find the rest of the illustrations on Zach's site. They were part of the Whitney Museum's 2004 Biennial and are now part of the Walker Art Center's collection in Minneapolis.

For those unfamiliar, Gravity's Rainbow is the book you trot out at parties when playing the How Pretentious is My Dickishness Game. (I've read it twice since I'm totes pretentious and have a Biggish Dickish. I just write in LOL-internets speak to reach my wikipedia-mushed-minded readership out there! Hi Guys!)

Hat tips go out to the gang at Videogum and Mike for the links.

I promise I have something way less dorky and more low-brow in store for you tomorrow!