The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for April 16, 2023

So that’s where it started!!!

I call it hieroglyphs in a high wind, myself.

The pharaoh’s not font of the look.

He’s giving writing a new slant.

Wouldn’t it be more like egyptics?

It’s the Cursive of the Mummy.

So that’s how the Sphinx lost its nose! It bumped into a non-italic ankh.

After an Italian visiting Egypt

Italics is like talking during a wind storm.

The pharaoh seems not to be taking a lively interest with the innovation. Nor does he seem overly ankh-cious about it. Perhaps the scribe is too glyph, too Ra-Ra.

Dem Italian’s always into leaning stuff. Pisa be kind.

Really!

Amenhotypeface.

He invented it after a serious bender.

Great one, Scott!

Bold choice!

Italians write in italics; residents of Paris, Brussels and London write in capitals; people in Boulder, Colorado…well, you get the idea.

Actually, sort of makes sense. “Italic” comes from “Italian,” and those pesky Romans did take over from that Cleo babe, so …

Of course, “Italic” came from the renaissance, so there’s the time warp factor. But now that time travelers are regularly telling us our future, what the hey? Anything Goes. (Which is from the 1930s, I believe.)

Very funny…