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X-MEN Vol. 1, No. 1. October 1991

I am so relieved that this is one of the “salvage survivors” in my comic book collection.

I mourn the ones lost, such as X-MEN #30 (The Wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey), The Uncanny X-MEN #300, and the gate-fold cover issue/version of X-MEN #1. FML.

X-MEN Vol 1 No 1 October 1991

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Jessica Zafra on Umberto Eco and “The Lost Art of Handwriting”

The lost art of handwriting (in pencil)

The lost art of handwriting (in pencil)

The lost art of handwriting (in ink pen)

The lost art of handwriting (in ink pen)

Would these scribbles above have passed the inspection of Jessica Zafra’s second grade teacher? Would Umberto Eco gauge my cursive handwriting to still have “soul, style, or personality”? I also write in all-caps (I’m a Gemini, born in the Year of the Horse, and took up three years of Architecture at University).

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