Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 28, 2012
May 27, 2012
May 29, 2012
Transcript:
Caulfield: Why do we have Memorial Day? Frazz: We don't ever want to forget out past wars. Caulfield: Oh. I think first a lot of people need to remember our current one. Frazz: If I had a joke today, I forgot it.
See, in Caulfield’s line in the last panel, where the word “one” is on its own line? Typographically speaking, a hanging word like that is undesirable, but I can’t help but notice how easy it would have been to move it up to the line before… It’s almost like it was moved down intentionally.
In typesetting, such words are called orphans (some call them widows). In this Memorial Day strip, is this little orphan a subtle, solemn nod to those orphans and widows of war?
I like to think so, but I’m probably just reading into it way too much.