Chip Kidd on 'the Typographical Equivalent of Bad Toupees'

Monday’s Wall Street Journal shout-out to the typographical albatross that is Comic Sans (audience shudders) sent us straight to the UnBeige office copy of Chip Kidd‘s latest book, Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Pantheon), in which our intrepid graphic designing hero—with trusty sidekicks Geoff Spear and Saul Ferris—rescues original Japanese Batman comics from the jaws of obscurity. Assembling the book posed a number of challenges, not the least of which was rounding up as many of the elusive Jiro Kuwata-drawn comics as humanly possible and having them translated to English.