'I'm Comic Sans, Asshole,' The Animated Version

We just caught wind of this via NYMag's Vulture, and we can't stop laughing. This stop-motion animation by Joe Hollier brings the beloved McSweeney's piece, "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole," by Mike Lacher, to life. Lacher personified the font in his piece, writing in its voice and turning it into a little snot with a lot to get off its chest:

"You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes f***ing Gutenberg."

The animation livens the piece up, a.) by animating it, b.) with a spot-on, deadpan voice for the font, as voiced by Stephan Pacuk, and c.) by playing Beirut every time a pretentious font walks along.

Tired of all the haters, he vents, "Enough of this bulls**t. I'm gonna go get hammered with Papyrus."

Be warned: Comic Sans has a foul mouth.

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole from joehollier on Vimeo.

Comments

[michelesda]

01:28 AM on 07/25/2011

So good to see a font beginning to deal with its anger issues.

[Randy Konigsberg]

09:26 PM on 07/21/2011

Please do not become offended. If you a'fend, don't See this.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

10:51 AM on 07/21/2011

Very inventive and funny, but I'll stick with Verdana.

[signgrrl]

03:19 PM on 07/22/2011

meh.

[DaniFoxy]

09:45 AM on 07/21/2011

That is some funny f*%$#@g s%$t man!

[maveet]

07:42 PM on 07/19/2011

OMG, this is the 2nd dig at CS I've seen in the past weeks. It's my email font. After the initial story I thought about changing my font, as it seems to be so off-putting to so many. I picked it 5 years ago as being friendly, easy on my eyes. Not that I write anything or anyone much these days, as I'm one of those over-60 year-olds referred to here by another commenter. Eeeeeek, I can't escape the fashion police even here. maybe I belong back on the thread re no bras.

[metogamekun]

07:10 PM on 07/19/2011

In my early designer days (before computer type,) Helvetica got quite a bit of hatred because of over-exposure. Now it's looked at as a classic.

I doubt Comic Sans will ever reach that status, but interesting comparison none-the-less.

[signgrrl]

08:31 PM on 07/19/2011

ariel is inching up the over-used list. i can get behind some helvetica extended every so often. can't stand Mistral. Kids is even worse than comic sans. OK, i'm done cranking for the moment . . . . . ;-)

[GraphicMatt]

04:06 PM on 07/20/2011

I find myself using Georgia quite a bit. I also like Marigold when a fancy font is needed. It's fancy, but not fru fru fancy.

[metogamekun]

07:04 PM on 07/19/2011

Good innocent fun, much like the font it's about.

Back off, haters. : )

[jlab]

06:13 PM on 07/19/2011

In my life as a designer, I have found that one of the best definitions of "Kitsch" is: Something that tries to pass itself off as something it can't be, for simple technical reasons. A tattoo depicting a script, for instance, or a computer font pretending to be handlettered. The death of such illusion happens in words like "illusion" or "happens", when you see the same letter twice and right next to each other, and they look 100% identical.

[jlab]

06:09 PM on 07/19/2011

Almost funny clip, still a horrible font.

[RJuna]

06:07 PM on 07/19/2011

Poor Comic Sans: The Jar Jar Binks of fontography.

[stradlater]

05:46 PM on 07/19/2011

If only the voice-over weren't so yawn-inducing.

[Ppfffftt]

05:18 PM on 07/19/2011

Huh... they didn't really give a good reason for the existence of Comic Sans. They just said "people suck at taste and you shouldn't care". Then again, maybe they're right.

[deckercat]

04:52 PM on 07/19/2011

that is hilarious.

[BonzaSheila]

04:44 PM on 07/19/2011

I'll take Comic Sans over Jokerman any day. It a Windows standard display font - you see it every where in display advertising and signs, and it's hideous.

[LivelyLexie]

10:51 AM on 07/21/2011

I agree, Jokerman is an awful one!

[Gronkie]

04:41 PM on 07/19/2011

I remember back in the 90's in Cleveland, some emails leaked that showed what a control freak the mayor was, and one of the emails demanded that the only font to be used in emails was Comic Sans.