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Here's how to lay out the illustrations. They divide into four classes:
1. Crunchly cartoons from the original `Crunchland' tableau.
2. The Crunchly strips proper.
3. The new Crunchly cartoon by Guy.
4. The `blivet' illo.
5. The `eat flaming death' panels.
Almost all the Crunchly cartoons are grouped into 4-panel strips (the
exceptions are the big tableau spread that started the series, #1
above, the 3/17/76 strip consisting of 8 panels, and the 5/1 strip as
noted below). The early ones (before 10/4/75) are physically grouped into
4 panels per original page. The 10/4/75 strip is spread across two
pages. All the later ones are inked in a larger size, one panel per
original page, except for the 5/1 strip which is a three-panel strip
spread across two original pages.
In almost all cases, we want to use the cartoons in their four-panel
groups, reduced to a uniform size and occupying a page each. The
exceptions are (again) the vignettes from the tableau spread, and the
8-panel 3-17-76 strip, which gets broken up into three groups:
Panel 1: Runs on the section-heading page for the lexicon.
Panel 2: Runs as a single panel in-line with the `batch' entry.
Panels 5-8: Runs as a four-panel group with `flushed'.
The three-panel strip from 5/1 could either have its own page or be
run in-line, 3 panels across the page.
This uses all the Crunchly strips except the `surfers integral' one (5/24/73)
and panels 3,4 of 3/17/76.
The vignettes from the tableau should be reduced to single-panel size
and run in-line with their entries: likewise for Guy's all-new `C'
cartoon (#3). There will be three of these:
Ada: The PL/1-FORTRAN dialogue (caption: `Nowadays we say this of Ada.')
C: The SNOBOL-C dialogue
(caption `The Crunchly on the left looks a little ANSI')
LISP: The APL-LISP dialogue (caption `We've got your numbers...')
Real World: The RPG-COBOL vignette (caption: `Life in the Real World.')
Note that the SNOBOL crunchly is paired with a new cartoon by Guy; a
crunchly labeled `C', saying `Number crunching used to be double
trouble for me, but I'm more single-minded now.'
All the full-page illos will be captioned. If the full-page illos are
set flush with the top of text, then on a 26 x 49 pica layout that
should leave about five lines of text at the bottom. Captions are
already set in the text.
In the illustration references below, a `full page' illo will have its
own page facing text; `in line' illos will be run following their
entries. Each date labels a Crunchly strip (#2); numbers following a
colon are panel numbers. The `vignettes' are the four pieces of the
Crunchland tableau described above. The odd ones out are the `blivet'
and `eat flaming death' illos.