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...little relationship between the line drawings of a cartoon such as Nancy and Sluggo, and the Old English lettering of the banner of the newspaper in which the cartoon happens to be running. But there is a crucial connection between good cartoonery and fine calligraphy, and David McClelland's one-man show at Adams House proves this...
...Lampoon cartoons, McClelland developed an incredible distinctiveness of style which is notable for a young artist. When one sees a McClelland cartoon, one knows it without reading his name...
...this exhibition of lettering and line drawings, McClelland shows that his work is no chance flash of genius: that he has been involved in intensive investigations of line and form and letter which contribute to, complement, and fit in with the humor...
...McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear formality. But the letterlines and page forms have a universal meaning independent of phonetics or linguistics. They be-speak exoticness, magnificence, and respect-compelling beauty...
Taking another step away from the traditional page, one can impose additional meaning on words and letters by organizing them in pictorial images. Apollinaire did this, as do the concrete poets. McClelland works in this genre with Dylan Thomas' words from "Fern Hill...