2 Responses to “IN A HONKY TONK IN TEXAS”

1. Adam Norwood Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am

   The photo that’s been blacked out on this one adds a nice extra layer. I like that it doesn’t detract from or conflict with the text, and that small amount of color gives the page some nice warmth. Kind of like a faded memory or a static-y image on an old tv.

2. Austin Kleon Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 11:46 am

   Thanks, Adam! I’m glad you noticed: it was a happy accident (I think this article was about a new George Strait CD…

   I used to play around with images more in these things:

   A batch from way back

   A more recent one

   In fact, in the beginning I called them “Newspaper blackout COMICS” because of the text/image combinations…but they’re not comics: they’re poems.

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