Contact him at:
fgs (at) fritzswanson.com
Illustrations by Jason Polan
Goofy Type Fritz Made:
Fritz Old Style, 1776
Fritz Roman
Fritz Roman Nova
Special (K)
I wrote an article for LSA MAGAZINE about the first governor of Michigan, the founding of the University of Michigan, and the financial Panic of 1837.
Steven T Mason, Boy Governor and Founder of the University of Michigan
The Believer - The Last Man For The Job
Your average letterpress-printing[1] enthusiast probably shares this earth with more than sixty thousand like-minded souls. For instance, Briar Press, a popular letterpress community on the web, has nearly sixty thousand registered users. In other words, you could populate a reasonably sized small city with letterpress enthusiasts.
The Believer - Micro-Interview with S. T. Joshi
This issue features a microinterview with S. T. Joshi, conducted by Fritz Swanson. Joshi began his career as an H. P. Lovecraft scholar at the age of seventeen, in 1975. The compilation of criticism, H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism, that Joshi began as a young man led to a comprehensive bibliography of Lovecraft’s work released by Kent State University Press. He now acts as the unofficial curator of Lovecraft’s life and work, editing the definitive editions of Lovecraft’s fiction for Penguin Books, and working to release all of Lovecraft’s extensive correspondence. Joshi is also a scholar of H. L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce, and has pursued his scholarship independently, without a PhD or the support of any academic institution.
My article about William Howard Taft's Desk in the Fall 2010 issue of LSA MAGAZINE
The article is called "A Piece of History", and it starts on page 60 of the Fall 2010 issue of LSA MAGAZINE. (pdf)
Jason Polan and I just did a four part story for Abe's Peanut: A Micro-Magazine for Children. It's called "The Fish" and it's about a raccoon.
