AWE Lettering 1996

October 1996 Newsletter (9611)

Introduction.. .

What's up all.. Just wanna say a few things about AW
E before you go andview the second pack.  AWE
is brought to  you by two of the greatest fontis
ts aswell as two of the  nicest guys i've seen in the
computer art world.  These two,aside from be
ing  able to draw some of the  best fonts known  to t
he scene, havetaken the time  out, approximately four
months ago, and  taught me how  to drawansi fonts..
Now, they both moved  on to create a new kind of gr
oup in the ansiscene, a group that respects the views
of the logo artists, a group that is madeup of.. wel
l, logo artists, and some of the bests, i must say. I
'd like to thankeveryone in  the group for  being par
t  of this logo  breakthrough in the scene.AWE
is more  than a group, it is  also a redefinition
of ansi logos, which havealways  been overlooked.
Now, on that  note, welcome to the  second pack of
AWELettering...
Mass Murderer (iCE)
Informations.. .

Hey, The Night Angel speaking..  Wh
at's up?  Nothing much happened thismonth except mayb
e our bud The 4th Disciple leaving the group
for Klex something( a group  founded by
Dieznyik ) and  a few  new faces to AWE.
These new facesconsist of:

∙ Cheeze    :  Formerly of Eclipse, he joined AWE a
fter the death of his group.I think he is pretty
well known to the scene.  He is like, a newscho
ol toon god or something  ;)

∙ Pzyko     :  I first saw this guy in Eclipse, eve
n though he has been in a
couple of other groups.  His style looks a bit like wei
rd graf- fiti..  I dunno how to call that, but h
e is DAMN good, so check
out his stuff.  He rules.

∙ Samurai   :  Coming from Dark, Samurai will be du
aling with a new group he
started, which is called Project 3oi or something.  I t
otally
fell in love with that Earth/2 logo he released in Dark
(I dunnowhen though), so I let him in, and beg
him to see more fonts
like that one.

∙ Skold     :  Here's another guy from Eclipse.  He
is also known as Sir Death.I just dunno which n
ick he decided to take, so lets call him
Skold for this month :).  He's coming to AWE from ACiD
I think,
which he has been in for a month or something, after le
aving    Eclipse.

∙ Warpus    :  What can i say about her? She's like
a phunk master.  I would'veliked to say more, b
ut master defines quite well what she is.

∙ Widowmaker:  That guy came to us from Eclipse too
(we like, got all Eclipse
members after the death of the group  :).  Widowmaker u
sed to   draw some kinda newschool fonts.  But a
fter helping him a bit,
he became some kinda weird graffiti-looking fontist, I
really
have no idea how I could describe him.  I'm pretty happ
y he has
been refused to iCE, so we're going to have ALL his log
os in thegroup.  It's just to bad for iCE.  ;)

These guys have all some pretty cool stuff this month, check
it out.

This month, we  were also proposed  by Halaster
to  merge with Fire andcreate the Fi
re Font Division.  I kinda liked  the idea of bei
ng in  Fire, sinceHalaster is a prett
y  cool guy.  After talking  a bit with Fluor
, we agreed thatit  would be  better not  to merge.
We were  also proposed  by The 4th Disciple(b
efore his departure) & Dieznyik to merge with
a new  group created by Dieznyik(I think).  A
fter puting the  channel +i, kicking a few people and
having a longtalk, we decided that we weren't  gonna
merge with any groups, since it does notcorrespond w
ith the idea we have on AWE.  So don't even b
other asking.  :)

A pretty sad thing happened at the beginning of the mont
h, which is thedeath of a totally  awesome group:
Samsara.  The death of the group is a pretty
weird thing to me, since i haven't read the Samsara
newsletter yet.  As far as Iknow, Eerie
decided to kill the group, because he reached his goa
l, which i haveno idea what  it was, but was certainl
y  not that hard to reach, since they onlyreleased  f
our packs :).  Anyway, we hope  every members  of
Samsara enjoy theirstay wherever they are no
w.

But unfortunatly, the death  of Samsara brings
us a  problem, which isrelated to  ansi pictures
:  where are  we gonna release  our pics now?  W
ell, asfor now, we only have a few, so we do not care
that much about it, but we shouldhave a lot  more ne
xt month  (December 1996).  So after  giving
out  ideas aboutwhat to  do with em, we  finally agre
ed on something:  every month, if there areenough pic
s, there  is gonna be  a zipped file in the pack, whi
ch is going to becalled PICSyymm.ZIP,  where
"yy" is year  and "mm" the the  month
of the presentpack.  So every month (we hope so), th
ere is gonna be a zipped file with all thepics.  I'd
like to say that the idea came from Legend, w
hich used to have a filecalled FONTSxx.ZIP wi
th  all the logos  of the month.  I remember how piss
ed offi was when  i saw the Legend Homepage,
with that  text from Neurotic, explainingwhy
they  were doing this.  They said it  was because "
fonts aren't art".  Well,Neurotic  (
if you are  reading this, which  i really doubt :), i
don't  considercomic  rips has being
art either, so fuck off.  Oh, and another
thing, i don'tconsider those "fonts" you
put under your pics has being art.  <major grin>

But, we're are still talking about that zip. Some people
agree and someothers don't.  As  for now,
I doubt there  is ever going to ha
ve a PICSyymm.ZIPfile.  So like, forget that
paragraph I wrote :).
I wrote  that paragraph two weeks  ago, that's why we
kinda changed ourmind.  But I still think what I wrot
e about Legend and Neurotic.  ;)

" Members Speak ".. .

Btw, Warpus wanted to say a few things to all of
you, guys.  So here isher little letter...

There's  something I'd like all  of you to  know.  Contr
ary to  popularbelief I'm actually a chick. I
've been trying to be a guy all my life. I dressedup
as a guy, and I even......  But I won't get  into that
(thank tna).  A coupledays ago I realized th
at what I was doing was stupid and just...  Not fair
to myfriends.  Sorry I've been lying to  all of you a
ll these years.  I'll make it upto you.  Somehow..

I know this must come as  a shock to some of you, especi
ally my friendsfrom  519.  But...  What can
I say?  I was  just trying  to fit in.  I was justtry
ing to be cool.  Please forgive me...

Signed, Warpus

There's also Widowmaker who wanted to blabble a
few things. Here's whathe's got to say  :)

Word,  this is  Widowmaker here.  Well, as  you
may  or may not know, Ifucking BLEW before I met TNA
and Fluor.  I love you guys and I owe alot to you,bec
ause you  have both helped  me and influenced  me so m
uch in the past severalweeks.  I've come a long way
from the time I met those guys a couple months agoand
I  really appreciate  what they  did.  Also, Warpus,
I seriously  wanna knowwhat the fuck you are?  :)  OH
!..  I'd also like to add a comment about my homiesir
death:  "I can mack any bitch" -sir death.  Well, me
and infusium decided tosee if this was true or not, s
o we all went to the mall  or whatever and fuckingput
him  to the test.  FUCK THAT, THE CHICKS  DIDN'T EVEN
FUCKING LOOK AT HIM!..HAHAHAHAH!..  Sorry Brian, I h
ad to man, now you get one cut on me :P.. ANYWAYS,I h
ope everyone loves the AWE pack, I know I'm going to..

Later,
Widowmaker(AWE)
Useless Stuff <g>.. .

I've included a copy of Cheeze's discussion with
Nom de Plume (aka SoulManager) in th
is month  pack because I feel kinda concerned about w
hat happened,since the guy used my name to get Sp
inal Gamma's setup and that Rai, Defi
ant andCheeze  are friends of mine.  But
I'm not including AWE in this "fight"
.  I justthought it'd be the best way to let people k
now that there might be another fakeThe N
ight Angel on their board.

Oh, yeah, another thing:  that lamer said  he was going
to take all theFree Coke  ansis that  have be
en done, make  a setup and run it.  So like, don'tcal
l the fake Free Coke and wait 'till i get my l
ine.  :)

Conclusion.. .

This  Month, I would  like to dedicate  the pack  to The
Despised  (aka Maestro)" Keep up the  go
od work, Steve; You'll become  as elite
as you used to be! :) "
I would  like to greet the  following  persons for different
reasons, which arefrom help and comment
s, to providing us some inspiration, etc.

Magnetic M, Aphex Twin, Syntax Error
, Lord Jazz, Eerie, Halaster,
Iodine, DeeplyDisturbed, Cold an
d Ugly and finally, Mass Delusion.

I would also  like to greet my  girlfriend, Annie, w
ho went to some stupid partytonight, so I can have th
e time to get that second pack out.