DEVELOPEMENT HISTORY


The original set of symbols, as seen in Dispensation throughout THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS, was created from memos sent by Dobbs to Rev. Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond, thence circulated among the talented artists Paul Mavrides, John Hagen-Brenner (aka Hellswami Satellite Weavers), and Dr.Howll Robins.
Some of the symbols are extremely common, even prosaic occultic runes and glyphs. Others are brazenly displayed versions of the most secret Seals of Solomon. Yet others are but common mere-hume advertising materials of a bygone age, somehow imparted with deeper meaning than their makers could ever have comprehended in the furthest reaches of their wildest dreams or most perverted late night phantasies.Yet others are mere "clip art".

In the year 1997 (12-1-0 b.x.), the SubGenius artists and scientists at Atom Funway Plastico succeeeded in remaking these classic hypnotic designs from their cave-painting originals into path/vector based virtual recordings, or "fonts," from which the modern SubGenius may build a new "weltanschlang", or "way of viewing the world." New symbols were developed by the Funway laboratories and were inserted into the Hieroglyph Set at that time. There may be future ALL-FUNWAY sets to come.

The SubGenius Hieroglyphs are © 1997 by REV. IVAN STANG -- PAUL MAVRIDES -- HELLSWAMI SATELLITE WEAVERS -- HAL ROBINS -- ATOM FUNWAY - IR. REV. FRIDAY JONES - PAPA JOE MAMA

The image of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of The SubGenius Foundation, Inc
Use only with permission, all rights reserved. Thank you.

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AN EXCERPT FROM STANG-FUNWAY RESEARCH NOTES:

STANG: Anyway, I can't believe what hours you must have poured into this! Is there a plug-in that converts line art to paths, vectors etc, or have you been lining these vector paths up by hand? Either way I KNOW it's gotta be MAJOR TWEAKIN' CITY!!

FUNWAY:There is automatic tracing of bitmaps but it looks like shit. It comes out very sloppy. These are hand drawn one curve at a time. Yeah, this took some time but I have LOTS of that. Vector drawning is slow but very smooth and accurate. It is fun, but not near as fun as we'll be havin' USING the fonts.

I was thinking tonight that this will be something that non-graphics-arty types will be able to have FUN with. I think it could inspire a lot of non-artists to do art things. Because the symbols are so great, no matter what you do with it , it's gotta be cool. I mean, they'll be able to make SubG greeting cards and posters and signs in a word processor!

STANG: Well, that's part of the POINT of this whole church -- any fucking amateur IF IT HAS HALF A BRAIN AND SLACK AWARENESS (and a Membership Card!) CAN DO A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN TWENTY WELL FUNDED CONSPIRACY CORPORATE COMMITTEES!


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