When I first saw print ads featuring a prime when they meant to use an apostrophe, I considered it the sign of another amateur who got his first computer. When a similar gaffe appeared in a Time Magazine ad—the ad must have cost $30,000—I could imagine how my parents...
So I was thinking… how fast can I introduce the improper use of the ellipsis? Not bad, eh? Just three words in. It's not curing cancer. But I'm a print book designer for independent authors. When your book goes out into the world, there are thousands of picky people...
"Mick" is Michael Campbell, a book designer, graphic artist and writer. His humor column, The Dumpster, closes every issue of Food & Spirits Magazine. Author of Are You Going To Eat That?, and the new 2017 book of seventy hilarious all new essays, Of Mice and Me.