Glenn Fleishman

I started in graphic design and writing for publications in high school, received a B.A. in Art from Yale University, and spent the intervening decades contributing to the Economist, Macworld, the New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, Increment, MIT Technology Review, Boing Boing, the Atlantic, TidBITS, and many other publications.

In 2017, I revisited a long interest and study in type and printing by becoming the designer in residence for the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, producing a book that year by letterpress of my reported work on visual, typographic, and language history, called Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It. In 2018, I published London Kerning, about typographic history in London. In 2019, I wrote Six Centuries of Type and Printing, tracing printing from before Gutenberg to the present day.

In 2020, I produced a series of tiny type museums, each containing unique printing and type artifacts as teaching sets. In 2024, I published How Comics Were Made, a visual history of newspaper comics production and reproduction. It will be released in 2025 by Andrews McMeel Publishing as How Comics Are Made.

I won on Jeopardy! twice in October 2012, a very exciting footnote to all the trivia I've learned over the years. I live in Seattle with my family, spending my spare time walking, idling, reading, and cooking.