DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Forward to the Past: Nostalgia for Handwriting in Scribblenauts and The World Ends with You

I might be able to use this in my “Media and Culture” class next term. The handwritten word or the hand-drawn line is a material object as well as a sign — as is whimsically demonstrated in the silent cartoon “Comicalamities” (1928), where Otto Messmer draws Felix the Cat in pen, and Felix then starts…