Friends of Type

Drawn by Aaron Carambula

In Mad Men season 3, episode 4, “The Arrangements” there’s a poignant scene where Grampa Gene puts a Pickelhaube (Prussian spiked helmet) on Bobby’s head and Don insists he take it off. “It’s a dead man’s hat, take it off.”

Coming from a man bearing a fallen soldier’s name, it struck me harder than Don’s usual hat-ettiquette. The spiked helmet inspired these letters, which are completely anachronistic and irrelevant to the topic.

This is what happens when I watch TV and draw letters.