Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella 1987: "Michael Corris has produced an outstanding contribution to the book world with his 'Typographic Samples Pictures and Polemics', which is reminiscent of the spiral bound books of typographic samples available to you at print shops or at art supply stores, to allow you to select type fonts. but this book has a twist, in fact, several twists, with the addition of politics, wit, color and allusions to art history, making this one of the great books of 1986, if not for the 1980s in general.

"In this large sizes (11 x 17 inch format), the pages are divided into three sections, depending upon the title. Under Samples, we get the closest approximation to the sample books, each page illustrating typefaces in various sizes, where the names of the type fonts are given. Yet the texts are from E. P. Thompson (re: nuclear war and the deformation of culture), Brecht (from poems and essays), and Corris himself (re the various problems and solutions created by the computerization of the print shop).

"The second part deals with the various 'Logos for Artists' which are politically charged phrases creating decorative poster-like flow charts, such as 'Art is a Weapon' and 'For Art and Capitalism.'