Kurt Busiek on Will Eisner
An excerpt from ‘Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way’ on Eisner’s brilliant title page designs. With the passing of comics legend Will Eisner in February 2005, we thought it fitting to post this...
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Lettering Showcase: Ferran Delgado
Lettering artist Ferran Delgado painstakingly recreates Marvel title pages of yore for the Spanish editions of Marvel Comics. Here we present some of Ferran’s fantastic title pages, along with his...
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The Comicraft Glossary of Lettering Terms
Ever wondered what to call those little lines of weathering on the bottom of Sound Effects? Now all you have to do is check The Comicraft Glossary of Lettering Terms — from Air to Zig-Zag Tail, they’re...
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Lettering Roundtable: Thinking About Thought Balloons, and Other Abandoned...
A discussion on comics storytelling with Tony Isabella, Lee Nordling, Kurt Busiek, Mark Verheiden, Lovern Kindzierski, Richard Starkings, John Ostrander, Steve Leialoha, Todd Klein, Keith R.A....
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Tutorial: Pop-Up Letters
This fantastic technique was shown to us by Saul Griffith, who publishes a series of how-to comic strips called “Howtoons.” Saul helped us design a “Popup” face for our font Up Up And Away font to make...
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Tutorial: Creating the Moritat font
The creation of Moritat’s lettering font for Elephantmen War Toys: Yvette. A day’s work compressed into three minutes… Watch JG create the regular weight of Moritat’s lettering font for Elephantmen War...
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Tutorial: Font Creation
Moment-by-moment creation of our Sound Effect fonts SHIVER and SHAKE About this time last year, we presented an extremely condensed version of our font making process. Apparently *some* people thought...
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How I created the Angry Birds Logo
It’s true — I designed the Angry Birds logo! And it required very complicated technology: a Sharpie. I shared this step-by-step process with the Lynda.com blog. As a graphic designer working in the...
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The Making of a Comic Book Page, Start to Finish
A look at how a page of Astro City is produced, from script to published comic, originally written for the Lynda.com blog in anticipation of Comic-Con in 2015. San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing this...
View ArticleVox.com: Where the ‘comic book font’ came from
Vox took a deep dive into the history of comic book lettering for this video, with Rich and John along for the ride. “The distinctive style of handwriting in comic books is an aesthetic shaped by...
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