...'s comic. I wouldn't say that GI Joe shows all the consequences of violence, but it certainly shows that there are some. Anyway, if they tried to put in all the screams of the dying the letterer would quit. Now, I'm writing this here partly to give myself an opportunity to revisit a minor classic, and to examine it in depth. This has confirmed something fairly obvious -- Snake-Eyes is the main ...
Hey, a post I wrote last Friday that didn't actually get, you know, posted. ***************************** So I made it out to game last night. We've restarted the D&D game, and Lacklow Shadblade, eyestabber, is back in action. The GM had us each generate a series of plots that'll take place in the post-apocalyptic world the game is set in, phrasing them like TV Guide episode summaries. I have...
...already in comics or have studied it, I don't know if they're going to understand. First of all, you say there's other people you work with. In comics, that's an inker, an illustrator, and a letterer and all of that sort of thing. [Jake] Right. [Dan] You're talking about stage directions. For most of our audience who are prose writers, describe what stage directions are and how you do them. [Jake]...
... also wrong in the first panel on this page: http://unnecessaryg.com/lj/superspecial%20%282%29.jpg Those are all the mistakes I've found so far. :( I love this panel, though I think the letterer botched it. Baffling thing -- whose eyes are that in the top panel? Is that Supes or the original Ultimate Man or what? It was around here that I got tired and didn't care any more....
... also wrong in the first panel on this page: http://unnecessaryg.com/lj/superspecial%20%282%29.jpg Those are all the mistakes I've found so far. :( I love this panel, though I think the letterer botched it. Baffling thing -- whose eyes are that in the top panel? Is that Supes or the original Ultimate Man or what? It was around here that I got tired and didn't care any more....
Award-winning letterer Todd Klein has been doing a series of logo studies on his blog -- taking a character like Superman, Batman, et. al. and examining how their logos evolved over the decades. Fascinating stuff if you're a design/typography junkie like I am. In his latest post, I made a small contribution by supplying a scan of an obscure "Robin the Boy Wonder" logo: http://kleinletters.com/...
... which at the time were probably as sophisticated as comics had ever got. Sim had his hobby horses (who doesn't?), but he was a very good writer, an even better artist, and probably the best letterer comics has ever seen. Nobody else can make dialogue ring true like Sim lettering can, which is why I'll try to keep direct quotes to a minimum here because without the lettering, they just look wrong....
I thought "OM NOM NOM" was the greatest sfx I ever got to put on a page, but there is a new champion. I get to the last panel of a page of the animanga I'm working on and look at the script and what does it say? ....... Fx: Pooing Seriously. That's what it says. In all honesty, I think it's supposed to be more of a "poing" sort of sound with a drawn out "O" sound because the character is ...
... ALL BOUNDEN TOGETHER WITH A THICK SPINE or even A COLLEXION OF PAGES WITH PICTURES AND WORDS PRINTED IN SUCH A WAY THAT BOOKESHOPPES CAN SELL THEM TO THEIR PROFIT. Todd Klein , the world’s greatest letterer : I find it a useful term for book-size and book-length comics. I don't use it for collections of monthly comics in general, preferring to call those ‘collected editions.’ Some projects, ...
...We headed back as it got dark and noticed this tower. It seemed incredibly familiar and suddenly... it hit me. I LETTERED THIS TOWER IN ULTIMATE MUSCLE. This horrible, horrible tower! I was but a wee letterer when I had to work with this! The tower itself is pretty cool, the lights on the top tell what type of weather to expect. The shopping area around the tower... I lettered this area too....
