A guide to coloring comics in Adobe Photoshop by Olyoptics’ Quinn Supplee
Overprinting and Trapping EPS Lettering Files
Preventing white halos using overprinting in Illustrator.
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Pasteup in QuarkXPress
How to combine lettering and artwork files using a page layout program such as QuarkXPress.
Making Word Balloons
Techniques for drawing and placing word balloons on the comic page.
Curved Type
How to curve text using the Free Distort tool in Illustrator
On Typography
Martin Strong is a student at Monash University in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) studying Visual Communication. As part of a brief for Typography, he had to choose a typographer that gave him inspiration. He chose John Roshell, because of his interest in comics, and the way typography was used throughout the layouts. With a chosen typographer in mind, he had to interview the typographer, and design a book where the interview would be included. Here is the interview.