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.
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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.
Tutorial: Font Creation
Moment-by-moment creation of our Sound Effect fonts SHIVER and SHAKE
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…
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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 this as easy as pie!
Mmmmmm, pie….
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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. DeCandido, Steven Grant, Trina Robbins, Marv Wolfman, Tim Eldred, Howard Cruse, Jackie Estrada, Bob Ingersoll and Steve Lieber
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 all here!
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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 thoughts on the lettering process, and the answers to a series of questions he posed to us.
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Kurt Busiek on Will Eisner
An excerpt from ‘Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way’ on Eisner’s brilliant title page designs.