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By the Letters: Taylor Esposito Has Big Plans for 20200
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- January 15, 2020
Taylor Esposito ended 2019 with more than 1,300 issues to his credit as a letterer, and has hopes to do lots more for the new year. Drawing on his years of experience as a graphic designer, moving on to the Marvel Bullpen, and then achieving his dream by becoming a staff letterer at DC Comics,
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Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren #1: How Ben Solo Got Swole-o0
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- January 8, 2020
I know you’re here for Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren #1, but have you heard about CATS? Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster of a musical based on TS Eliot’s charming cat poems was just made into a film by director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables, The King’s Speech), to a slew of incredible critical pans
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As We Say Goodbye to Giant Days, John Allison Introduces Us to Steeple0
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- September 18, 2019
As I write, Giant Days is one day away from its final issue. A four-year telling of a three-year period that came hot on the heels of (and partially concurrent with) webcomic stories that creator Allison has been working on since 1998, as well as anther BOOM! title, By Night, Giant Days was a phenomenon
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A Gathering of Letterers0
- Art & Design
- June 3, 2019
If you’ve been following By the Letters since the series inception early this year, you know that I’ve been spotlighting the fine art of comic book lettering and have featured a few interviews with letterers, including Ariana Maher. We’re a big fan of roundtables at WWAC, so I asked Maher if she’d help me get
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Letterers: Jill Gerber on the Unsung Heroes of Comics in the Classroom0
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- March 12, 2019
When it comes to using comics in the classroom, letterers are truly the unsung heroes of the medium, according to educator Jill Gerber. In our earlier Comics Academe interview focusing on how the use of comics has evolved as a literary teaching tool, Gerber, an award-winning educator and consultant, explains that lettering is one of
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Into the Letter-Verse: Blambot’s Nate Piekos Talks Lettering in Comic Book Movies0
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- February 18, 2019
In our previous interview, Nate Piekos shared his processes and passions within the world of comic book lettering. He also expressed his disappointment in a recent superhero movie that clearly had not consulted a professional comic book letterer to ensure the authenticity of their film’s comic book aesthetic. The film Piekos was referring to is,
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By the Letters: Taylor Esposito Has Big Plans for 2020
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A Gathering of Letterers
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