Showing posts with label adventures in lettering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventures in lettering. Show all posts
30 January 2014

Balloonacy at the B.C.R.

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This evening the Boston Comics Roundtable did an activity I invented called Balloonacy. It didn’t pan out exactly as I’d imagined since we’...
12 October 2013

A Look at Leroy Lettering

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Letterer Todd Klein describes using the Leroy tool used regularly on EC horror comics in the 1940s and ’50s. That lettering was done by J...
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02 October 2013

It’s All Dutch to Me

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One of the most interesting mini-comics I picked up at the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo this weekend was Daniel Pucca ’s My Dutc...
01 September 2013

Elements of a Digital Dynamic Duo Story

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“Elements of Crime,” the story in Legends of the Dark Knight , digital issues #63-65, features a version of the Dynamic Duo never seen bef...
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19 August 2013

Is Analyzing The Killing Joke Like Dissecting a Frog?

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Retiring Batman scribe Grant Morrison went back on Kevin Smith’s Fat Man on Batman podcast this month and proclaimed his interpretation...
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23 June 2013

Little Gotham and the Rough Edges

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I read through Batman: Little Gotham , #10-12, this month. It remains one of the last vestiges of the DC Universe that existed before the cu...
18 October 2012

A Wrinkle in Lettering

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Powell’s really really really needs to add Madeleine L’Engle as a linked author on its webpage for Hope Larson ’s adaptation of A Wrinkl...
23 September 2012

There, I Fixed It: Tim in Batman, #0

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This month’s Batman , #0, contains a story scripted by James Tynion IV and drawn by Andy Clarke which shows the new DC Universe’s Dick Gra...
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15 July 2012

Don’t You Hate When This Happens?

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These panels are from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight , #150. Pencils by Trevor Von Eeden, inks by José Luis García-López, script by J...
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25 March 2012

“Robin Is a Shadow of a Shadow”

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The last weekly Robin looked at two ways DC Comics responded to the unexpected popularity of its new Robin character in 1992. This is abou...
16 February 2012

3G, IEPs, ADHD, and Fangbone

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When young prehistoric warrior Fangbone reaches “our world” in Michael Rex ’s Fangbone: Third-Grade Barbarian , he tries to blend in with o...
15 January 2012

“The Guardianship of Dick Grayson!”

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“You must have read how Batman first took charge of a young boy named Dick Grayson ...whose parents, The Flying Graysons of circus fame, ha...
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11 December 2011

Robinson’s Visual Inspiration for Robin

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In further honor of the late Jerry Robinson , this weekly Robin quotes from his 2004-05 interview by Gary Groth for The Comics Journal on...
04 December 2011

Panel One in Nightwings Seven

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Above is another example of a single comics panel showing Nightwing in several poses , instants apart. It appears in Nightwing: Freefall . A...
19 November 2011

Eleanor Davis Shows the Invisible

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I can’t keep writing about how comics “show the invisible” without pointing to Eleanor Davis ’s delight-filled The Secret Science Alliance ...
18 November 2011

“The utter eradication of thought balloons”

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Once established (as discussed yesterday ), thought balloons became a valuable way that comics creators could “show the invisible,” which I...
17 November 2011

“Characters were constantly speaking to themselves out loud”

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At a new blog called Comics Without Frontiers, Miguel Rosa traces the development of thought balloons in the first year of Superman and Sp...
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30 October 2011

Finishing New Teen Titans: Games a Bit Hastily?

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The last few weekly Robin installments have celebrated the art of George Pérez in New Teen Titans: Games . There are many more examples to...
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24 October 2011

Weekly Robin Extra: More Pérez Panels

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Here’s another example of striking design from George Pérez in New Teen Titans: Games . Just before this sequence, the Titans have learned...
09 August 2011

Washington’s Surrender Message

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The Washington Post columnist John Kelly recently wrote about the mystery of who painted “Surrender Dorothy” on a railroad bridge near the...