20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nom. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.
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Do you have the most comprehensive guide to modern comic lettering ever written? It's just $13.34 on Amazon, and it's still got 4.8 stars! 256 pages, full color! Written by Nate Piekos, Introduction by Tom Orzechowski, and published by Image!
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The Big Shakedown continues this week with issue #2, available now! Details: bit.ly/4z6Gczr
The farther Ester searches, the more she must confront the ghosts of her own past...
By Jordan Blum, Tim Seeley, Scott Koblish, @hificolor, and @blambot
ALT Cover of The Big Shakedown issue #2, illustrated by Scott Koblish
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D'ORC 12
Raawk is dragging D'orc to the Dark Realm, kicking and screaming. But all hell breaks loose when they reach an outpost full of Minaurs, wicked little beasts that mine the caves for the war. Soon everyone will be kicking and screaming, biting…dying… And a LOT of it.
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The Umbrella Academy: Plan B returns with issue #5, available now! Details: bit.ly/3TzJJGR
As the Sparrows plan their counterstrike, Dr. Zoo races across the cosmos hoping to reunite the Umbrella Academy!
By Gerard Way, @Gabriel_Ba, Dave Stewart, and @blambot. With covers from Bá & Warwick Johnson Caldwell
ALT Base cover of The Umbrella Academy: Plan B issue #5, illustrated by Gabriel Bá
ALT Variant cover of The Umbrella Academy: Plan B issue #5, illustrated by Warwick Johnson Caldwell
Remember that big green canvas I was going to throw out last week? Decided to give it one more try: “Arsenic” pics soon.
Lovely day. Working on the official Toth font (bold) and listening to early Foo Fighters in the studio.
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Absolute Justice #1 cover process.. digital sketch, pencils, digital colors, etc..
All Blambot webfont files have been updated with the latest formats. If you've purchased a Webfont license, re-download your purchase for a free update.
That time I was about a foot away from Stevie Ray Vaughan’s trusty No. 1 Stratocaster. #sacredrelic
Hey, kids! Tape! On a big-ass canvas! Wowzers! But seriously, I decided to throw away that green one I was working on. There was just no saving it. Starting fresh…with TAPE!
Lovely day. Just delivered proofs for the first issue of an unannounced Dark Horse project. Jumping back and forth between other small projects and font designs for the rest of the day.
The alphabet for regualr and bold sets of whatever this condensed sans project is turning into...is designed!
Over the weekend, I started painting on the biggest canvas I’ve ever attempted (24”x30”) and was really unhappy with where it was going. In frustration, I slapped a bunch of moss green paint over the whole thing. The under painting gives it an interesting texture anyway.
In mainstream comics, I consider the letterer to be the first READER of a comic. We're the first to see the script & art married with dialogue. If your letterer doesn't understand something, or loves a particular scene, that's a good barometer of what's working...or not working.