True or false: out of all the people who work on comic books, the least important is the letterer. True! Okay, class, that was some good learning. See you tomorr– what's that? Letterers aren't just a ...

Since pioneering Digital Comic Book Lettering in the early 90's, we've fielded a lot of font requests. Usually they're along the lines of "Can you make a Will Eisner font?" (that came from Will Eisner ...

Comics conjecture tends to revolve around story and illustration, with journalists and fans giving borderline-exclusive attention to those two trades while neglecting the more subtle elements of the ...

Richard Starkings has seen and experienced a lot in comic books. Over the past four decades, the writer/editor/letterer has worked for virtually every major comic book company, and as part of his ...

Usually, when comic books are discussed, the focus is on the muscular, super-powered folks who generally inhabit them. They’re the ones, after all, who get the merchandising deals and the movie ...

[Editor’s Note: This article is originally from New Year’s Eve 2009. Add a penny and the rest still applies for New Year’s Day 2011.] It’s easy to complain about the soul-eroding tyranny of ...

Liesel Van Helsing has got to be the world’s luckiest hunter of vampires. There she was, having survived a plane crash in the Himalayan Mountains, when she happened upon an icy cave inhabited by ...