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Having finished with the Man of Steel, today’s episode is the first of three looking at the best Caped Crusader stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast’s very own Vince Ostrowski ...
Have you ever wondered why comics are lettered in all caps? If you’ve been a comic reader for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard a variety of reasons, but unless you’ve heard of the Ames Guide, ...
Strawberry Shortcake returns to comics! And along with her comes the return of one of her most nefarious foes, the Purple Pie Man! Join us for the launch of this berry special two-part story ...
Comics historian and illustrator, Greg Theakston has passed away at the age of 65. Theakston, who used the pseudonym Earl P. Wooten, was known for his research as a comics historian under his ...
The time has come during our celebration of lettering for a showcase of some particular lettering samples which merit discussion all on their own. By necessity, these selections will be limited and ...
Welcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) and an easy place to get bored if you don’t make your own fun. Hobtown Regional High’s top girl, Dana Nance, runs the Teen Detective ...
In the final installment of our three part look at the history of comic lettering, we’ll be examining the rise of computer-assisted techniques. Like nearly all other areas of modern life, new ...
“Run For It” opens with a Bantu slave sitting angrily under a dark cloud with the title of the first story, “Kalunga.” The word refers to the the grandness of god, the sea, and death. It’s a good way ...
Adding letters to images, as a practice, dates back centuries. We examined the early methods and the thoughts behind them in part 1. Largely, the work was crudely done by cartoonists who were ...
As Lettering Week comes to a close, we’re squeezing in one last interview. This time, it’s Rus Wooten in the hot seat, whose work you may recognize from a myriad of popular titles like “Invincible,” ...
As teased in today’s final issue of “Blue Beetle: Graduation Day,” Jaime Reyes is receiving a new ongoing series this September, which will reunite “Graduation Day” writer Josh Trujillo, artist Adrián ...
Welcome to “Keeping a Watch on Doomsday Clock,” our column dedicated to annotating the first ever DCU/Watchmen crossover that most of us probably didn’t need but is here nonetheless! Since this ...