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Minister of Sound posted:I work full-time as a letterer. In my experience, when poo poo like this happens, it's usually at the writer's behest and the editor will have their back. I suspect that's what happened here. If a letterer tried this on their own, they'd probably be replaced. Oh dear. Well, I hope the writer changes their mind, then.
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Minister of Sound posted:I work full-time as a letterer. In my experience, when poo poo like this happens, it's usually at the writer's behest and the editor will have their back. I suspect that's what happened here. If a letterer tried this on their own, they'd probably be replaced. My apologies; I maligned your profession unfairly. I assumed it was in the script as "What caused those SEIZURES?" and the letterers went ham on it as opposed to just bolding 'seizures' in the word balloon. If you can answer -- is my assumption about comic companies subcontracting lettering (and, increasingly, coloring) for financial reasons true, or is it around having a flexible labor pool to guarantee fast/on-time issue completion?
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Admiralty Flag posted:My apologies; I maligned your profession unfairly. I assumed it was in the script as "What caused those SEIZURES?" and the letterers went ham on it as opposed to just bolding 'seizures' in the word balloon. Oh, you're good! No offense was taken! I just wanted to shed some light on how this may have happened, and that was a perfectly valid thing to assume. As for subcontracting…it depends on the publisher. Marvel has mostly used freelance letterers since the early 90s, but I think that was the letterers' call more than Marvel's. The ones I know of who worked for the bullpen found they could make more money freelancing (and do it from home), so they just went for it. DC had an in-house lettering department until the late-2010s, and I reckon it folded for the reasons you stated (plus most of their lettering staff didn't want to move from NYC to Burbank, so they were short a few hands anyway). As for colorists, I can't really say, except companies haven't had in-house colorists since the rise of digital coloring.
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I know IDW, while not allergic to using freelancers, has a stable of in-house letterers (who also serve as production designers; seems like a lot of overlap between the two positions these days); when one of those guys got the axe back in last year's layoffs (Shawn Lee), some of the books he was the main letterer on (like Sonic and TMNT) opted to continue having him do lettering freelance
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A really standout cover by Terry Moore/James Offredi https://twitter.com/PatShand/status/1759610168063508643 
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold is still keeping it interesting. This is from #11.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Batman: The Brave and the Bold is still keeping it interesting. This is from #11. love the texture on this page
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What texture? I'm pawing at my screen and I can't feel anything.
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Lobok posted:What texture? I'm pawing at my screen and I can't feel anything. They mean texture like with food, obviously you have to lick your monitor to get it.
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Grendels Dad posted:They mean texture like with food, obviously you have to lick your monitor to get it. Ah thill on't theel a'ythih
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 Blue Beetle #44 (1946) Pencils/Inks: E. C. Stoner Colors: ?  Tales to Astonish #20 (1961) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg  Manhunter #17 (1988) Pencils: Grant Miehm Inks: John Statema Colors: Julianna Ferriter  Prophet #10 (1995) Pencils: Stephen Platt Inks: Marlo Alquiza Colors: Byron Talman and Extreme Color  Extreme Sacrifice Epilogue #2 (1995) Pencils: Marat Mychaels, Stephen Platt, Rob Liefeld, Pat Lee, Cedric Nocon, Todd Nauck, Karl Altstaetter Inks: Danny Miki, Jon Sibal, Norm Rapmund Colors: Christian Lichtner, Nathan Lumm, Extreme Color
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Eye've arrived, surely. Also, the Manhunter picture would look so much better without the giant Turtley Urban Rage Fighters-logo. Also also, I assume Crypt's and Prophet's weaknesses are laserswords and giant axes, respectively.
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I had to check something  Still a bit scuffed, but in a way you could write off as stylised exaggeration
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Batman: The Brave and the Bold is still keeping it interesting. This is from #11. This is great. I LOVE the use of contrast and the whole "so loose it's tight" style. I really struggle to implement when I draw anything no matter how much I try. A lot of people think that artists who work loose like this are cheating but, trust me, you really have to be a good draftsman in the first place to pull it off. It's just my style, but I could never really loosen up enough to bring this type of surreal texture to my stuff in ways that didn't look sloppy. Gravitas Shortfall posted:I had to check something This, on the other hand, is trash. ... Darthemed has been posting a whole lot of older stuff that can be easy to dismiss or laugh at and may look awkward but I always remind myself just how little photo reference artists had to work with 60 or 70 years ago. Imagine trying to draw a realistic looking taxi cab, phone booth, alley or newspaper stand with nothing to look at. One of the first things they taught me in art school as an illustration was the importance of building a photo library. I still have mine.
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https://twitter.com/ComicsXF/status/1779975088659689973 this pose...
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Wolverine is a drama kid singing his heart out.
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Endless Mike posted:I love when Wolverine does other stuff He's the best there is...
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Endless Mike posted:I love when Wolverine does other stuff He might fight Omega red, too!
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Push El Burrito posted:Wolverine is a drama kid singing his heart out. So let's recap: ugly, Nordic, bowels, d-e words. Now all you gotta do is hunch all up on yourself, pretend you're holding a mystical orb in each hand, and let the evil flow forth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72NKRyX1NA
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