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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.
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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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