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| Glamourpuss #1 (April 2008) Art by Dave Sim |
DAVE SIM:
(from the 100 Hours Tour: TCJ, 30 Januray 2008)
On the subject of the lettering on glamourpuss, I think the Joe Kubert font is better suited to the Raymond School work that I'm doing on glamourpuss. I got nominated for awards for lettering...and was fortunate enough to win a Harvey... but it sure wasn't for the straight narrative lettering. My lettering is idiosyncratic but Joe's is a pretty close match to Ben Oda who lettered most of the newspaper strips. Not Raymond's though. If I was at home I could refer to my copy of Tom Roberts' ALEX RAYMOND book I picked up today at Carry On in Waterloo and tell you the name of his two letterers... But, the biggest reason for using a computer font is that I'm able to edit the text right up to the last minute. Hand lettering you have a tendency to just "let it go" because there's no easy way white out whole passages and re-letter over the white out. I can understand you not being thrilled at it, but it's really a "writer over letterer" debate. I'm judge, jury and executioner, unfortunately.
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