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themightyfro — Comics Lettering Theory Part 1
Published: 2005-05-17 05:44:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 21922; Favourites: 470; Downloads: 3029
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Here is Part 1 of 2 (see below for the linke to part 2) of the second of my adventures into comics lettering tutorials. This one has lots more picture examples, so I had to split it into two parts. This isn't so much a direct tutorial as an exploration of some of the theory behind different uses for lettering. For example, here we'll be talking about: creating emphasis using bold and italics, the effects of breaking up dialogue in different ways, the use of the double dash (--) and ellipsis (...), color and typography. In the first tutorial we learned what buttons to press, now we're going to talk about how to use that knowledge!Special thanks to and who did the art for most of the example pictures.
Again, I'd like this to be a work in progress, so please give me your questions, comments, complaints, and general feedback!
When you finish, here's [THE LINK TO PART 2 OF 2]
- chris
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Comments: 32
this is very very helpful!!! thanks so much!!! i nearly choked when i read that pirate joke btw lol
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This is a highly informative piece of tutorial for an important part of comic making! Thank you for taking the time to compile all this.
Might I suggest you submit this over to ? It's an active site for tutorials of all kinds and I know a lot more people will be thankful for this.
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Thank you for this Tutorial (and part 2) It's really helping me understand how important lettering will be for my comic.
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Thank for this, I always have a hard time with text boxs.
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Oh, Dr. McNinja. Or specifically; pirates!
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Really helpful, I'm glad you've done this!
(*goes to part 2!*)
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My favourite part is how you exemplified dialogue with characters obviously drawn for a different context. "I've always loved you..." Hilarious!
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This has some interesting info about some stuff that would prove helpful for any comic person.
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I am no comic artist, but your tutorials about them are very interesting...I read comics, but never stopped to consciously think about what all those techniques meant.
And that pirate joke is *awful!!!* LOL! I laughed my rear end off at it. I love it!
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that last comic made me laugh so freekin hard... XD
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its not workink man i cant see any thing
please check this up
thanks
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great toutorial, just what i needed
It would be great if you would do a nother toutorial about layouting and general theory on drawing comics.
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Wow, this is a really good tutorial, I am trying to make my own comic but I am having a hard time with the lettering. This is extremely useful thank you very much. The dashes were completely new to me, I am definitely going to use them. Also figured I made my balloons to big. Once again thank you.
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Very, VERY Interesting!
Thanks for shawing the knowledge!
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these are just GREAT!!
Thanks alot, i've just recently been dealing with alot of "lettering issues" working on my own crap
(submissions and what-not) and your tutorials REALLY just hit at the right time, thanks!
If I ever make it to where I wanna go, and you wanna job? it's YOURS! ahahaha!
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You're welcome! And yes, I'll take the job!
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HAHA- yeah, i don't see that jappening ANY time soon- but yer definetly @ the top of the list!
(who the hell am I kidding? there is no list- you are the list.)
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Very well done... I didn't find anything to complain about at all... very helpful indeed.
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intersesting, i actually learned alot in that. thanks chris. and aaron, and meg. lol. thanks for the tips. really helps me out.
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You're welcome, I'm glad it helped!
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