Lettering Comics

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

TODD:

Now that you're here with us (Welcome, aboard!) I can ask my stupid silly 
fanboy-type questions.

First of all, congratulations on the Eisner Award!  (As big a fan of Tom 
Orzechowski as I am, I don't get the feeling his lettering would transfer 
well into the Duck books.)

Second, will you be lettering more of Don Rosa's stories for Gladstone?  
I hope so, because I've seen more than one Don Rosa story which I enjoyed 
greatly but had the potential for being ruined by ugly-looking 
lettering.  (Guardians of the Lost Library immediately comes to mind.)  
And although Gladstone's coloring is top-notch (Susan Daigle-Leach is 
brilliant.), their lettering often leaves something to be desired.

And as I just mentioned in my last letter to the list, I don't much enjoy 
the computerized lettering in the Duck books.  I didn't mind it too much 
when it popped up in a story a few weeks ago, but it really turned me off 
in U$A #35.  (This is ironic because I like the way Jeff Smith, John 
Byrne, and Richard Starkings letter with the computer.  But maybe that's 
because they letter with their own hand-writing scanned in, rather than 
using a standard computer font which Gladstone seems to be using.)

-Augie
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