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Each month, we answer a lettering question, or provide a tip or trick
via our Balloon Tales website and newsletter. Here's the latest entries:



icon Tutorial: Creating the Moritat font

July 1, 2009

The creation of Moritat's lettering font for Elephantmen War Toys: Yvette. A day's work compressed into three minutes...

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icon Text and the City: Route 66

April , 2009

For spring break this year, I drove the family through SoCal and Arizona in an RV. The Grand Canyon was jaw-droppingly awesome, but the highlight of the trip for me was cruising Route 66 and looking for old road and motel signs. The family thinks I'm weird, but too bad -- I'm driving!

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icon Production: Aged Comic Cover

July 1, 2008

How to create an aged, crusty old-looking comic cover.

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icon Lettering: Thought Balloons

April 15, 2008

How to create thought balloons in Illustrator.

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icon Lettering: Opentype Ligatures

August 7, 2007

How to enable custom ligatures that automatically substitute any two letters in a row, or disable them if you prefer.

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icon Text and the City: San Francisco

June 1, 2007

San Francisco is just full of cool old metal signage. Here's some we found in and around Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown.

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icon Heroes Comics

May 1, 2007

Fabrice Sapolsky interviews John Roshell about his work on the Heroes website and webcomics for the French magazine Comic Box.

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Secret Invasion

Logo for the Marvel Comics mega-massive-monstrous crossover event

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Astro City: Astra #1 cover design

Cover layout for Astro City: Astra character special, art by Alex Ross.

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Elephantmen & Hip Flask

Site for our comic book titles, chronicling the adventures of human-animal hybrids in the year 2259.

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Astro City: The Dark Age vol.2

Lettering and design for the latest Astro City story arc.

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Circus Posters

Victorian posters and packaging provide inspiration for Generation X #17.

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