You're guilting me into buying so many of your collected works to compensate, and I have no time to read them (Generations 3 awaits, and I didn't even know it existed)!
"the best comment I saw was from someone who said the characters all looked like they were whispering."
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For a long time, many letterers actually did use lower-case to indicate whispering, which made sense when you think about it. But then Jemas went and made that the default setting, and I couldn't get past that.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 17 September 2021 at 10:35am
Dan Green is one of the only non-JB inkers over him that I really enjoy. I'd love to see what he would have done with these past few pages. He had a chaotic line that was perfect for BLOOD OF THE DEMON.
Upper case lettering is also used extensively in drafting for the very reason the upper case is more distinctive than the lower case.
Upper case lettering is also used extensively in drafting for the very reason the upper case is more distinctive than the lower case. Reproduction methods can have a negative effect on the clarity and poor lighting conditions can also cause problems.
UPPER CASE LETTERING IS USED EXTENSIVELY IN DRAFTING.
Maybe it's because I have worked so long in tech, but I have come to really favor inkers who's work looks like INK. I want to see lines widening and tapering, brush strokes, I want a sense of the wetness of the ink, imagine the brush being dipped in the well. The idiosyncrasies that derive from one inker's grasp vs another.
I get a lot of the strides that have been made in modern production, but I think something has been lost there as a result as well.
John Byrne: "...Legibility is the key. With the poor printing of early newspaper comics—the direct ancestors of comic books—the decision was made to letter in all caps to get the most legible read. Also to avoid letters like g, q, p or j descending too deep into the next line...."
I understand that the word "FLICK" was to be avoided, as the capital "L" and "I" could bleed together making another "F" word that's wasn't Code approved.
Many years ago when I was a youth pastor I sent a calendar out with a movie night called "FOOD, FUN, and FLICK" except it didn't look like FLICK. I got a friendly call from an amused elder asking what kind of event was I running. I never made that mistake again.