BLAM - Comic Book Lettering School - Fonts, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks

	BLAM - Lettering Resources Links to sites with Comics and Cartoon Lettering fonts. Previews, Mac, PC, International characters, accented letters, Freeware, Shareware & Commercial fonts listed.
	Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way by Richard Starkings and John Roshell is a book you must read if you are interested in Comic Book Lettering.
	How Nate Letters a Comic Read about Nate Piekos' lettering. Check out Blambot's Comics 101-section.
	Hand lettering tutorial in The Blambot Nexus
	Comicraft - Balloontales Great tips and tricks. Articles by Richard Starkings and John Roshell.
	The underappreciated art of lettering by Augie De Blieck Jr., CBR, Dec.1999.
	Check out the Lettering Archive in the Digital Webbing Forums
	Fans lettering tutorial - check out the 10 greatest letterers and the 10 suckiest comic book letterings.
	Figma Patrick Simmons shows us how to letter comics on the computer using Adobe Illustrator.
	Fontlinks Check these links for display and special effect fonts.
	Computer Lettering for Comic Books Read Sean Glumace's article from the Friends of Lulu in LA website.
	Political Strikes »Lettering Comics is the BEST job! I set my own hours- I "play" on the computer for a living...« says Kevin Cunningham, letterer for Claypool Comics.
	Sequential Tart Pioneer of Computer Lettering - Richard Starkings - interview by Laura DePuy, Oct.1999.
	Tales from the Crypt How the lettering was done for the old EC Comics »Tales from the Crypt« comic books.
	The Makeshift Miracle - Making Word Balloons in Photoshop Tutorial by Jim Zubkavich
	Affordable Comic Lettering Fonts John MacLeod's lettering tips »Fonts on a Small Press budget« at the Small Press FAQ-page.
	†TAFKA http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~jmaranto Computer Lettering : How I Do It - lettering tutorial by Jason Maranto.
	Grizmart new url - Dale Martin's gallery with a hand lettering tutorial.
	Textning - about comic book lettering (in Swedish).
	TIRED OF TYPING? I use technical pens such as Rotring Rapidograph and Rapidoliner, Staedtler Marsmagno, Grumbacher Artist Penand a lot of different dip pens for handlettering comics.

	Mac-tips for letterers
	StuffIt Deluxe- The complete compression solution for Macintosh. Stuffit Expander - FREE. The easiest way to open downloads and attachments.
	Zipit SHAREWARE - unzips Windows ".zip-files" in your Mac.
	TT Converter SHAREWARE - Converts Windows TrueType fonts to Macintosh fonts. Download from the University of Michigan.
	Fontec Character Chooser - FREE - The Fontek Character Chooser is a utility for the Macintosh that provides easy access to a font's entire character set. Simply launch Character Chooser, select a font, find the desired character in the scrolling window, and copy it to the Clipboard. You can then paste the character into a document created with virtually any application. [Download at ITC or Letraset]
	LaserWriter Utility - FREE - The LaserWriter Font Utility for the Macintosh can be used to restart a printer, prepare a list of available printer fonts, see a printed sample of the available fonts, initialize a hard disk attached to a printer, and send a PostScript file to the printer. You can also use the LaserWriter Font Utility to download Type 1 and TrueType fonts to a printer. [Download at ITC]


	Windows program WinZip unzips PC ".zip-files".

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