Jim Campbell's Comic Book Lettering Blog

Comics, Lettering and Other Stuff from the damaged brain of Jim Campbell

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Happy Birthday, 2000AD!

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This month, Britain's beloved SF weekly anthology celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary, the last, defiant survivor of a market that d...
Sunday, 19 February 2012

Interleaved Balloons

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One of the key skills of being a letterer is the ability to cram unfeasibly large amounts of copy into spaces that clearly were never intend...
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Thursday, 2 February 2012

Please, sir, can I have some Mo(o)re?

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(This blog post shamelessly repurposed from some musings yesterday on Facebook.) Honestly, I don't see the fuss over DC's Watchme...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

Shameless ballot-stuffing!

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This year's Eagle Award nominations close very soon. I may make the shortlist if you vote for me as 'Favourite Letterer" -- fol...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Strip Magazine: Restoring Hook Jaw!

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For this post, I thought I'd take a quick look at one of the more involved lettering jobs I've been working on, the 'restoration...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

SOPA: off-topic, but too important to let pass…

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The SOPA Bill fundamentally misunderstands how the internet works, panders to the interests of big business, is built on a systematic campai...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Forgotten Wisdom, Part Two: Bleeding What Now?

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As part of my renewed determination to keep a regular update schedule, let's kick off with the much-delayed Part Two of my irregular ser...
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Jim Campbell is a twice-Eisner-nominated comic-book letterer, one-time writer (perhaps again in the future!) and occasional artist (although his enthusiasm rather outstrips his actual ability). He knows more about print production than mortal man was meant to know and has also scanned more images than you've had hot dinners. Unless you're ninety years old.
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