One of the key, unique elements of the comic medium is its ability to use space to create time — check out this brilliant flip-book-style il...

A belated Happy New Year to one and all… I did slightly better about putting some content on this blog in 2015, despite lettering 6,454 p...

Text Boxes I've had cause recently to work on Illustrator pages that have originally been lettered by other people and was surprised ...

(That font is Blambot's ProtestPaint BB, if you're interested…) I'm not really a militant on the subject of crediting letter...

Or, more accurately, my back-up. I've been startled over the course of this year so far to see the number of fellow creative professio...

A lot of people seem to struggle with the difference between the Selection tool and the Direct Selection tool (the black arrow and the white...

Illustrator is a strange piece of software, full of not-very-obvious features and counter-intuitive processes. I've met people who'v...