Well then… here it is, retooled, reimagined and reStarkingsed…ah, what the hell, we started from scratch! This ain’t no Greedo Shoots First - you won’t have to keep your pasty ’70s VHS recordings of previous Richard Starkings Fonts inside a concrete bunker. Well, yes, the Hedge Backwards font is all fine and dandy and does resemble the lettering legerdemain of comic book lettering robot, Richard Starkings… but has it been tweaked over the years to better suit the writing stylings of ELEPHANTMEN creator and writer, Richard Starkings? Has it been refurbished and digitally remastered by ELEPHANTMEN designer and Comicraft Secret Weapon, John JG Roshell? Hmm? No?
Comicraft’s publishing arm, Active Images, released Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way by Starkings and Roshell in 2003 – which pushed Starkings into his current “publishing critically acclaimed graphic novels” phase.Īctive Images’ growing line includes Strange Embrace, Solstice and Starkings’ own pulp science fiction creation, Hip Flask.A NEW HOPE! You begged with us.! You pleaded with us.! But we decided to release the official Richard Starkings font anyway! Huh? WHAT? You heard that line before? Where? Hmm… on this very site.? Starkings hired UCLA graduate John Roshell in 1992 and together they established the award-winning Comicraft studio and foundry. This book is a great introduction to the methods necessary to creating good digital lettering for comics. Moving to Los Angeles in 1989, Starkings pursued a freelance career and famously pioneered digital comic book lettering in order to meet tight deadlines, known now as his infamous “sixteen X-Men books a month” phase. Comic Book Lettering: The Comicraft Way by Richard Starkings & John Roshell Comicraft, the producers of this book, handle a great deal of lettering jobs for Marvel, DC, and other publishers. In his twenties, Starkings was hired by Marvel Comics in London and entered his “drawing logos for chocolate” phase which led to editorial responsibilities for Doctor Who, Transformers and The Real Ghostbusters. In his teens he created four panel comic strips for Doctor Who fanzines and developed his pen lettering skills on comic strips for indy publisher Harrier, thus beginning his “ink-stained & calloused middle finger” phase. Richard Starkings has worked in comics since he was ten, which began what he refers to as his “helping my brother at comic marts in exchange for advance copies of Conan the Barbarian” phase.
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