Reddit reviews Comic Book Lettering: The Comicraft Way

I'm not a pro, but I have been learning the past months how to letter.

Rather than correct the page, this is how I'd do it in a quick fashion. Probably there's a few mistakes in mine's but it gets the ideas across. (Mostly my balloon tails are very basic but hey, this is a two minute mock-up...)

http://i.imgur.com/rrzamz5.png

Now, my corrections would be: Your text alignment needs to be more rounded in order to make the balloon shapes almost like circles.The balloons also shouldn't cover important art on each panel as much as possible. The text inside every balloon needs space to "breathe".

My recommendations would be:

Illustrator is pretty much the de-facto tool for lettering, so get used to learn it. Try Lynda or online tutorials and learn all the basics & intermediate lessons about Illustrator.

Check out Nate Piekos (Blambot) tips on the most basic lettering mistakes and the "rules" of comic book grammar.

http://chrissamnee.tumblr.com/post/87175204420/mylittledoxy-yopatrick-some-good-tips-about

https://twitter.com/blambot/status/517362038503669760/photo/1

http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml

Check out Scott McCloud's intro tutorials to Lettering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhsqRjBehmw

Also, Jim Campbell has a whole PDF text on the basics of lettering.

http://www.jimcampbell-lettering.co.uk/

And get this book by Comicraft to get more info on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Lettering-The-Comicraft/dp/0974056731

Hope it helps you.

I still think I do. It's going to take me a lot of practicing and critiquing from the kind people here.

I just found these from the Comic Book Collabs subreddit

Lettering

Tutorials

• http://www.balloontales.com/
  
  
• http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml
  
  
• Comic Lettering Tutorial by Chris Oatley
  
  
• http://chrissamnee.tumblr.com/post/87175204420/mylittledoxy-yopatrick-some-good-tips-about
  
  
• https://twitter.com/blambot/status/517362038503669760/photo/1
  
  
• Scott McCloud: Lettering in Illustrator
  http://www.jimcampbell-lettering.co.uk/
  Jim Campbell's Illustrator Lettering Tutorial (PDF)
  
  
• Practice Pages
  http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Lettering-The-Comicraft/dp/0974056731

There is a great book on lettering by Richard Starkings. I ran though some of the examples and it really helps understand the process