Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who letters; one who marks or cuts the letters of an inscription, a title, or the like: as, a book-letterer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)
- noun A particular profession in the production of
comics , an artist specializing in neatly writing written material such as dialogue. - noun A device for printing letters of text.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a painter of letters
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Examples
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The letters are a joy to see on the page, and his style fits in well with the series 'original and long term letterer, Chris Eliopoulos, and one-time replacement John Workman.
Comic Book Resources 2009
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Turns out, this really was a "lost Conan adventure", one that he did a long time ago when he worked as a letterer on Finnish Conan comics ... he's done a bunch more like this, but they were all misplaced, and when this one turned up a few months ago, he posted it on the web!
Conan and the Penguin People! Cromsblood 2009
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As letterer Todd Klein explained on his blog: "Neil and the DC staffers involved felt the lettering on these issues reproduced so badly when enlarged it was worth having me redo it."
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Through Laura Koenig's Bib-Laura-graphy (easier to say than it looks), I found letterer Nate Peikos's helpful “Comics Grammar & Tradition” article at Blambot.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The original Smith and Tinker were, of course, the inventors of Tik-Tok, the clockwork man in Ozma of Oz. And master comics letterer Todd Klein, whom I've quoted about the Robin logo, reviews the latest issue of The Baum Bugle.
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And the 1955 logo comes full circle: It was a DC artist/letterer -- Ira Schapp, father of the classic "Action Comics" logo -- who reportedly also designed the CCA seal.
QUICK POST: Only 56 years later, the CCA seal of censorship is dead Michael Cavna 2011
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Rosen, Joe (December 25, 1920 – October 12, 2009) Comic-book letterer The Comics Reporter obit; Todd Klein tribute
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Neither fellow is quite a letterer yet, so I'll transcribe the words as well.
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But you're not done yet: there's one more person you need to produce your graphic novel: a letterer.
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Those companies 'comic books are usually produced by a team: scripter, penciller, inker, letterer, colorist, and sometimes others.
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