Great work, as always. Question: Did you get a backup generator just in case, or did you find out you needed one...the Hard Way?

Always love how you walk us through your process, Nate. And as an aside, that pre-press guy you mentioned in the intro sounds like he really knows his stuff! 😜

Illustrator actually has a Links panel where you can relink the image without the need to unlock and lock back the Art layer. I use it and is much faster even when I create the files at the beginning, so it just replaces the previous page without the need of centring the art again.

Fascinating! After 15 years I still have a lot to learn 🖤🖤

Thanks, master! I follow your works and fonts many years. hello from 🇦🇲

Enjoyed you walking us though your thought process as much as the final answer.

So simple and yet so useful. Thanks for sharing!

what did you do though? like how did the random black line just transform?

What are the steps?

That looks soooo much easier than the way I’ve been doing it. ☹️

I've been using a similar action, especially for connecting balloons, for quite a while now, this saves me so much time!

Kinda reminds me of the rolling ruler which I still have from the early 90s and it still works!

Thank You! Very Informative.

Really liked Issue #1. Looking forward to reading the next one. I’m curious about the Black Box Prison intro panel (page 5-ish). Was the zigzag before “Are you about to bestow me with that which I requested?” Intended to indicate the conversation is being recorded or being monitored by someone? I’m guessing it would be Scalpel or possibly The Action. I’m not noticing anything that indicates that though.

Awesome, thanks. What I learned this episode: All my sound FX are TOO SMALL. :D

Out of curiousity, why not use the Touch Type Tool to move the individual letters? It almost looks like you simply Create Outlines and then moved each individual letter. Is this just a preference?

Nate is it ok to do this on Photoshop? I also would like to know about this pack of ballons and tails. That make things faster. Is it a pack we can download?

always learn lots from you!

Your work always inspires me

Sound effects are the bane of my existence. I love them in comics, but as a Letterer, they cause me no end of grief. Trying to always come up with interesting fonts or unique ways of showing the effects. Ugh. Stresses me out every time.

Hi Blambot! I am an indie comic book writer from Macedonia! I want to get into lettering so I can do the lettering for my comics. I’ve learnt alot from you (THANKS!), but there is this one thing I just can’t get right, which is the bubbles to look good. I see that you already have a huge preset for them, do you sell/give that out, or maybe you have a lesson on how to make them look like that?

The splatter at the end was a nice surprise!

I'd love to learn more about font making, this seems to interesting.

This was actually very helpful. I've been trying to create my own font, but keep stopping because I'm so lost.

I no longer print them out, but I did set my computer up on the short side of my office so I can stand across the room and look at the monitor where I can put various sizes of the black and white logo on my monitor. Great tips as usual Nate.

Man, videos like this demonstrating your thoughtful and deliberate processes show why you're the best in the biz.

I can't wait to read this book it has all my favorite folks on it! Nate, thanks so much for doing these.

A million more logo process videos like this, please and thank you, Nate. Loved your first take, btw. Both are great, though.

I've had one of these Ames Guides for years. Never got around to finding out how to use it! Now I know. Thank you.

I was wondering where did you get your shirt? I’m a big fan of the movie. The shining. I saw it every day for a year.lol.

Promo`SM ✋

This is next-level awesome! I'd love to see your process of scanning and processing/cleaning up textures.

This guys mic picks up every mouth slap and swallow. As an autistic it’s making the videos impossible to get through. Which is really frustrating cos I know this is one of the best places to learn lettering. But the mouth sounds make me want to peel off my skin.

Wow!

I always miss a few of these myself and it's something editors always call you out for. I grabbed one of these "auto" fonts from Blambot a while back and makes a HUGE difference to my work. Not making such obvious mistakes with handlebars makes your lettering look way less amateurish to publishers.

Any literature on why this started? Save space?

Dream combo!

Hi. Cartoonist Stan Sakai sets his Ames lettering Guide at 3.25. How would you do that? I can’t figure it out.

I love this series, your videos are so informative and interesting! (Big love to Ace too!)

Yeah, that price tag is just begging for you to try and scrape it off in one piece without leaving behind adhesive or marring the back cover.

This is so cool, Nate. Blends absolutely flawlessly with Mike's cover. Love that barcode spot as well.

Thank you for the video, that cover will be a hell for the localization in any other language

Love this, Nate. Your efficiency is so inspiring- not a wasted beat, but also so much creativity within the rails you've designed for yourself.

After you finish at illustrator, how did u close the file? SFX you use photoshop?

I'm a huge fan!! Nate, what is your page rate $$?

Very cool!

New Blambot video!

Great lesson. Thanks

Anyone have any good books or written guides on this?

Makes me think about in comics it’s traditional to have the barred capital I only for personal pronouns