Text and Lettering

I think that so long as it's neat, there's nothing wrong with hand lettering. My personal preference just happens to be the computer comic typefaces because my handwriting is admittedly lacking in the neatness department.

There is no stigma either way. In fact, as far as I know, the only stigma is that some people don't like seeing MS Comic Sans...

FR

FinbarReilly said:

There is no stigma either way. In fact, as far as I know, the only stigma is that some people don't like seeing MS Comic Sans...

FR

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Which is why I use Anime Ace. Much less childish, imo.

There are also a few good lettering fonts out there free from places like Blambot.

jt

You can find them here as well.

When we started our comic book the first issue we did the caption boxes and dialogue boxes by hand and the dialogue via Quark Express. This had the one down size of not being able to re-size the boxes with ease.

By our fourth issue we had learned a few things and had bought caption boxes/dialogue boxes icons via Comic Craft. We put the dialogue and boxes all in via Photoshop.

I'd recommend tracking down a nice dialogue box/comic text via Comic Craft and forget about doing any of it by hand.

Little known fact--the first comics publisher to create and routinely use a comic book-style computer lettering font was Millennium Publications, back in 1990...starting with the first issue of Anne Rice's The Mummy or Ramses The Damned. The practice was greatly frowned on.

Mainly by letterers.

Go figger.