The Adobe Fonts Show: Create Authentic Comic Book Pages with John Roshell

Comic book characters are everywhere these days but before they were on the big screen, they were surrounded by hand lettering, speech bubbles, and “wham, “klang” sound effects. If you’re a fan of comics, chances are you’ve seen the work of this week’s guest, John Roshell. He has lettered thousands of comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse & Blizzard, designed the logos for Avengers, Daredevil, Black Panther & Angry Birds, and created hundreds of typefaces for Comicraft, an Adobe Fonts foundry partner.

In this episode, John will show us:
– How to create speech bubbles and sound effects in illustrator.
– How to layout lettering on a comic page.
– How to create a Title with impact.
– How to add textures and halftones in Photoshop for that real comics look.

Check out some of his excellent fonts with your Creative Cloud subscription: https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/comicraft
Find even more amazing comic fonts at: https://www.comicbookfonts.com
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Ben Welch is a Content Producer based in New York.

Ariadne Remoundakis is a lettering artist and Library Manager of Adobe Fonts based in San Francisco: https://www.behance.net/ariadnerem
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