sara linsley

Introducing my newest comic book font, Trinketry! It's mixed-case, hand-drawn, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's a cutie with high charisma, and would be perfect in any comic. You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b7e9497fed

In a lot of cases I would use fonts for text like this, but I decided to handwrite these because honestly, it's just easier to make it fit and flow with the art. There's very little wiggle room. (I actually had to do it twice, this was mixed case originally sob)

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All volume 4 is out! Here's some fun bits of lettering I did for the English version. *the difference in green in these screenshots between the JP/EN versions is down to I assume export settings for different platforms

I’m doing a talk at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration! Please come by if you’re interested in my work and London based!

This is why I encourage other comics people to really look at the deadline they've been assigned and if it's even feasible. And not "it will kill me, but I can do it" feasible, either. Sometimes deadlines are arbitrary and can be adjusted! Especially early in the process! Ask for what you need!

Howdy folks It's my birthday on the 31st and as much as I hate to rattle the can, money is uh Rough right now and I am gonna need some help to cover bills after a bunch of surprise costs dropkicked me in the throat Here's my ko-fi and a selfie to DRAW THE EYE ko-fi.com/blankzoe

so cool knowing my font Bean Burrito is installed on millions of phones!!

before i disappear from bsky again, here's a logo i designed for a discord server i think looks nice

Working on my handwriting font. Got samples of all of the letters and vast majority of the symbols prepped, ready to begin tracing. I scanned them at 600dpi, so each square of graph paper is 150px. Slight fuzziness when loaded into Fontlab, but that should be fine since I'm tracing manually.

Hello every non-techie webcomics person who gets scared to even touch their website. PLEASE contact your host and make sure they're ready to patch this.

knockoff software is making headlines, so i would like to remind everyone not to download software from publishers you don’t trust. even if it’s going viral. especially if it’s going viral.

Brandon points out one of the most vital skills for a manga letterer. Retouching art is something to approach in steps. Fully white out the JP text and isolate that area. Get the broad strokes like boundaries out of the way before doing any detail work.

And lastly, here's every unique "Let it Rip!" in the book.

—and things like the signs people are holding up. In blue you can see all the spots where I filled things in. The illusion holds up pretty well, but I tried to pay attention to things like rotation/angle of the crowd in different parts of the arena.

Here's a look at how I handle some of these big sweeping crowd shots. If you look at the English SFX laid over the art before I retouch it, you see a lot of gaps where I need to fill in the crowds. Clone tool makes quick work of these, but it's important to establish the borders (highlighted red)—

belated but two years of rose-tinted! thank you to everybody who's supported the project!

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update on this whimsical type project!

Look I don’t think voting alone fixes everything. No one action will. But it‘s one of many tools and I think we‘re doing ourselves a disservice not to use *every* tool available. Please make a plan to vote early or vote Nov 3rd and take a few minutes to read up on your local races and issues.

Fantastic bit here. Brendon said he considered using a handwriting-style font for this page until he saw this line. The hand-written text does get replicated across panels, but as exact copies that get transformed, not re-written.

Dark Horse as a manga publisher doesn't have hard rules about subtitling vs. replacing signage, so there's a mix of methods. I appreciate the stylization for the subtitles on items that would be prohibitively difficult to replace. It's a dense manga, and Brendon told me it was arduous to work on.

We’re excited to announce the nominations for the BODEGA CAT (Comic Arts Trophy) Awards! Check out the nominees on the ballot, which is open to the public. Voting is open NOW and will close on Saturday November 14 (Day 1 of BEC) at 4pm ET: www.brooklynexpoofcomics.com/bodega-cat-a...

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken volume 8 is out in English now, and my friend Brendon @lettererbrendo.bsky.social lettered it. Oowara-sensei has a cool style that utilizes lots of digital assets, but is still full of lines and text drawn by hand. Here are some panel comparisons that stood out to me.

you can now read 49 chapters (8 vols) of Firefly Wedding with a VIZ Manga subscription ✨ www.viz.com/vizmanga/cha... lettering: @matchafinn.bsky.social translation: Andria McKnight

RSVP here! It's TONIGHT, y'all! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Tezuka might be the most important comics artist of the whole 20th Century. Great to see this in the works!

activating like a sleeper agent every time someone complains about people "faking it" for ADA in my presence

unfortunately missing nycc day 4 to... *checks notes* make comics

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

“[…] when some HarperCollins employees expressed concerns about the legal, ethical, and environmental impacts of AI at one of these brainstorming sessions, a person leading the meeting dismissed their qualms as ‘the cost of doing business,’ […]” Then your company has failed 😬

Go get your books signed by @zoewithasword.bsky.social !!

Today!! Come hang out and get your books signed at 1 PM at the Lifeline Booth (Booth #4355)!!!!

Day one of @newyorkcomiccon is complete and it’s now Friday!! Come visit me at table G25 for new merch and good vibes. Also, I’ll be moderating the Junji Ito Strange screening and panel today at 5:45pm at North room 409 See you there! ARE YOU COMING THRU?!

Me, with @sarahwebb.bsky.social and @sara.pizza adapted the first arc of @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, @aabria.bsky.social, @erikaishii.bsky.social & @louwilson.bsky.social's actual play rpg podcast @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social, THE WIZARD, THE WITCH, & THE WILD ONE.

📢📢📢 "ROMANCE IS THE #1 GENRE" 📢📢📢

CRAWLERS at #NYCC! Make sure to head to @thevaultcomics.bsky.social at Booth #4351 and pick up your exclusive first look in print at the upcoming DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL CROCODILE graphic novel, by @mattdinniman.bsky.social, @michaelmoreci.bsky.social, @brettbean.bsky.social, Andworld Design and me!

Blambot Sound FX Brushes Vol. 2 is now available! 62 individual Adobe Illustrator brushes are included with Astro Disastro BB, BasicBlox BB, and Chunko Brush BB! blambot.com/products/bla...

Going to make and release a new font by the end of 2026. Putting this out there so I have some solid motivation. Not gonna be a font specific to comics, just my default rough handwriting. It's messy. But I've learned a ton since my prior font, and need to kick into gear to implement all that.

New Yorkers: one month from today, there will be five questions on the back of your ballot. Register to vote by October 24 and learn more at nyc.gov/fast

The survey closes October 31st aka Halloween!! 👻 It would be ~extra spooky~ of comic workers if you contributed to radical financial transparency to help us improve working conditions in the comics industry! 👻 If you filled this out last year, do it again! Up-to-date info crucial for this project!