Letters & Lines

Season two of Letters & Lines continues with a discussion around the role of dialogue, backgrounds (and a lot in-between) within comics.

We continue season two of Letters & Lines, this time with our lettering guest Ariana Maher. We chat about integrating Photoshop into our workflows, and what we want from writers.

We continue season two of Letters & Lines by discussing what makes a good (and bad)issue opening, and what is the use and relevance of structuring comics in grids.

We continue season two of Letters & Lines by discussing what makes a good comic book font, and if the pamphlet format of monthly comics is holding it back.

We kick off the second season of Letters and Lines with a live episode, recorded on YouTube with an audience throwing questions and comments at us. We discuss opening the industry up for new creators, and why formal analysis of comics is important for our lettering work.

Episode ten of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the future of comics, and making them professionally vs. as a hobby.

Episode nine of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss comic book cover designs, and the nature of comics criticism.

This time Aditya and Hassan begin with some listener questions, before diving into their two topics. Hass talks about the nature of pitching in comics, and the invisible work everyone does to get work made. Aditya wants to talk retirement plans for letterers in comics. The eighth episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast.

This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the idea of productivity, especially working in comics, and looking after yourself, as well as the idea of creating works for a monthly market versus ebooks to last in the consciousness longer. The seventh episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast.

This time Aditya and Hassan catch up with what they've been reading recently, and why they've been enjoying it, as a way to break the ice from missing podcasting for so long...! The sixth episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast.

The fifth episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss using poetic and lyrical dialogue in comics, it's relation to theatre vs film/tv, and structuring first issues. They're joined by Maxwell's demons and PanelxPanel writer Deniz Camp.

The fourth episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the idea of reverse-engineering storytelling and effects within storytelling, and for their second subject tackle what makes crossovers so interesting to each of them, through the lens of Infinity War and others.

The third episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the if an artist is able to change their style as the progress, and what means for their storytelling, and also looking at the various styles of Alex Toth's lettering. Alex Toth pages: https://imgur.com/a/WfDm5e9 Jim Campbell's Lettering Guide: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2aragi0fu12c1vu/Lettering_Guide_Jim_Campbell.pdf?dl=0

The second episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the various roles of a comic artist, both from the creative and artistic to the technical. Aditya's topic is around the voice of a letterer within the comic, and how he sees that within his own work.

The first episode of Letters & Lines, Aditya Bidikar and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's comics focused podcast. This time Aditya and Hassan discuss the art of lettering, from beginning to end of working on a comic, and also the different between realistic rendering in comics art vs graphic representation.