| Posted: 04 December 2007 at 4:58am | IP Logged | 9
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Why don't they put the letters on the page anymore?
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The theory is it makes it easier to do foreign editions. The translators can
create balloons of sizes appropriate to the language, instead of trying to
squeeze the new copy (think of German, which has about 17 words to
every 1 in English) into pre-existing balloon shapes.
Mind you, it's not really as if a huge amount of money is made of foreign
editions. It's a bit tail-wags-dog.
(It's also humbug. When I did TRUE BRIT I was told it was officially the
last book DC would produce with lettering on the pages. What they
actually meant was officially the last book DC would produce with
lettering on the pages unless someone they consider to have clout throws
a hissy fit and insists on real lettering on his project.)
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Well, as a former letterer for some publishing companies in France, I have to say that this kinda makes sense. It was difficult for me to fill-in all those words to be as accurate as possible to the original text on Tarzan ( a collector of very old Sunday strips ), a little bit more easy on Flash Gordon ( This is where I started to know more on the characters, letterering stories from circa 1942-44 ), but it was a pain in the a** for a Superman-Batman I did partially. As a matter of fact, I want this part of my memory to be destroyed. I am not happy at all with the results. I did my best to have the spacing around the words OK as much as possible, and it was almost Mission Impossible. But when I saw the result made by the careless printer... Argh !
Anyway...
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