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SHOW NOTES:
- Richard Starkings on Twitter
- Richard’s comic series, Elephantmen
- Richard’s lettering & design studio, Comicraft (purveyors of unique design and fine lettering)
- Alan Davis’ ORIGINAL cover to Detective Comics #595 and the printed version:
- Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way
- I couldn’t find Todd Klein’s Comic Scene article, but his blog is a great place for talk of lettering, fonts, logos, and more.
- WhizBang vs. Comicraft’s WildWords
- “Thoughts about Thought Balloons”, a discussion from the Balloon Tales Forum
- The Ren & Stimpy Font vs. Comicraft’s Zoinks
- An example of balloon placements, these for X-BABIES #2 (click for larger image):
- The scene Richard mentions from BLAZING SADDLES (scene DOES contain racially sensitive/charged language):
- Anthony Robbins
- Before Hip Flask and Elephantmen, there was Hedge Backwards (for more Hedge Backwards strips, check out Richard’s Deviant Art page):
- The World Tribune, the Buddist Newspaper from SGI (Soka Gakkai International)
- Richard’s favorite solo Beatle recording, “Photograph” by Ringo Star (AKA Richard Starkey):
- “(theme for) Stuff Said” by Craig Chin (also on Soundcloud)
- Additional Music: “She is Staggering” by Polaris, “Love Me Do” by The Beatles, “Karma Police” by Radiohead