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Someone in a private forum I belong to mentioned fountain pens and thus I became acquainted with the role of a nibmeister, a person who can remake the nib of your pen more to your liking (different angle, better flow, etc).
Skip Kohloff's comics work
Early this year, Heritage Auctions' weekly comics news newsletter included a brief article titled "The Mysterious Letterer of Hero for Hire #1", referring to a credit in that issue for someone named Skip Kohloff.
The article mentioned that there were no other Marvel comics credits for Kohloff, and that it seemed he wasn't remembered by people who worked there at the time.
Quoting from the newsletter:
Having a decent comic Rolodex here at Heritage, we reached out to one of the Marvel Bullpen's leading lights of that era to find out more, but alas, said gent had no recollection of Mr. Kohloff. We also asked an ace letterer of our acquaintance (who was not on staff at Marvel) who also did not know this name but offered that he may have been a friend of the inker, or a letterer of comic strips who was given this job as a tryout.
I reached to Roy Thomas in case he had more info: he didn't remember Kohloff but speculated that he "probably knew someone in the Bullpen".
Trying to find out more about him, my first lead was a mention in the Grand Comics Database thanks to Dark Horse's crediting Kohloff as a letterer in their reprint of Burne Hogarth's 1976 graphic novel, Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
The source of this credit in the original 1976 printing of this book (published by Watson-Guptill Publications) is Burne Hogarth mentioning Kohloff in the "Acknowledgments" section of the book: "and finally Skip Kohloff, for his esprit and unstinting efforts in producing the carefully hand-lettered texts of Tarzan books, I and II".
(Hogarth's reference to "Books I and II" in this context refers to the first two chapters of Hogarth's comic adaptation: the book is divided in four sections, labeled Books I to IV.)
Even though the lettering closely follows Hogarth's own style, you can still see a resemblance with the lettering in Hero for Hire #1, done only a few years before.
My search for further information about Kohloff led me to several references and an obituary for a teacher and photographer named R. Skip Kohloff. Was this the same person as the letterer of the previous works? This person had studied at the at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York (which at least placed him in the general area of Marvel's and Watson-Guptill Publications's offices) and arrived with his wife "in Denver from Rochester, NY in 1977".
An archive of R. Skip Kohloff's papers at the University of Iowa confirmed that this was the same person who had done lettering work for Marvel and Burne Hogarth. The archive is understandably mostly devoted to the photographic work he did over three decades, but it also includes a section labeled "Comics" that contains a copy of Hero for Hire #1, "lettered by R. Skip Kohloff".
I was intrigued by the mention of "Big Ben Bolt" strips from 1975 in Kohloff's belongings. The listing doesn't detail which strips are included in the archive, but I found scans of strips from that year (unsigned, but apparently ghosted by John Celardo) which seem to have been lettered by Skip Kohloff: the style is quite similar to the "Hero for Hire" lettering.
Rupert Jenkins's obituary for Kohloff mentions that he lived in Colorado for the rest of his life, dying in 2020. It seems safe to assume that he did no comics work after leaving New York in 1977, but it's still possible that he may have done other lettering for newspaper comic strips before that year.
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center has a tribute to him and his work, and some of his photographic work can also be seen here: https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/cpac/artist/r-skip-kohloff
A nice series of tweets of cartoonists responding to a Sandra Hope video, including Paul Chadwick and the great Hilary Barta. (X)
More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.
I'm posting this for writing students, comics students--see also some helpful discussion of "show, don't tell" in the comments
Another great one, Lincoln. Is there also an element to this style of writing though that could be traced back to the mind-f*** of a trap in

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From the fertile mind of Peter Blegvad.
pre-order Fielder 4 here. Out in February
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
This is the official are.na group for CARI. Check out our work at https://cari.institute/
Links
Dylan Williams interviews Chris Ware (1994)
This interview was conducted by Dylan Williams, on the phone between Berkeley, California and Chicago, Illinois, about a month after the Feb
Lynda Barry on Tech
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.
Brian Eno on Axis Thinking
Saul Steinberg
List of Chicago Comics Conventions for 2025 https://comic-cons.xyz/us/illinois/chicago/
Alessandro Sanna, The River, 2014.

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La classe sans maitre
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Jill McDonald, c. mid-1970s
via The Belbury Parish Magazine
Underground Cartooning Course, by Justin Green (1972).
Woke up at 2am and couldnāt fall back asleep so I made a tutorial on the Photoshop techniques I use most frequently. Starting with the sketch:
adjustment layers: specifically the hue/saturation slider in this case, allows you to color correct quickly
lasso tool: for sharp edges!
alpha lock: useful for painting within a pre-defined area (especially useful when painting characters)
xĀ (hotkey) : toggle between foreground + background colors- letās you easily blend between 2 colors
ctrl/cmd click : quickly change current active layer. Especially useful if youāre burdened with too many layers (or just very disorganized)
clipping mask: similar to alpha lock, but can add details without changing/ painting directly on the previous layer.Ā I often use them to test out + apply gradients.
layer styles: I didnāt use any in this image, but the possibilities for layer styles endless, from simply adding a quick outline (useful for die cut demarcations when making stickers!) to creating more seemingly complex appearances. Hereās a gif of Nick Carver using layer styles (a combo of drop shadows + inner shadows) to quickly make the illusion of snow but with simple strokes.
Hereās the link to the full snow clip! ending on this:
Hereās another page on the arm. This time, a few examples on how the volumes move in space. In order to create a believable foreshortening, first think of simple overlapping volumes. The more you grow as an artist, the more youāll add in subtleties, but always remember to keep the overall shape of the arm, especially in foreshortening, simple and in direct relation to the story youāre telling. Is your character healthy, direct, commanding, or is he/she shy, hurt, lazy, etc. The feeling you convey will always trump the exactitude of your characterās anatomy. -Norm @grizandnorm #100tuesdaytipsbook #arttutorial #arttips #grizandnorm #tuesdaytips #100tuesdaytips #armforeshortening

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New magazine of college-level comics class notes, lessons, and miscellaneous meta-commentary. 20 pages, full color. 8.5x11.
This is lovely advice.