Nate Piekos of Blambot

20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nom. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Do you have the most comprehensive guide to modern comic lettering ever written? It's just $13.34 on Amazon, and it's still got 4.8 stars! 256 pages, full color! Written by Nate Piekos, Introduction by Tom Orzechowski, and published by Image!

AMAZON: https://t.co/iRseHp7LvX

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Throw up the horns. Here's your rock for the day. Plush covering Heart's Barracuda. https://t.co/c8qpDINlOe

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day. I'm working on an unusual font project. I designed a font years ago that I like, but I find it's not legible enough to be useful. So I'm designing a new font based on that font. Debating whether to come up with a completely new name, or a new variation of the old name

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day. Rough night, and I'm in the stusio a little bit late. I'm in the middle of producing final files for D'ORC #6. Listening to Coltrane in the studio.

[Daniel (Danny) K. @RPG_GM02]

@blambot showing how to do a proper caption box [yes, I've used this in my games for DM notes]

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Hey, @Fender! Make Baltic Blue a standard offering for the American lineup. Best blue I’ve ever seen on a guitar!

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

@lord_z19 No, I wasn’t. Spent most of my time either in the art department, the old Coffee Ground, or the 2nd floor of the library.

[Daniel (Danny) K. @RPG_GM02]

#ttrpg #Western @blambot also has this available if you're doing Western Hero, Boot Hill, or Tall Tales B/X

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Hmmmm… think there’s some correlation here…

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Taking Elwood—my gold top, ‘07 Gibson Les Paul Classic with Fralin humbuckers—for a spin today with one of the best amps on the planet, the EVH 5150III. Enough gain to peel your face off. \m/ \m/

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Ace in your face Friday

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day and happy Friday. So far today, I have delivered proofs for American Caper #11, and lettered a Marvel cover for Skottie. Switching gears for a bit to work on a font. Listening to Ozzy Live at Budokan in the studio.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

@juaneferreyra Brown and yellow Wolverine is the best Wolverine.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

DH employees have successfully unionized! Other publishers take note.

[Dark Horse Comics @DarkHorseComics]

A statement regarding @DarkHorseUnion: https://t.co/gWB7vT8ryj

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

@JBONAMASSA I picked up a Tone Master ‘59 Bassman, and darn it if I didn’t fall in love with it.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

@GarrAarghHrumph Less than a month. But I elected to do this. I wasn't asked.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day. Been super busy this week. Several lettering projects coming due at once, plus two secret projects, including one that requires me to speed-design a new font before I can begin. So yeah. A lot going on right now.

[Pipeline Comics (Augie De Blieck Jr.) 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 @pipelinecomics]

A quick, possibly pedantic, reminder:

"Word balloon" is correct. "Word bubble" is not.

Thanks for attending my TED talk....

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day. Just turned in proofs of an issue of MINOR THREATS. Now I'm lettering a different MINOR THREATS series. Later: Working on a font for a secret project that probably won't be released until 2027. Listening to Spin Doctors in the studio.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

Lovely day. First SFX of the day is a punch in the face.

[Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot]

New guitar pedal day! The new EVH/MXR Modern High Gain distortion pedal. It replicates the red channel on the EVH 5150 amp, w/ built-in noise gate! While I am the furthest thing from Eddie Van Halen, his company continues to put out supremely usable products for any guitarist.