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Jim Campbell — Socially Distant Since 2009 Profile picture
@CampbellLetters
Jun 15, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#Firefly has a special place in my heart—my favourite SF thing in the last 20 years, and I’m incredibly grateful that @boomstudios let me work on these books. @danmcdaid & the other amazing artists have breathed life into @gregpak’s brilliant scripts, and I’m having SO much fun.
I mean, SERIOUSLY, I’m a fan who got to work on these books. So many of these spin-off/licenses titles just don’t *feel* right, but @boomstudios’s Firefly stuff really does. Buy these books or by my pretty not-floral bonnet, I *will* end yiu.
Trust me — no one who looks like this would steer you wrong on the subject of SF westerns…

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Sep 22, 2020
So…I deleted my Watchmen tweets because someone decided to jump in on the end of the thread & start tagging in just about everyone who's ever worked for DC. I thought deleting the 1st tweet would nuke the thread…but, no, so I had to delete a bunch of now-contextless replies. 1/
To be clear, though, I stand by everything I said in those original tweets. To wit: 2/
[Watchmen tweets redux!] Moore & Gibbons signed a contract in the confident expectation that they would, at some point in the future, regain the rights to their work. I haven't read the contract; I am not a contract lawyer, but… 3/
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Sep 19, 2020
There are very few hard 'rules' for comic lettering, not least because you're always playing a hand the artist and writer have dealt you, but there's an awful lot of *preference*. For example, I've found myself leaning away from using connectors to link balloons… Image
Hard Rule #1, if anyone's interested: READING ORDER. I don't care how much art I have to cover up, I will *not* leave a panel or a page with unclear reading order. My job is to serve the story, not work around poor planning by the artist.
Hard Rule #2: NEVER CROSS TAILS. I can conceive of situations where the story might make it logical (maybe with characters talking across each other?) but in 60,000+ pages lettered, I've *never* done it.
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Aug 26, 2020
Listen up, young freelancers! Gather round my camp fire and harken to a cautionary tale…
…I spent 15yrs being a graphic designer, and the last 12 being a letterer. And I spent the bulk of those years sitting in the cheapest, shittiest office chairs giving not the slightest thought to posture or ergonomics…
…As a result, I have a stoop that’s one step from getting me a bell ringer’s job at Norte Dame and can now turn my head about 8° left and right from straight ahead…
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Jul 15, 2020
I'm seeing multiple people posting a comparison of various face masks including their filtration rates and basically saying that if you're not wearing a surgical-grade mask, you're wasting your time. THIS IS NOT TRUE. 1/
It's scandalous that there is no clear guidance on this, but as best I can understand the current scientific thinking:
The risk of COVID transmission from surfaces is fairly low. The primary transmission method is person-to-person. 2/
You cannot buy a mask with a sufficiently fine weave, or with a filter capable of stopping the virus. However, the virus is not intrinsically airborne, it's carried in the water droplets we exhale. 3/
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Jul 1, 2020
Obviously missed this the first time around. I agree: $10/pg should be the absolute floor. Push for $15 every time and maybe we can get this up. I’ve NEVER taken a paying gig for less than $10 and I was a terrible letterer when I started!
As Aditya says, there are well-established letterers doing work for big companies on $20/pg and that’s not right.

Also, back end deals: I’ll only do back end for people I know and trust. Additionally, if you’re getting cut in for say 5-10%, ask for the same cut of the IP.
You may not get it, but if the book you worked on is a huge success and you took a chance on a back end deal, why the hell shouldn’t you get a percentage on that Hollywood/Netflix/HBO deal?
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