Nate Piekos of Blambot
@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.
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: buff.ly/gDcIGLy
Wrapping up Skottie Young's custom font in Illustrator. Getting ready to port it over to Fontlab for programming...
No idea! I left any pronunciation to Gerard. But I imagine it’s very direct and grumpy sounding.
Oh, interesting! I wonder if you have an idea of how the language would sound? Would the sound of a language inspire the way you write it? Ex, sharp or more rounded? I saw you used or considered accents.
RIP, Ozzy. The prince of darkness has left us. \m/ \m/
AMERICAN CAPER. Featuring a murderer’s row of crime fiction talent. Creator & Writer: Dan Houser Producer & Additional Writing: Lazlow Story Layout & Pencils: David Lapham Finishes: @chrisacomics Colorist: Lee Loughridge Series Cover Artist: @BoyCartoonist Editors: @sxbond,…
Well, here's another new project I can finally talk about: AMERICAN CAPER! ign.com/articles/ameri…
Lovely day. I have to be honest, I had no idea SDCC was this weekend until about five minutes ago. I pay less and less attention to industry news/cons lately. Turns out I get more done, and my mood is generally better for it.
Own a piece of My Chemical Romance history! Two original hand-drawn sketches of the language, Keposhka, developed by Nate Piekos & Gerard Way, are being auctioned off on eBay. Bid from 7/21 to 7/28! Sheet 1: buff.ly/5EWWMrV Sheet 2: buff.ly/LZTF2TQ
THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLACK PARADE, an article by Nate Piekos, creator of the fonts used for the 2025 My Chemical Romance Long Live the Black Parade tour! Learn all about the development of the official language of Draag! blambot.com/pages/the-lang…
Ha! That’s cool. Hadn’t seen that one yet.
@blambot I love the keposhka tour shirt so dang much (the picture is blurry and not mine, sorry)
Just had a special eye test where I have to be dilated for 12hrs. It’s a test they usually only do for Air Force pilots. (My doc is a Lt. Colonel) So I’m home in the dark for the rest of the day listening to podcasts. Hopefully this new prescription resolves some of my eye strain
I know I don’t really NEED it…but I really WANT it… a.co/d/15gF8gI
I'm not working on pronunciation! Too complicated for me! I just make pretty letters.
😭everyone’s gonna become fluent in it by the end of the tour, I think you might’ve mentioned it but are you guys still working on pronunciation? Or is it mainly lettering?
HA! I can't even read it.
Learning to read Keposhka pretty well at this point! “Behave.”
Hey, MCR fans -- the band just posted something fun for you on YouTube.
