Andy Diggle is reporting over at his blog that the great Tom Frame, comic book letterer, colourist and noted Rolls Royce owner has passed away. I can't find a decent synopsis of his lengthy career anywhere, though click on the header for a link to his wikipedia entry. Suffice to say, 2000AD without Frame's lettering will seem quite different, he's been the archetypical UK comic book letterer for as long as I can remember, the default setting in my head when I think of any famous Tooth dialogue - "gaze into the fist of Dredd" (on the t-shirt, above)? That's his, as integral to the work as Wagner's words and Bolland's art.
I hope editorial at Rebellion choose to keep all Dredd stories lettered in whatever computerised fonts based on his hand lettering Tom has left behind.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
2000AD news of a sadder kind
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fuck :-(
Over the years, I've been guilty of taking lettering for granted, but the one I always recognised as plowing his own furrow, was Frame. In fact, when I went on font-gathering binges, I was always actively looking out for one based on his hand lettering. I always expected some enterprising soul would hve bootlegged one: called it "Brit Comics" or suchlike.
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