Gaspar Saladino is my favorite letterer. I already liked his work when I started at DC Comics in 1977, and soon came to appreciate it even more seeing it in person. I also met Gaspar then, but didn’t get to know him well until much later. He was always friendly and cheerful, with a hearty […]
Two newspaper strips I’ve never seen with lettering by Gaspar Saladino turned up in my Facebook feed this weekend. This one was done in 1978 by comics artist Dave Cockrum. The writer credit might be a pen name or a real relative of Doc Savage creator Lester Dent, I haven’t found out anything more about […]
This is the big one that I’ve been working toward for a year and a half, combining data from dozens of posts about the work of my favorite letterer, which can be found on the COMICS CREATION and LOGO LINKS pages of this blog. If you have any questions about his work for particular titles […]
Walt Disney Productions had been licensing their properties to comic book publishers for many years, Western Publishing for decades, then Gladstone starting in 1985, but from 1990 to 1992, Disney decided to publish their own comics. They brought in comics veteran Len Wein as editor-in-chief, and Len was soon hiring many creators he’d known from […]
This article covers four publishers for which Gaspar Saladino did a small amount of lettering work. Artist Howard Bender worked for several years in the Marvel Comics production department and several more at DC Comics, where we worked together. In 1988 he and writer Craig Boldman created MR. FIXITT for Apple Comics (unrelated to the […]