How to Make a Style Guide for Your Comic

Podcast: Comic Lab · Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett

Opublikowano: 2026-09-17

How much of a successful comics career depends on being temporarily delusional? Brad and Dave suspect it may be more than anyone wants to admit. Then, a listener asks about creating a style guide for a comic. Brad and Dave discuss the small decisions that help lettering remain clear, consistent, and easy to read — from spelling out numerals and avoiding hyphenated line breaks to shaping word balloons, using all-caps lettering, and deciding whether “livestream” is one word or two. Finally, they look back at the pivotal “sliding doors” moments that could have sent their careers in entirel...