A Blog Recommendation

Image © Marvel Comics.

I’m real busy this week and probably won’t have time for a blog post today or tomorrow, but in the meantime, I’d like to recommend the blog of fellow logo designer and comics historian Alex Jay. It’s called Tenth Letter of the Alphabet, and features many of articles that I find fascinating, like the recent in-depth study of the Star Wars logos, as well as Alex’s research into comics letterers and designers. Most recently he put up this picture of the Marvel Bullpen. It’s not dated, but it has to be from the early to mid 1950s, as it includes Joe Letterese and Stan Starkman, who were laid off with most of these guys when publisher Martin Goodman decided to drastically cut his comics line. Letterese and Starkman came to DC, and both were working there by the later 1950s. Too bad the picture isn’t better, I’ve never seen photos of some of these folks, but at least we have this one. Take some time to look through Alex’s blog, if you like mine you’ll probably like his.