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The Narrating Four is a series of topics of mine in which I ask you to give the best and the worst examples of a particular kind of narrating. I divided it up in four different catagories:
-Wonderful and Wicked Writing
-Delicious and Dreadful Drawing
-Lovely and Lousy Lettering
-Charasmatic and Crappy Coloring
I'm in an alliteration mood, as you can see. :)

Next on the list is lettering. Who's got the best puns and expressions, like Scrooge's "unmistakable whirr of vowels"? Whose writing is odd, BLOCKY or you can't read a thing from it? Well, tell!

Note: don't mistake this topic for Wonderful and Wicked Writing. This is the place for the dialogues and puns in a story, the other's for writing.

By writing I mean ways of telling a story. This is a subcatagory, it only covers the dialogue.

Lettering usually means hand lettering the speech balloons. Letterer is the person who does that.
Timo

Egmont don't use hand lettering, they use computer lettering. In fact, I read somewhere on their German site that they use a program of theirs that helps the translator fit the text in the balloons. I always found it very easy to read that way, so I like it. Well, sometimes they mix up the dialogue of two characters in a panel, but - oh, well.
As for hand lettering, I haven't seen much, but I've seen some Barks stories in English, and I tend to like the lettering from before 1956 (I think it was his wife that did it afterwards?).