Nate Piekos of Blambot
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20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nom. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.
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Joined June 2009
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Stay open and curious, and question your own assumptions. That’s how you unlock hidden wisdom and grow beyond just bossing people around or forcing control.
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Almost all the hardware is in for my next guitar build! Just waiting on a neck plate. All gold Fender parts!
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I watched this live when I was 12 years old!
Stop what you're doing and watch the Marvel Universe float from the 1987 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, set to the music from Back to the Future and also RoboCop is there?!
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That's a wrap for me in the studio. I'm taking a break from Thursday to Sunday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hope you have a great turkey day if you celebrate. Don't forget, Blambot's biggest sale of the year starts on Cyber Monday, Dec. 1st! 25% off! Catch you on the flip side.
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I have contributed Blambot's Damn Noisy Kids font for a charity project by Village Green Studio for a poster limited to 100 units, and all proceeds go to the War Child organization. Please consider contributing! Poster: https://t.co/cbn8IYg2yR War Child: https://t.co/pnFT9fQtqE
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I like to do quick mock-ups of ideas for guitar builds--here's the idea that I'm actually finding parts for right now. I find black and gold classy as fuck.
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This morning's warm-up sketch. I was looking through some newspapers from the early 1900s, and found these wonderful little hand drawn maps of California. Using disposable tech pens, I tried to capture the feeling of the lettering. Those upturned "e"s! Is this a keeper?
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So what do I do when there's a lull of incoming work from publishers? Well, I work on fonts mostly. I also start on design projects that were scheduled further out. There's always SOMETHING I can work on. (#DontKeepAllYourEggsinOneBasket)
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Freelance comics before a holiday is always really unpredictable. It's either a 4-alarm fire and batshit crazy, or it's dead quiet and nothing's really coming in to be worked on. And you never really know until a few days before. Looks like pre-turkey day = dead quiet this year.
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Blambot's Cyber Week sale is coming! Are you ready for the biggest sale of the year? From December 1st to 8th, 2025, save 25% off your orders! Stay tuned!!
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The best picture I took all night at the the Tom Morello show on Saturday; during the Chris Cornell tribute where Tom played Like a Stone on a darkened stage with just a spotlight on an empty mic stand. Decided to print and frame this one.
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Today, the universe has conspired to prevent me from getting anything done. In 5 hours, I've only dressed 2 covers and did a round of correx on a Dark Horse book. Too many phone calls, emails and work being done outside that I had to keep an eye on. SIGH.
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Tom Morello with Concetta and I, before his show last Saturday night.
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Tom’s Chris Cornell tribute was heart wrenching. He walked out of the spotlight so it was shining just on an empty mic stand and played Like a Stone in the dark without lyrics. People were sobbing.
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Front row and meet & greet with Tom Morello last night. I worked on his Dark Horse Comics series, ORCHID, back in 2011/12 and it was nice to chat again after so long.
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My indecisiveness with Project Gray Ghost continues...Because the bold version was based on a small filbert brush, I started going down a rabbit hole of vintage hand-painted sign lettering, and wondered if the regular version might look good in a thinner wedge brush style. Hmm.
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