seeing my lettering and credits in print and in my hands for the first time... having something i've worked on join my collection... 🥹 what a great way to end this year

Hi! Here's every manga I lettered in 2025. 40 volumes, maybe 43ish if you count omnibuses. This was a recovery year for me "technically" but I still ended up pretty overloaded. I have about the right workload, but time management is a tricky beast. Will try better next year!

Since New Years is coming up... Remember! You don't need to be the best writer or the best artist to create a story that resonates with people. All you need is hyper-fixation and a can-do-attitude!

Here's my manga work year-in-review for 2025!

Yayyyy! Another year of lettering! Here's my 2025 year in review~ 😊 Thank you to everyone who has given me opportunities this year and I hope to get to work with even more amazing people next year!!

One more year to celebrate! Here is the books I've worked on this year. I love romantic and cutesy stories and my clients know it (ignore the casual gore around there lol). Also, welcome to my cottage core era.

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If before the new year you're looking for more toxic gay romance, may I please interest you in SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, the critically acclaimed toxic mafia au graphic novel to end all mafia aus? www.abramsbooks.com/product/smok...

Was working on a way to show two characters saying something simultaneously that isn't just a balloon with two tails, and I think I figured out a pretty fun way to do it:

aaand here’s the 2025 yearly roundup of all the manga I’ve edited this year! I’m so proud of the work we’ve put into maid to skate in particular because of what suzushiro sensei’s work means to me🥺 I’d also like to claim credit, responsibility, and blame for all the yuri viz is finally publishing! 😂

comics creators, this is the best comicraft sale of the year. if you’re in the market for new fonts, don’t miss this 👇

Just 5 days until 2026 & Comicraft's Annual Never-to-be-Repeated Font Sale. O is for OMNISCIENT, a narrative caption font with loads of extras and alternates… P is for POWER POP, a revolutionary Sound Effect font with variable axes for Weight and Pop! Collect 'em all on NYD & comicbookfonts.com

Fire study

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

got mother- and siblings-in-law hooked on gay hockey show my work here is done

It's time for my year-end lettering round up!

lettering pals, i got an ipad for christmas!!!!! i've been really wanting one to draw and do lettering on. if any of y'all have tips, specifically for CSP lettering and drawing, can we talk about it? i need advice on which pen i should get for this!!!! 😭💛

Its the end of 2025‼️ Here's my year of lettering... I'd say its a pretty good improvement from last year, and I'm grateful for that! Cheers to another year of the lettering Gods bestowing bountiful harvest upon a young lettering peasant such as I... ╰⁠(⁠*⁠´⁠︶⁠`⁠*⁠)⁠╯

If you stopped wearing masks, you can start again anytime! At *least* while you’re traveling! Don’t ruin your holidays with covid or flu.

Well... now that I've finished this year's work, I've done my annual review and... well... I think I've counted 62 volumes 🫠 which I think is my record, but I'm not going to repeat it... it's been so stressful! 😩 It will surely halve next year, I want to return to my regular life! ✨

Doing what everybody else is doing and posting a list of manga I lettered in 2025. Had a lot of fun with a lot of great books this past year.

ATTENTION CARTOONISTS! 📢 Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival! Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible. See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.

sugar....... spice....... and everything nice.......

it's that time for an end-of-year lettering review!! the amount of work i did was DOUBLE what i did in 2024. i really locked in this year and next year i'll be even busier!! i'm so thankful that i get to do this job and chat with so many cool people. cheers to more great things in 2026!!! 🫶🫶

Spent some time yesterday with my husband hanging up art I’ve had for ages. I think about a year ago I asked @sara.pizza to pick this up at a convention for me. It’s a @yukoart.bsky.social poster print of Laika the dog and it’s huge and I absolutely love it.

happy holidays to everyone gently probing their older family about AI literacy

The first pictures of the English release of Billy Bat are out! So excited show show off what @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and I did. These pages have fun bits where we styled the text closer to what an American comic from 1949 would look like. More info in the alt text!

these are some "simple" examples from chapter 19. i did a LOT of sfx in that chapter, theres a good variety of easy and slightly difficult ones if you go back to find them! the sfx usually are never the thing that take time. it's redrawing the artwork. the day layered files become normalized....😮‍💨

@sara.pizza hosts a great starter pack for manga letterers: go.bsky.app/8XNn7Eu

my brain goes arthur's clenched fist meme when gmail tries to correct the verb "letter" into "write"

if anyone even remotely suggests to me they won’t go after adults next, i’m going to just start shrieking in their ear like an exotic bird

DID YA KNOW?! I Witnessed The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is a Junior Library Gold Standard Selection?!?! 🥺 Pre-Order here!! bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

publishing workers need raises and additional staffing, not AI workflow optimizations

hoping to interview more lettering legends like this next year 🙏💖

The Manga Letters – Interview with Sabrina Heep by @sara.pizza Prolific manga letterer Sabrina Heep reflects on her career bringing iconic titles to English-speaking audiences, from Nana to Chainsaw Man.

when our dog passed, my wife and I decided we’d try traveling as much as possible, since we spent the majority of our 20’s taking care of her. it’s only been 6 months, but i feel that having a dog at home is far better than traveling, by a long shot

I've officially been lettering One Piece for 20 years.

Normal painting in Blender! This isn't a texture, mind you. Normals are basically how the software determines what direction a surface is facing, by this funky rainbow thing. Painting them in slightly different colors gives the illusion of physical brush strokes.

A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won't say what they're using the list for.

TIL that ONIX has product format codes for flipped and unflipped manga. I wonder if anyone actually uses them

Jon Babcock’s hand lettering from Marvel’s RUINS #1 (1995). 2/2

As promised to my fellow lettering nerds: Check this out! I am now the proud (humbled, honored) owner of all of legendary letterer, Jon Babcock’s hand lettered vellum overlays from Marvel’s RUINS #1 from 1995! Thank you, Jon!!! 1/1

"New characters don't sell." "Gay characters don't sell." "Trans characters don't sell."

allowing cis dudes access to HRT scripts for “mood and vitality,” but not trans dudes for basically the same thing is the definition of gender-based discrimination

Sometimes I get lucky and can reuse stuff like the 4 and 5 here. The exclamation point might have been okay to use, but I drew my own that's very similar so it doesn't stand out from the rest of the text I drew.

After many volumes of Gundam parodies, we get an Evangelion parody! Got to match the English text styles from Evangelion here.

For the white text here, I used the aside font as a guide and arranged the puffed of the script in roughly the same layout as in Japanese. Then I traced them with a brush with similar pointy ends.

Otaku Elf volume 10 is out now! The very first book I lettered was volume 1 of this, and I'm so happy to see it come this far. It's always a big challenge to letter,and I've got a thread of neat stuff from this volume below!

All this to say if YOU 🫵 are a small press (or individual artist) and want to hire me to make something beautiful as well as make your life easier please reach out. I can have very reasonable rates that work for your life. I can chat paper and color with your printer! I’ll help make cool things!!!

Once again it’s the time when I post the stack of books I designed which were published within this calendar year. This was a year of many changes! Next year will look very different (full of manga lol), but as always I’m so grateful for every artists’ trust. I love making your books shine.