Billy Bat volume 1 is out in English now! It's my favorite comic ever, and I'm so grateful that I get to letter this edition alongside @lettererbrendo.bsky.social. We literally fantasized for years about stylistic choices we would make if we ever got to letter it, and I want to share about those!

Record Journey Vol. 1 releases today! This is one of the titles I’ve been most excited about. I’ve been interested in this series long before it even got licensed and as soon as I saw Titan announce it, I begged my editor to let me work on it haha 😆 I hope everyone enjoys it! #manga #lettering

Strongest Exorcist in history? ❌ Biggest shy boy in history? ✅ Get Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Vol. 1: https://bit.ly/4wcEBHp

First SFX Today FWMP

This is being rescheduled for next weekend! Time: May 16th @ 5PM EDT

To be fair, that is indeed a terrifying career choice 🙃 (via Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Vol. 1)

A 9 out of 10 review for Betrothed to a Fox Demon?! Hell yeah!!

I'm glad this series is coming to print, and being the GN letterer, Kiyoshi is the hardest manga I've worked on! But I like how things end when I complete the first Vol. lettering! A big shoutout to @lettererbrendo.bsky.social for the wonderful on the Simuls!

My Lettering for Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi is printed on one of the ENG merch! Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Vol. 1, released on May 5: t.co/HnsVHDMCdZ Shonen Jump Merch's Store: shonenjumpstore.com/collections/...

typesetting (only one part of lettering) is not just "put in text". you need to know what looks good and stupid AI does not know that! and every attempt at this has always been something ugly as hell, disrespectful af, that someone in my position has to clean up!! wasting everyone's time and money!!

“GlobalComix’s AI translation copilot delivers 85–90% cost savings compared to industry-standard manual translation.” These AI tools will always rely on underpaid freelancers doing three jobs for a fraction of the wage of one. They’re merely a justification for not paying people.

Announcement: I’m the editor of Betrothed to a Fox Demon, which is translated by @kransom.bsky.social (Bakemonogatari, Attack on Titan) and lettered by @bensidi.bsky.social (Sanda, Kinato’s Magic)! Come join us on a shonen fantasy adventure…where the main couple is married from the start!

The Fox manga "Betrothed to a Fox Demon" has finally been released. Lettered by me, translated by Ko Ransom, and edited by the amazing @edomonogatari.bsky.social It was funny to work on that project! Give it a read! Free preview squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us/produc...

The awards committee is proud to announce that nominations are open for the ✨ LEAST PRESTIGIOUS MANGA LOCALIZATION AWARDS ✨ form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Totally surreal feeling that I can hold an English copy of Billy Bat in my hands. Even more that I got to work on it with @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and @editortiina.bsky.social. Super grateful to @abramskana.bsky.social for bringing it bringing us on. Order it! www.abramsbooks.com/product/bill...

A free Wavy Dash library I made for InDesign for anybody who wants it. Comes in handy for lettering manga 🔥 drive.google.com/file/d/1NTVV... #indesign

MAGICAL GIRL DANDELION DAY 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

Manga companies, please pay us $8/page! The small and new publishers can do it, surely the big companies with owners who make $3 million+ per year can afford it too!! x.com/MangaAlerts/...

I'm lettering the English version of the manga adaptation of the hit indie-animated series "The Amazing Digital Circus", it's such a funny series!

Finally, this is out! I did the lettering for Kinato's Magic! I'll share some cool SFXs here! I liked the art and found the first chapter interesting tho! First, I designed a simple logo! Lettered by Me, translation by Andria McKnight (short thread)

It's the End of the year!!! And here I'm sharing with all of you what I did this year (As my first step since I started working in this industry) Not much of number but I'm really proud that I reached this far! And I'm looking for the next year! Early Happy New Year!

2025 was actually the first year where my series went to print, and my first year consistently working on GNs!!! 🎉 more to come for next year!! so much more!!!!!

If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.

happy letterer appreciation day! if you’d like to follow more manga letterers here, I have a list for you: go.bsky.app/8XNn7Eu

Lettered by me and @cranchyroll.com!!!

I am unbelievably excited to say that @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and I are lettering the English release of Billy Bat! Both of us!

I'm having some cute Pretzel stickers printed for ANYC, but I don't think they'll get here in time 😭🫠

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

That's why humans' lettering can't be replaced! STOP SUPPORTING AI SHIT!

I’ll be the letterer on this classic manga 💥💥💥

BAM 💥 (via Sanda Vol.3)

See everyone in Spring for this crazy series 🫶🫶🫶🪲🪲

Here's the full list of 2025 Screentoney Award winners! Thank you everyone for submitting awards and celebrating the extremely talented folks in this industry!

Always waiting Screentoney!! What a big honor!! Love you guys 🥰

The Screentoney Award for "Still dope hand lettering", "Super Exciting Print Debut With Really Sick SoundEffects!", and "Super Unique Hand Drawn SFX" goes to @bensidi.bsky.social

the awards committee has finished lovingly lettering the certificate template by hand! the nomination form will be closed tomorrow (5/31) at 5PM ET: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Didn't post here for a while, here is a page full of sfx haha 🫣

The 2025 Screentoney Award Ceremony will happen HERE on June 1st! Get your nominations in while you still can: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

it's the MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR 🎄✨ the screentoney awards are officially accepting nominations for 2025! nominate your favorite manga localization pros and find the rules over here: forms.gle/jQzo2QeiiNy1...

Another series knocked the final volume in English! It was a honor to letter this short series, this one required more work than others sometimes need a lot of retouching, but overall I think this deserves the work I did in it and deserves to get a chance to read!

My fav SFXs I did for @starfruitbooks.bsky.social Longears title!!! Pls check it out on Azuki and soon in print! Another title I shared with @odisletters.bsky.social hehe

STOMP 🦶

Here it is! The final results of the Let's Make a Wisconsin Manga 2025 panel! Ideas came from the audience, and it was drawn by @radarlakekosh.bsky.social !I did the lettering. It was a fun time! #AMKE2025 #WisconsinManga2025

Here is our rough draft of the 2025 Let's Make a Wisconsin Manga panel! Ideas from the crowd, drawn by @radarlakekosh.bsky.social, lettering by me. #AMKE2025 #WisconsinManga2025

Today SFX

it has been a while since I posted some SFX, so let's go with RUMBLE from Outsiders Vol. 2

As a fan of the historical theme, I'm thrilled to have been the letterer for this book. I enjoyed the characters, and the story flows nicely. I recommend you give it a try! Check it here: titan-comics.com/c/2173-farew... I'll put some of my SFX on this post👇

Two books that I lettered are released on the same day, haha! I hope that you'll enjoy both!

back to drawing my classic SFXs