JG Roshell

John Roshell
File:John Roshell.jpg
About
Also known as	JG Roshell Mr. Fontastic
Title	Letterer
Date of birth	5 April 1970
Origin	Mountain View, CA, USA
Gender
Website
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JG Roshell, of Comicraft, is a comic book letterer.

About

JG Roshell has lettered a number of graphic novels, most notably numerous issues of Astro City. Some of his other work can be seen in KISS: Psycho Circus, Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones, The Sentry, Wolverine: Origin, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Hulk: Gray, Danger Girl, Southland Tales, and Elephantmen: The Pilot.

In addition to lettering, John has also created hundreds of fonts and typefaces. He is considered a pioneer in the use of the computer to letter comics. Additionally, John designs logos, trade paperback/hardcover collections (including the Heroes graphic novel collection), and creates and maintains the Active Images Network of websites.

Trivia

• Comicraft was brought on to do Heroes work because John Roshell of Comicraft knows two producers: Jeph Loeb is a professional client, and Jesse Alexander is a personal friend. In fact, Jeph and Jesse argued over whose "guy" would be better for the job, until they realized that they were talking about the same guy. [1]
• JG helped create 9thwonders.com and still has a hand in its maintenance.
• In 2008, JG was nominated for an Eisner Award for his work on the Heroes graphic novel collection.

External Links

• Comicraft
• Image Comics
• John Roshell's fonts
• Interview with John "JG" Roshell about lettering Heroes comics, 5/2007
• Interview with JG Roshell at 9thwonders.com, 7/26/2007: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3