sara linsley

Hi, folks. In-between lettering gigs, I'm working on the clean-up of Project BNib Condensed (bottom). Then I'll port all of these over to Fontlab. As you may know, the regular version (top) is already a finished font. Later, I'll make italic versions of both and get the set out to you.

she’s so hard to photograph but i love her

I’ve never felt qualified to talk with authority on type design but this one niche I can do lmao

happy to announce I'll also be running a workshop on how to make a nice hand-drawn font to use in your comics using only free tools later this summer!!
details incoming, but follow me here if you want updates ✨

Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:

1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.

2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.

Find your senators at reps.fyi

the lettering is sooooooooo good y’all

on this particular day...

Box Garden Beetle by Kondoh Akino
Glacier Bay edition coming this spring.

Production: translation by Ryan Holmberg, lettering by Tim Sun, and editing by emuh ruh & Ryan Holmberg.

thank you stephen!!

no u 🥺

"so imagine a football"

explaining how to format comic text in word balloons to an american

"so imagine a burger"

kitty on sunday kitty on sunday kitty on sunday

If you're a letterer, I bet you're as excited for this as I am.

a thoughtful demonstration of pro-worker workflow optimization that doesn’t mention an LLM in the year 2026??? more likely than u think

Automate your lettering, save your wrists!

I’ll be running a panel for @cartoonist.coop’s Nib & Ink Festival about how to make your computer do more work and prevent injury while lettering!

Time: May 9 @ 2PM EDT
Place: Zoom / remote

More info here: nif.cartoonist.coop/event/automa...

A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

don't we all

#art #cuteart #comic #cat

Cover of the book Name Her Holy on an eReader. Tropes called out are- Trans fem Valkyrie Found family A dead god rising from the grave, nbd Chronically ill chosen one Oath swearing as a lesbian love language Slowest of slowburns Cover art: Book cover art for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The cover has two women standing against a starry twilight background with a pale sun. At the forefront Kye stands facing forward, one hand held up with a cold flame and billowing black smoke. She is wearing dark purple robes with a high color and gold accents. She has dark wavy brown hair that comes to her chin, tan skin covered in light scars, and pale gray eyes. Behind her Jude stands in profile, a head taller than Kye. She is in leather armor stamped with meadow floral designs, holding a golden sword etched with light oak leaves. Jude is white, has long auburn hair in a braid with an undercut at the sides. She has a long scar across her nose and freckles on her cheeks. The sun rises behind her. A border of flowers and stars creates an arch above them with a deep purple background.

It’s World Book Day??

If you’re looking for something indie and queer, maybe try Name Her Holy—it’s got:

-Space
-Lesbians
-Lesbians fighting space gods 💖
-(and there’s fanfic out there? what more do you need??)

the-hallowed.carrd.co

An excellent Ditto

Now that it's out, I can finally share that I had the pleasure of working on the English localization of the wonderful Pokémon Pokopia alongside a fantastic team!

I've been waiting a looong time to see what people think of this one, and we are unbelievably proud of how it turned out!! HAVE FUN!

sending you love today!!!

the “bluesky” name is aging real well

On April 2 I'll be doing a guest lecture on character design and writing at the Center for Cartoon Studies

happy birfday!!!!!

When I was applying for software jobs pre-LLM-boom recruiters kept discouraging me from applying to jobs because I hadn’t been coding fulltime for 3 years. If you don’t code constantly at a high level, you forget.
I don’t know how these devs will justify their pay when they can’t even code anymore

devs who openly admit they’re a glorified QA are delusional

Oh come the fuck on.

We've talked about it a few times in the past, but to reiterate: Omoi uses 100% human translators, letterers, proofreaders, and editors for our exclusive series. We're proud to publish high-quality releases from skilled localization workers

The fact that this statement was put out the next day, from a Japanese company, makes me hopeful that they saw how hugely negative the sentiment was around AI immediately.

Can confirm, takes about this long and the best-paid translators only make about $1,000 per volume.

Editors make less per volume; I’m not sure about Letterers.

It’s not that expensive to get a good localization of a manga volume.

Don’t let them forget that.