Tom Frame
Tom Frame (1931 – 14 July 2006) was a British comics letterer. He created dialogue for the majority of the Judge Dredd strips, as well as other stories including over 300 stories in 2000 AD, Transformers and Sonic the Comic. Frame used a combination of computer-based techniques, including a personal font based on his own hand-drawn lettering, and old-fashioned craft like cutting speech balloons by hand.
Tom Frame
- Born
- 1931
- Died
- 2006
- Occupation
- comics artist · letterer
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Tom Frame (1931 – 14 July 2006) was a British comics letterer. He created dialogue for the majority of the Judge Dredd strips, as well as other stories including over 300 stories in 2000 AD, Transformers and Sonic the Comic. Frame used a combination of computer-based techniques, including a personal font based on his own hand-drawn lettering, and old-fashioned craft like cutting speech balloons by hand.
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Born in 1931, died in 2006.
Tom Frame (1931–2006) was a comics artist and letterer.
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