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Oakley, a staff letterer at Marvel for just over a year, explains his accidental entry into lettering after attending the Joe Kubert School, and his day-to-day duties including last-minute corrections and logo design (he designed the Mephisto logo). He talks craft: preference for a filed-down #107 Crowquill nib over Rapidographs, freehand balloon shapes, aversion to typeset copy in comics, and admiration for Jim Novak's balloon technique.