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A brief interview with an up-and-coming freelance letterer who broke in through Americomics after years as a production artist for Pepsi-Cola and CBS News. Pinaha describes learning the technical fundamentals of comic-book lettering (Ames guide, stroke thickness, reduction) largely by trial and error on early Dragonfly and Mage issues, and articulates his philosophy that good lettering must be unobtrusive and serve storytelling by guiding the reader's eye.