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Interview with the prolific letterer and children's book illustrator, who has just signed an exclusive three-year lettering contract with DC. Discusses his regular assignments on Amethyst, Legion of Super-Heroes, Ronin, The Omega Men, and Swamp Thing, as well as his parallel career writing and drawing Tweety and Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, and Yosemite Sam for Western, plus children's books and Heathcliff storybooks for Marvel Books. Shares the amusing story of DC using his photograph for the "Mark, on the Man's Side" romance-column feature — and Marvel later reusing the same photo with drawn-on sideburns. Says he could "never do a superhero if I traced one" and traces his love of drawing to his grandfather's barber shop, where his childhood art was hung above the cash register.