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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

596 - A Conversation with John Workman

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comic Book, Comic Books, Superhero, Arts, Comic, Comicbook, Graphic Novel, Comics, Comicbooks, Arts & Entertainment

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2009

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

One of the finest letterers in the business, John Workman, joins us for a fun-filled discussion about his career. Not only does he fill those word balloons, but he writes, draws, and edits too!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Comic Key Speak, Episode 596, a conversation with John Workman.

0:14.3

Welcome to Comic Key Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.

0:16.3

I'm Adam Murdo.

0:17.1

I'm Brian Christman.

0:17.9

I'm Jamie D.

0:19.3

And this episode of Comic Geek Speak is sponsored by in-stock trades.com. So you're shopping for trade paperbacks, maybe some hard covers, maybe manga, maybe books about comics, because you're trying to cut back in your monthlies because they're too expensive, and so you're going to trades, but now trades are getting more expensive, and you just don't know what to do, so you've got to save some money, so you go there,

0:41.1

and you'll save big 37% off, up to 37% off.

0:45.7

Most of your Marvel DC stuff will be 37%.

0:48.2

And it's awesome.

0:51.3

It's like the name suggests everything that's on the website is in stock when you go there, so you're not going to put 10 things in your cart and find out that they can only ship three of them. They only have what they have, and that's what they have. So you'll go there, you'll get it, and it'll ship out right to you immediately. No waiting. And if you order $50 or more, you'll get free shipping. So that's hard

1:12.9

to pass up. And let's face it, $50 with a trade paperbacks, not hard to do. It sounds like it might

1:18.7

be a lot, but, you know, no sweat, especially when you throw some hard covers in there. You got

1:23.3

these absolute additions with their 50 bucks for just one of them, you know, $100 at regular

1:27.8

price, you get them for like $60, $65, something like that.

1:31.3

It's awesome.

1:32.4

So go to instock trades.com, fill out an order, do your part, save the economy, help

1:39.8

comics.

1:41.0

It's a family-run business.

1:42.8

They've been going for just about four years now. In June,

1:46.1

it'll be their four-year anniversary. You can believe that. It's amazing. So check it out,

1:51.5

instock trades.com. All right, in this episode, we're going to talk to the letterer, John Workman.

1:58.9

He's been in the business for a very long time, and he's got a lot more

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