Todd Klein was born on January 28,1951 and is an American comic book letterer, logo designer, and occasional writer, primarily for DC Comics.
13 Facts About Todd Klein
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Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff production worker.
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Workman helped Todd Klein get started with the basic tools and techniques, and Todd Klein studied the work of Gaspar Saladino, Workman, Ben Oda, and John Costanza; as well as Marvel Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski, Jim Novak, and Joe Rosen.
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Todd Klein got more work as a letterer, keeping him very busy.
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Todd Klein has spent long periods on DC's Detective Comics ; Wonder Woman and Vertigo's Testament.
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Todd Klein is most known for his work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman, where he developed very distinctive dialogue balloons and lettering for various characters, especially Dream and his siblings.
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Todd Klein saw the growing prevalence of computerized lettering in the early 1990s and quickly realized it was the wave of the future.
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Todd Klein had met Comicraft owners Richard Starkings and John Gaushell at the 1993 San Diego Comic-Con, and in 1994, he asked them to help him get started with computer lettering by creating a few fonts based on Klein's hand lettering.
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Todd Klein bought his first Macintosh computer in late 1994 and started learning how to make fonts himself.
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Since 1995, Todd Klein has created a library of over 100 of his own fonts.
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Todd Klein began creating logos for DC when he started there in 1977.
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From 1995 to the present, most of Todd Klein's logos have been done on the computer.
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Todd Klein has won the Best Letterer Harvey Award nine times, the first time in 1992 and the most recent one in 2013.