Thomas Paul Orzechowski is an American comic book letterer, primarily known for his work on Uncanny X-Men.
13 Facts About Tom Orzechowski
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In 1968, when Tom Orzechowski was 15, he met a group of aspiring comic book artists at the Detroit Triple Fan Fair comic convention in Detroit, and joined their comics club.
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An aspiring comic book artist, Tom Orzechowski quit drawing when he saw their work.
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None of the club members wanted to letter their own amateur comics so Tom Orzechowski took on those jobs.
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Tom Orzechowski left the X-Men books shortly after Chris Claremont, in 1993.
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Tom Orzechowski joined the team putting out Image Comics' Spawn 1992, where his title was copy editor for most of the first six years.
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Tom Orzechowski worked for the manga packaging outfit Studio Proteus from 1989 until their demise in 2004.
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Studio Proteus titles on which Tom Orzechowski worked included Nausicaa, Appleseed, Dominion, and Ghost in the Shell.
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Recently, Tom Orzechowski has been working on a comic book anthology called YEET Presents.
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Tom Orzechowski modeled his lettering on the Flash Gordon newspaper strips of the 1930s.
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Tom Orzechowski studied everything of Crumb's, and developed a lettering style based on all of those influences.
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In 1992, Tom Orzechowski was among the first letterers to experiment with computer fonts.
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Tom Orzechowski's wife is L Lois Buhalis, herself a letterer in the comics industry for two decades.