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Inside Deep 6
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Fanboys Don’t Count
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Getting to Know the Letterer
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Who is... Randy Gentile?

After bouncing around at a few local colleges in upstate New York, Randy Gentile made the decision to move to New York City where he attended Pratt Institute. He landed an internship in the famous Marvel Bullpen and was able to turn that into a full-time gig in the now defunct Marvel in-house lettering department. He later transitioned to Chris Eliopoulos’ Virtual Calligraphy lettering studio.

With VC he lettered damn near every Marvel book at one time or another including Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men, Punisher, and Marville… wait, Marville?

Anyway, after 7 years of lettering Randy decided to make a go of it on his own without the aid of Chris “Obi-Wan” Eliopoulos. Since then he’s begun lettering for DC Comics where his work can be seen in funny books like Batman, Detective Comics, Gotham Underground, Teen Titans and Booster Gold.

Outside of his lettering work he self-publishes an autobiographical comic called NYComix and an uber-fast paced superhero strip called Randall. Both comics have been featured on Comic Geek Speak and Fanboy Radio.

When he’s not wallowing in lettering self-pity he spends his time in Brooklyn along with his lovely wife, Ereisa and their three cats Finnian, Don Fanucci and Olive.

Inside Deep 6

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I’m changing it up a bit this week with a little 6-part Documentary that I shot and conducted at Deep6 Studio.

The Deep6 Studio is located in Gowanus, Brooklyn and is home to Joan Reilly, Tim Hamilton, Leland Purvis, Mike Cavallaro, Dean Haspiel, and Simon Fraser. All of whom are members of the ground breaking web comic collective Ac-Ti-Vate

If you’re not checking out Ac-Ti-Vate every day you’re truly missing out on some of the best comics being produced today. We’re talking Eisner Award Nominees here, folks.
So check out the videos and enjoy. I promise you you’ll learn something. Plus you’ll have tons of free comix to read!

Special thanks to Dean Haspiel for setting this up and to Steve Flack for editing this bad boy together.





















Thanks for reading (and watching).

Font You!
Randy


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