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Jodie Troutman
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Comic Stripper & Pro Letterer • Created Lit Brick, The Gospel of Carol, Sporkman • Lettered for DC Comics, IDW, Boom, Image, Oni, Scholastic, Maverick, Mad Cave • She/Her • 2001 Webcartoonists Choice Award Winner ✨ https://longtalljodie.com ✨
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 21d
Updated the calendar because, somehow, I shoved another book into October at the last minute.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 26m
This is like when you overflow the data of a Nintendo game and suddenly transport Mario to "World A-GlitchedGraphic".
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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 30m
Hey @lentesta.bsky.social, would this break Touring Plans?
Photograph of a wait time sign at Disneyland’s under refurbishment Big Thunder Mountain showing a wait time of A minutes.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1h
I know manga letterers get paid dick, but do NOT go into American comics planning on that $42, because you won't get it. You'll around half that, probably less. Those numbers are wildly incorrect for a majority of American comic letterers.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1h
The average of $42/page still seems REALLY high to me, like more than double the average rate I'm offered by every publisher, but it's decidedly possible I'm underpaid.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1h
It's hard to recover from a "romance" dream, wherein I love and am loved in return. I spend the entire next day feeling wistful and alone.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 2h
Noted Klingon, J'Daniel.
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Every Star Trek Card @everystartrekcard.bsky.social · 7h

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙚: 𝘑'𝘋𝘢𝘯
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙚: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭
𝘼𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝘒𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘯
𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙚: 𝘚𝘊𝘐𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲!
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Name: J'Dan Card Type: Personnel Affiliation: Klingon Role: SCIENCE Lore: One of many Klingons trained in the field of science. He smuggled Federation secrets to the Romulans in the form of amino acid codes. Card Text: SCIENCE Exobiology Treachery Int Rng: 2 Cun Wpn: 6 Str Shd: 6 Rarity: 262 C
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 2h
That might help, because that math doesn't math at all. I've worked for almost every major publisher at this point, and it's almost always a flat $20/page, or $25 if I'm extremely lucky.

I know other letterers have cleared higher, but that survey average feels disingenuous.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 3h
Jodie's Long Halloween continues! It's the crew of the USS Enterprise versus Scary Plant Monsters, out today!
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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 4h
Out now this #NCBD!

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS - SEEDS OF SALVATION #2!

By @robbiethompson.bsky.social , Travis Mercer, @longtalljodie.com, @heatherantos.bsky.social, @sercas.bsky.social and myself!
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Farrell Destination: Bloodlines @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 13h
Drew Struzan IS Butch Matson.
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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 14h
That time Drew Struzan did a cover for Superman #800 (an homage to ACtion Comics #1 that featured himself in the corner!).
Drew Struzan's painted image of Superman lifting a car The iconic cover to Action Comics #1 where Superman is lifting a car
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14h
Oh, I just remembered the relatively obscure VERNE'S WORLD. Was a Europe-only release that picked up fans over here when a digital recreation was a made. It's a mish-mash of Jules Verne stuff into a single table.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14h
I dunno if you need the CRKD if you already like the PDP fine. But it does have the perk of being actively supported by a company that's trying to revive these games and that is working consistently with the community.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14h
(Stern Indy is an extremely simple and easy table, especially in its most recent VPX iteration. Really easy to control the ball and almost everywhere you shoot the ball is safe. Though in real life, the Ark shot is scarier than in the digital realm.)
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14h
Jadzia already mentioned it! Phantom of the Opera is the big one. Absolutely designed to cash-in on the then-new and popular musical, but based entirely on the book.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14h
AW MAN, I was THIS CLOSE to the Final Adventure.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 16h
The Riffmaster is fine. I used it for a year, it's solid and definitely the best Rock Band style guitar ever made. But the CRKD Les Paul blows it out of the water in every regard.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 16h
They're almost too light, though. They feel sort of insubstantial. Definitely not replacing my standard CRKDtar neck yet, but it's certainly pretty cool.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 16h
I finally got the CRKD guitar solo neck today and it feels WILD. Like, it's a Rock Band neck, they made a Rock Band neck. It has the keys recessed into the neck, it was the solo keys, and they all feel lighter. The wild part, though, is that they're LOUDER than the Guitar Hero frets.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 18h
Congrats!
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 19h
People would make fun of you for driving it, but they'd be wrong.
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 19h
National Dessert Day!

Thought I'd celebrate by doing a doodle of me and @andyharvest.bsky.social's two kids, Dae and Emily from the fantasy baking book CRUMBLE.

Andrea was the one who brought my script to life with her art, but I thought it would be fun to draw the kids once myself.
An illustration of a light airy kitchen. In the foreground we see two kids, Dae on the left, and Emily on the right. The two work at a separate work table with bowls and ingredients. Emily is perched on a stool, pouring flour into the bowl. She's the mastermind of this operation. Dae leans into the table, one hand against their face, the other holding the spoon. They know if they wait long enough they'll get all the spoils of Emily's baking.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 19h
I think we all assumed that there's no way she stays married to that troll if she doesn't 100% agree with him.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 20h
Several of these wrap around covers were available as postcards in the Star Tours gift shop at Disneyland in the late 90s. I've still got 'em!
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 21h
The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the storm (1996): Covert art by Drew Struzan
The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the storm (1996): Covert art by Drew Struzan
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 20h
Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.bsky.social · 21h
🚀RETURN TO MÁS VEGAS 🚀

🌭The crew of The Wurst is BACK for one night of betting big, risking it all, and - as always - ensuring the ball is ROLLING UP!

Get your tickets now to see Dimension 20 Live: Viva Más Vegas at the MGM Grand on Nov. 1st!

🎨Art by @Caitmayart.com
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 20h
Yeah! From DC Pride 2025.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 20h
That page (from Star Trek #500, I forgot to label things) is maybe my favorite page I've ever lettered and I'm not sure it's ever gonna get topped.
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