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I don’t know how to letter, and I don’t like the way digital word balloons look in the hands of amateurs.  So, I penciled in all the words by hand, and inked word balloons around them.  My thinking was, if I letter fairly carefully, then use a font to finalize the words, my lettering and the font should occupy about the same amount of space.

Not even close.

Never try to fit letters in a pre-inked word balloon.  I knew it was a bad idea, but even so, thought it would work better than it has.  It’s too much work to add a word here and take out a word there, just so everything fits properly.  Windsor McKay, creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland, would squeeze letters in predefined word balloons until his characters sentences would run sideways up the right side of the balloon.  Funny, the best art nouveau comic creator ever did not care at all about how the words looked.

Well, I care.  Expect changes.