Nate Piekos of Blambot
@blambot.bsky.social
20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nominee. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.
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That's a wrap for me in the studio. I'm taking a break from Thursday to Sunday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hope you have a great turkey day if you celebrate. Don't forget, Blambot's biggest sale of the year starts on Cyber Monday, Dec. 1st! 25% off! Catch you on the flip side.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That's a wrap for me in the studio. I'm taking a break from Thursday to Sunday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hope you have a great turkey day if you celebrate. Don't forget, Blambot's biggest sale of the year starts on Cyber Monday, Dec. 1st! 25% off! Catch you on the flip side.
I have contributed Blambot's Damn Noisy Kids font for a charity project by Village Green Studio for a screen printed poster limited to 100 units, and all proceeds go to the War Child organization. Please consider contributing! Poster: shop.villagegreen.studio/print-3/ War Child: www.warchild.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I have contributed Blambot's Damn Noisy Kids font for a charity project by Village Green Studio for a screen printed poster limited to 100 units, and all proceeds go to the War Child organization. Please consider contributing! Poster: shop.villagegreen.studio/print-3/ War Child: www.warchild.org.uk
Yeah, I like the Copic Multiliners in various weights/styles. (Pardon my work gloves—keeps my hands warm and cuts down on friction.)
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Yeah, I like the Copic Multiliners in various weights/styles. (Pardon my work gloves—keeps my hands warm and cuts down on friction.)
I like to do quick mock-ups of ideas for guitar builds--here's the idea that I'm actually finding parts for right now. I find black and gold classy as fuck.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I like to do quick mock-ups of ideas for guitar builds--here's the idea that I'm actually finding parts for right now. I find black and gold classy as fuck.
This morning's warm-up "sketch". I was looking through some newspapers from the early 1900s, and found these wonderful little hand drawn maps of California. I broke out some disposable tech pens and tried to capture the feeling of the lettering. Those upturned "e"s intrigued me. Is this a keeper?
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This morning's warm-up "sketch". I was looking through some newspapers from the early 1900s, and found these wonderful little hand drawn maps of California. I broke out some disposable tech pens and tried to capture the feeling of the lettering. Those upturned "e"s intrigued me. Is this a keeper?
Thanks! I think most people don't care about my guitar obsession. They just put up with it for the font/comics updates. (However, I am working on a custom build right now. A black American Strat w/ gold hardware, a roasted neck, and hand-made Fralin pickups with a zebra humbucker in the bridge.)
Congrats on your downtime! Which guitar will you be disassembling, cleaning and reassembling this year, Mr P? Do a video for the youtube likes :)
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Thanks! I think most people don't care about my guitar obsession. They just put up with it for the font/comics updates. (However, I am working on a custom build right now. A black American Strat w/ gold hardware, a roasted neck, and hand-made Fralin pickups with a zebra humbucker in the bridge.)
Freelance comics work before a holiday is always really unpredictable. It's either a 4-alarm fire and batshit crazy, or it's dead quiet and nothing's really coming in to be worked on. And you never really know until a few days before. Looks like pre-turkey day = dead quiet this year.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Freelance comics work before a holiday is always really unpredictable. It's either a 4-alarm fire and batshit crazy, or it's dead quiet and nothing's really coming in to be worked on. And you never really know until a few days before. Looks like pre-turkey day = dead quiet this year.
Blambot's Cyber Week sale is coming! Are you ready for the biggest sale of the year? From December 1st to 8th, 2025, save 25% off your orders! Stay tuned!!
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Blambot's Cyber Week sale is coming! Are you ready for the biggest sale of the year? From December 1st to 8th, 2025, save 25% off your orders! Stay tuned!!
The best picture I took all night at the the Tom Morello show on Saturday; during the Chris Cornell tribute where Tom played Like a Stone on a darkened stage with just a spotlight on an empty mic stand. Decided to print and frame this one.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The best picture I took all night at the the Tom Morello show on Saturday; during the Chris Cornell tribute where Tom played Like a Stone on a darkened stage with just a spotlight on an empty mic stand. Decided to print and frame this one.
Today has been one of those days in the studio when the universe has conspired to prevent me from getting anything done. In 5 hours, I've only dressed 2 covers and did a round of correx on a Dark Horse book. Too many phone calls, emails and work being done outside that I had to keep an eye on. SIGH.
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today has been one of those days in the studio when the universe has conspired to prevent me from getting anything done. In 5 hours, I've only dressed 2 covers and did a round of correx on a Dark Horse book. Too many phone calls, emails and work being done outside that I had to keep an eye on. SIGH.
Front row and meet & greet with Tom Morello last night. I worked on his Dark Horse Comics series, ORCHID, back in 2011/12 and it was nice to chat again after so long.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Front row and meet & greet with Tom Morello last night. I worked on his Dark Horse Comics series, ORCHID, back in 2011/12 and it was nice to chat again after so long.
My indecisiveness with Project Gray Ghost continues...Because the bold version was based on a small filbert brush, I started going down a rabbit hole of vintage hand-painted sign lettering, and wondered if the regular version might look good in a thinner wedge brush style. Hmm.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My indecisiveness with Project Gray Ghost continues...Because the bold version was based on a small filbert brush, I started going down a rabbit hole of vintage hand-painted sign lettering, and wondered if the regular version might look good in a thinner wedge brush style. Hmm.
Ace in your face Friday
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ace in your face Friday
The light from our sun takes 8 min. and 20 seconds to reach earth. So if the sun hypothetically disappeared, we'd see daylight for an additional 8 min. and 20 seconds before...lights out. End of civilization. Earth and all the orbiting planets would drift off into space. Forever dark. HAPPY FRIDAY!
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The light from our sun takes 8 min. and 20 seconds to reach earth. So if the sun hypothetically disappeared, we'd see daylight for an additional 8 min. and 20 seconds before...lights out. End of civilization. Earth and all the orbiting planets would drift off into space. Forever dark. HAPPY FRIDAY!
New guitar pedal day! I have an unhealthy addiction to 60s/70s fuzz, so I can’t wait to try out the Mythos Argo Octave Fuzz!
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New guitar pedal day! I have an unhealthy addiction to 60s/70s fuzz, so I can’t wait to try out the Mythos Argo Octave Fuzz!
Now that Pixel Panels is done, I've jumped back over to Project Gray Ghost. I've revised these letters at least a half dozen times over the last 6 months. Starting to get closer to what I see in my head. Pic 1) Bottom two lines are my latest. Pic 2) A close-up. Pic 3) All the rejected versions.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Now that Pixel Panels is done, I've jumped back over to Project Gray Ghost. I've revised these letters at least a half dozen times over the last 6 months. Starting to get closer to what I see in my head. Pic 1) Bottom two lines are my latest. Pic 2) A close-up. Pic 3) All the rejected versions.
Yeah—it’s going to be less of a headache to just spend another $25 for a new one for sure.
Can't imagine how difficult this is to sharpen
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yeah—it’s going to be less of a headache to just spend another $25 for a new one for sure.
I declare that everything shall be crinkle cut for the foreseeable future; vegetables, raw meat, bagels, Amazon boxes, home intruders... EVERYTHING…mwahahaha!
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I declare that everything shall be crinkle cut for the foreseeable future; vegetables, raw meat, bagels, Amazon boxes, home intruders... EVERYTHING…mwahahaha!
First SFX of the day. Digitally hand-drawn with my custom "Schmarker BB" Illustrator brushes. (Available on Blambot.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
First SFX of the day. Digitally hand-drawn with my custom "Schmarker BB" Illustrator brushes. (Available on Blambot.)
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I took an hour walk to make some groceries on my way back and just then came across a LCS showcasing this blister with a comic lettered by @blambot.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I took an hour walk to make some groceries on my way back and just then came across a LCS showcasing this blister with a comic lettered by @blambot.bsky.social
A couple more. (Different idiot being eaten.) These are all done with my Brushy Brusherson set of custom Illustrator brushes, available on Blambot.com.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A couple more. (Different idiot being eaten.) These are all done with my Brushy Brusherson set of custom Illustrator brushes, available on Blambot.com.
First sound effects of the day. An idiot being eaten by a monster. (From two different panels on the page.)
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
First sound effects of the day. An idiot being eaten by a monster. (From two different panels on the page.)
So, Cloudflare is down this morning (whatever that is...) and it's screwing up the internet? Is that right? I'm noticing all kinds of errors and 404s on websites that are normally problem-free.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So, Cloudflare is down this morning (whatever that is...) and it's screwing up the internet? Is that right? I'm noticing all kinds of errors and 404s on websites that are normally problem-free.
Dear anyone trying to solicit Blambot via email or otherwise: Explaining that you're an expert in AI, and I should really consider hiring you to incorporate AI into Blambot...I'd like to explain to you where you can shove that suggestion.
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dear anyone trying to solicit Blambot via email or otherwise: Explaining that you're an expert in AI, and I should really consider hiring you to incorporate AI into Blambot...I'd like to explain to you where you can shove that suggestion.
My wife took me out for my birthday dinner to a restaurant in an 1880s Victorian home that has also been a mortuary in the past. Food was amazing. I fell in love with this staircase. (Yes, the place is haunted. I asked the staff.)
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My wife took me out for my birthday dinner to a restaurant in an 1880s Victorian home that has also been a mortuary in the past. Food was amazing. I fell in love with this staircase. (Yes, the place is haunted. I asked the staff.)