Gaspar Saladino

Gaspar Saladino (born September 1, c. 1926, in Brooklyn, New York) is an award-winning letterer and logo designer who worked for over 50 years in the comic book industry, mostly for DC Comics. He has over 3,000 credits on the Grand Comics Database. Eventually Saladino went by one name, "Gaspar," which he wrote in his trademark calligraphy. Veteran award-winning comic book letterers Todd Klein, Tom Orzechowski, and Clem Robins all claim Saladino was the best letterer they ever saw.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Saladino did the titles, lettering, and sound effects for all DC Comics covers. For a period in the 1970s, he was also "page-one letterer" for many Marvel Comics books. Saladino is widely celebrated for the distinctive lettering work he did for DC's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Dave McKean), giving characters their own fonts, and lending the Joker's dialogue a wild, ink-spattered manic intensity.