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Roxanne Starr | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Graphic designer,Comic bookletterer |
| Years active | 1984-Present |
Roxanne Starr is an Americangraphic designer andcomic bookletterer.[1]
Roxanne Starr was born inParis,France to German parents, however was raised in the United States after moving toNew York City at the age of two. Her career in art began at age fourteen when she took a summer job as a colorist for a textile design company. She later graduated from theCity College of New York with a degree in Art and minor in Philosophy. Starr took commercial art courses at theSchool of Visual Arts, taking two years off to work as a Traffic Editor atTheNational Enquirer. Her first job after college was in advertising at aMadison Avenue agency.[2]
In 1980, Starr moved toAtlanta where she freelanced as a graphic designer.[2] In 1982, she began lettering comics, initially withBob Burden'sFlaming Carrot Comics.
At first, she hand-lettered her works, but eventually created fonts to imitate her style.[3]
In 1984, soon after Starr started working onFlaming Carrot, the book was picked up by Canadian-based publisherAardvark-Vanaheim.[4] Four years later, Starr becameFlaming Carrot'seditor when it was picked up byDark Horse Comics.[1]
By the early 1990s, Starr was freelancing as a comic book letterer while working a day job in the magazine industry. As a Commercial Art Director, she gave cover and interior editorial art assignments to comics artists likeDave Johnson,Craig Hamilton, andMichael Zulli.
In the early 1990s, Starr was assigned by editorPaul Jenkins to re-letter the first two issues ofAlan Moore andBill Sienkiewicz's ultimately unfinished projectBig Numbers — which was to be picked up byTundra Publishing — and continue on as the project letterer of the remaining issues.Big Numbers would halt with only two issues released commercially.
Starr did most of her professional lettering during the comics’ boom of the 1990s. In addition toFlaming Carrot Comics, titles she worked on included books published byMalibu Comics'Ultraverse imprint (1993–1995) andJames D. Hudnall'sESPers (1996–1997). The majority of her work was withCaliber Comics, letteringBrian Michael Bendis' creator-ownedJinx (1997) andJoe Pruett's anthology comic book seriesNegative Burn (1998).[1] Starr lettered a number of "The Alan Moore Songbook" stories inNegative Burn — stories written by Moore and illustrated by various artists.
Starr currently lives inAtlanta,Georgia, and still works with Bob Burden on his various creator-owned projects,[1] including his 2012 Flaming CarrotKickstarter campaign which raised $42,048.[5] In 2015, Stable Enterprises Press releasedStable Enterprises' first issue, "Sexy Enterprises", an illustrated novel written by Starr, with art by Timothy Paul.Sexy Enterprises is ta pseudo-autobiographical parody novel about the comics industry and the many freelance artists with whom Starr has worked.[6]
