Gaspar Saladino

Who is Gaspar Saladino?

Gaspar Saladino in is an American letterer and logo designer who worked for over 50 years in the comic book industry, mostly for DC Comics. Eventually Saladino went by one name, "Gaspar," which he wrote in his trademark calligraphy.

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 noted for the distinctive lettering work he did for DC's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, giving characters their own fonts, and lending the Joker's dialogue a wild, ink-spattered manic intensity.