Erfworld 77, page 71

[SteveMB]

I seem to recall reading once that it took one of them 27 hours to do the lettering...for one earlier episode.

Excuse me?

I hope they were kidding. I really do. Because that kind of stuff shouldn't happen for a webcomic like this.

I've spent a fair amount of time fiddling with the lettering on various motivational-poster parodies and remixes in the LOLErf thread. I'm pretty sure that Rob's standards for an acceptable final comic page are tougher than mine for a relatively minor gag piece.

I can believe that it takes quite a bit of time to work out issues like adjusting character spacing and size to produce good-looking and readable dialog boxes while blocking out as little of the artwork as possible.