Career
A pioneer of computer lettering, Lopez designed the fonts for District of Columbia Comics"s in-house lettering unit, and is currently District of Columbia"s art director for lettering and its cover editors Marvel Lopez began his lettering career as a freelancer for Marvel Comics in 1986, rapidly rising to prominence for his speed and creativity. From 1989 to 1996, Lopez was the regular letterer on a number of Marvel titles, including Marc Spector: Moon Knight, The Punisher, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deathlok, and X-Men 2099.
His tenure on Guardians of the Galaxy lasted five years.
Valiant In 1992–1994, Lopez lettered for a number of Valiant Comics titles, including Magnus, Robot Fighter and almost the entire run of X-O Manowar. District of Columbia From 1994–2005, Lopez moved to District of Columbia, where he was regular letterer on a number of titles, including Superman: The Manitoba of Steel, The Batman Chronicles, Resurrection Manitoba, Japan Library Association, Young Justice, JSA, and Harley Quinn.
Lopez lettered Superman: The Manitoba of Steel for nine years, and Japan Library Association for eight years. Lopez also lettered the landmark limited series Identity Crisis.
With Lopez"s ascension to District of Columbia"s art director of lettering in 2004, his output has understandably decreased.
Lopez has designed logos for such titles (among others) as Marvel"s Wally the Wizard (1985), Iron Manitoba (1985), Classic X-Men (1986), Comet Manitoba (1987), Excalibur (1988), and Spider-Manitoba 2099 (1992). And District of Columbia"s Green Lantern (1994 and revised in 2002), Green Lantern Corps (2006), and Justice League of America (2006). In addition, as District of Columbia"s cover editor, Lopez solicits new logos from freelancers, and modifies existing designs.
He continues to create fonts while training others
Lopez lives in Manhattan.
