William Saburo Yoshida (, December 1921 - February 17, 2005) was a long time letterer for

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. He was sometimes credited as Bill Yosh or Saburo Yoshida. Born in the United States in 1921, Yoshida and his family were placed in an internment camp for the Japanese during

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after the signing of

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. In the post-war years, Yoshida was a guitarist and night club singer who also worked as a chef. While bowling in an all-Japanese league in New York City, one of his teammates was leading comics letterer

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. He learned comic book lettering from Oda and was hired in 1965 by Archie Comics, where he averaged 75 pages a week for 40 years for an approximate total of 156,000 pages. He lettered along with many other well-known Archie Comics talents, such as

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. He also freelanced on a variety of comic book stories, lettering many pages for

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and others.

Awards

Yoshida was twice nominated for a Will Eisner Award for Best Lettering, in 1996 and 1999.

References

External links

Comic Book Db: Bill Yoshida credits
1921 births 2005 deaths American people of Japanese descent Comic book letterers Japanese-American internees {{Comics-creator-stub