Roxanne Starr

Roxanne Starr
Born	Paris, France
Nationality	American
Occupation	Graphic designer, Comic book letterer
Years active	1984-Present

Roxanne Starr is an American graphic designer and comic book letterer who was one of the original pioneers to bring computerized comic book fonts to the industry.

Roxanne Starr was born in Paris, France, and came to New York City at the age of two. Her art career started when she was only fourteen, when she took a summer job as a colorist for a textile design company. She later graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in art. She took graphic design at the School of Visual Arts, taking two years off to work as a traffic editor at The National Enquirer. Her first job out of school was as a graphic designer at a Madison Avenue ad agency.

In 1980, Starr moved to Atlanta and worked as a freelancer in the graphic design field there. She began lettering comics in 1982, initially with Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics.

At first, Starr hand-lettered, eventually creating fonts that imitated hand-lettering. By creating her own fonts, she allowed for more exploration as to what could be done with a computer. There were several independent comic titles at the time that employed computer lettering, but none as high-profile as Flaming Carrot.

In 1984, soon after Starr started working on Flaming Carrot, the book was picked up by Canadian-based publisher Aardvark-Vanaheim. Four years later, Starr became Flaming Carrot's editor when it was picked up by Dark Horse Comics.

By the early 1990s, Starr was freelancing as a comic book letterer while working a day job in the commercial magazine industry. As a commercial art director, she gave cover and interior editorial art assignments to comics artists like Dave Johnson, Craig Hamilton, and Michael Zulli.

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