Lettering guru Todd Klein discusses the 'new' Spirit logo on his excellent blog and looks at various versions of the famous masthead:
In my review of the Batman/Spirit comic and issues of The Spirit, I praised the logo, but didn't know who had created it. Two readers thought it was Rian Hughes, so I emailed him, and they were, indeed, correct. Rian writes:Rian goes on to provide some background info from Denis Kitchen, along with various takes on the logo.
Yes, the Spirit logo is mine. It's more of a "rationalisation" of one of Will's logos, the one that he came to think of as the definitive Spirit logo.
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