Role: Hand lettering
Client: Bruguera
Year: 2025

Some projects arrive like an urgent letter, and others come back like a boomerang… This one was definitely the latter.

Penguin Random House entrusted me with something that, for any lover of comic art, feels like touching the sky: creating the lettering for the cover of Los 200 primeros casos de Mortadelo y Filemón (The First 200 Cases of Mortadelo and Filemón). The mission: to give the agents of the T.I.A. lettering worthy of their adventures.

The process seemed quick, the decisions agile. We had the lettering direction clear from the very beginning. It was approved, signed off, and sent to print. But, as in any good Mortadelo and Filemón story, there was a twist: the heirs of Francisco Ibáñez reviewed the design and decided they wanted a different approach.

So… full reverse! We had to revisit the project, rethink the composition, and redesign the original lettering to keep Ibáñez’s essence while adding my own touch. This wasn’t just about “changing the font”: it was about creating a title that worked as a visual wink to an entire generation of readers—honoring the legacy while breathing new life into it.

The final result is classic lettering, infused with all of Ibáñez’s personality but modernized to fit perfectly on a cover that catches the eye of every Mortadelo and Filemón fan.

Sometimes, “back-and-forth” projects are the ones that teach you the most. This one reminded me that lettering, just like comics, thrives on unexpected twists… and that, if you get them right, those twists can become your best work.