Illegitimates and their Logo

One of my first jobs in comics was lettering, and I still do a bunch of it. I letter Deadbeats for Claypool, Skyward for Action Lab, and now I'm lettering Illegitimates for IDW. The book is by Taran Killiam and Marc Andreykoand involves a cool spin on the James Bond archetype.

I also designed the logo for the book. Here it is…

I thought maybe you'd like to see some of the process of the creating that logo. The basic starting point I was given was to turn the double-L's into guns. I tried a few different variations on that before we locked in the final. I think they've all got some cool aspects to them. Click to see them embiggened.