Born on October 26, 1962, Jack Morelli — full name John Morelli — is an American comic book letterer, writer, and logo designer whose career spans more than four decades and over a thousand individual issues. He entered the industry as a staff letterer at Marvel during the 1980s, where colleagues gave him the nickname "Squid," a nod to a previous stint working on a fishing boat. His lettering hand proved influential enough that artist and writer John Byrne used it as the basis for his own personal computer font.
At Marvel, Morelli also moved into editorial and writing, contributing to titles such as *Warlock and the Infinity Watch*. His most notable scripting credit came with a 1998 *Peter Parker* annual featuring Elektra, in which he introduced the supervillain Silencer. Later, his most sustained body of work came at Archie Comics, where titles including *Archie*, *Betty and Veronica*, and *Afterlife with Archie* kept him consistently busy. That last series earned him the 2015 Harvey Award for Best Letterer.
Beyond comics, Morelli co-authored *Heroes of the Negro Leagues* (2007) with Mark Chiarello, a history of Black baseball published by Abrams that Amazon.com ranked as the second-best sports book of that year. He has also done work for DC Comics, and his lettering and logo design contributions remain a quiet but durable thread running through a substantial portion of mainstream American comics publishing.
