I wish I had more details on his life and death. All I know is that Bill Yoshida, the longtime comic book letterer, passed away last week. He began lettering comics in the late sixties and became the main letterer for Archie Comics around 1980. Occasionally credited as "Bill Yosh" or "Saburo Yoshida," his handiwork had a lot to do with the look and feel of that company's books ever since, appearing on almost every cover and something like 90% of the interior stories, plus the Archie newspaper strip. He was said to be dedicated and dependable, which you'd have to be in order to letter that many comic books over the years.