How to cut the text in Illustrator?

I am lettering my comic in Illustrator, and I'm pretty new to Illustrator.  How can I cut or obscure the text?  For example, if I have the lettering on a book that is partially shot on a shelf, or lettering on the side of a semi trailer, but it is blocked by an object in front of him.  How 'block' it with an invisible object, or slice, or something?

I realize that it involves probably change my text in a chart so that it is no longer editable.  No problem.  I just need to learn how do.  I don't know there's a great tutorials on it; I don't know how to find them because I don't know how it's called.  I thought it would be masking, but everything I tried had no effect.

Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT: I thought it might be useful I showed exactly the situation I have here.  I circled the two spots where I need to be able to edit the text.  As you can see on the yellow triangle, I was juggling with masks to try to understand this.

These four panels is arranged as cards to play, with the name of each participant and the suit of the card at the top and bottom.  The problem is that you map overlays another, so I need to be able to cut name Thaddeus of the Sultan on the left and the J (for Jack of hearts) on the right.

All the texts of four cards are on different layers, with works of art and the word balloons and text on layers separate as well.

masking problem.png

This is page 1 of the next metro Med, the Hospital of superhero show

Copyright Michael Hutchison

I THOUGHT ABOUT IT!  Trial and error, I just kept going through the possibilities until I found a combination that worked.  Thanks, Silkrooster, to show me the right path!

Here's what I did (just for someone else who finds this and needs the solution to a similar problem).

  1. I put my yellow triangle ON the part of the text I wanted to keep in this case, the curvature of the J and the symbol of the heart.
  2. I selected the triangle layer so the layer J/heart.
  3. In the window of transparency, I used the pop-up menu corner (I'm in CS4) to check "new opacity masks are clipping" and make sure that the "...» are reverse' option has not been verified.
  4. I chose to "make opacity mask".

That's all!  Ta - dah!

Thanks a lot for all your help!

(Apologies, it's really Silkrooster who had the right answer, but I am marking this as the correct answer just so that future people have a little more guidance step by step it spelling.)

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