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San Diego!

karl — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:27:05 +0000

Hi, everyone!
Just a quick update to let you know what I’m doing at the San Diego Comic-Con this week! The answer is: not much. I don’t have a table at the show, so I won’t be selling anything or doing scheduled signings. But I’m on a couple of panels that might interest you!

The first is the Assassins Creed: Behind the Brotherhood panel, on Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 in Room 7AB. I’ll be there with Cameron Stewart, talking about our new Assassin’s Creed comic and revealing more images and story information!

And after that, on Sunday, I’m on the Archaia: All-Ages panel talking about making comics for, well, readers of all ages. I’ll be sharing the stage with David Petersen, Jeremy Bastian and Katie Cook! Check it out in Room 3 between 2:30 and 3:30.

Aside from that, I’ll just be wandering the show floor (and the streets of San Diego) for the week, so if you see me, stop and say hello!

The Abominable Charles Christopher Book!

karl — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:10:29 +0000

I’m proud to officially announce Book One of The Abominable Charles Christopher, collecting Chapter One of the Eisner-nominated webcomic.

Wrapped in an embossed, faux suede hardcover, this 144-page tome collects all of the comics from the first two years of the series, along with lots of additional illustrations and a 40″ gatefold at the end of the book, featuring an enormous pencil rendering of the key players, all in one scene.
Inside the front cover is a “This book belongs to” page, so you can personalize it for yourself or as a gift to loved ones. I’ve also included a space for sketches, so if you meet me at a show, I can further personalize your book with a one-of-a-kind, original drawing.

I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting to announce this. It’s the treatment of the book I want for myself, and it’s been a tremendous amount of work to put together. The files are going to the printer today, so it looks like I’ll be officially launching at TCAF on May 8-10! If you’re going to be in Toronto that weekend, be sure to come by and see me for your own signed copy! And tell your friends! I’m self-publishing this thing, and I can use all the help I can get. :)

Buy it HERE!

Abominable Print

karl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:23 +0000

While building the new TX Store and the new version of the Abominable site, I started toying with ideas for another shirt design. What I came up with was this image. It was done in Adobe Illustrator as an experiment – I wanted to see if Charles Christopher and the rest of the gang could be translated in different art styles while maintaining their personalities. Turns out they can!

I wasn’t crazy about the way it looked on a shirt, though, so I decided to add some more detail and textures in Photoshop and produce the image as a fine art print – something I plan to do more of in the future.

Here’s a closer look at the full piece, as well as some zoom-ins so you can see the detailing in the textures. These are giclée printed on nice, thick 13″x19″ art paper. I’m very happy with them.

Spider-Man

karl — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:30:00 +0000

I’m doing four covers for the relaunch of Marvel’s new ‘Marvel Kids’ line, featuring Spider-Man! This is fun for a few reasons: first, I’ve never really had an opportunity to draw Spidey professionally (and along with Batman, he’s one of the earliest characters I can remember obsessing over as a child), and second, it’s a reboot of sorts, which means that Peter Parker is an awkward, gangly high school teenager again, and that, to me, is an integral part of the character.
So here’s the first one!
(The next one is full of ninjas – another childhood dream fulfilled)

Inks by Serge LaPointe (of course) and colours by Nadine Thomas, our new studiomate!

Green Lantern (For Real)

karl — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:36:07 +0000

We do a secret-santa sort of thing every Christmas and I got my cousin Kirby, who is a huge Green Lantern fan, so I did this piece and framed it for him. It occurred to me later that he probably would have preferred a Kyle Rayner drawing, but I’m a Hal Jordan man all the way.
Sorry, Kirb.

Green Lantern Sketches

karl — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:22:45 +0000

This is what happens when people ask me for sketches of Green Lantern at conventions and signings. Usually they walk away slightly disappointed, but I think these are totally legit! There are WAY weirder characters in the Green Lantern Corps than bears and cats.
By the way, if DC ever wants to do a Green Lanternimals book, I’m in. I don’t need time to think about it.

TX Euro-Tour 2009

karl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:48:49 +0000

I’ll be travelling around Europe with fellow TX pals Ramón Pérez and Cameron Stewart for the next month, appearing at various comics festivals and shops. If you’re nearby and can make it to any of the following events, I’d love to see you!

October 23-25
Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada na Amadora (FIBDA)
Amadora, Portugal

October 28
Kingpin Books
Lisbon, Portugal

October 31-November 1
Lille Comics Festival
Lille, France

November 2
Album Librarie
Paris, France

November 7-8
La Fete De La BD
Andennes, Belgium

November 11
Alastor Milano Fumetto
Milan, Italy

November 12
Alastor Novara
Novara, Italy

November 15
Forbidden Planet
Dublin, Ireland

November 16
Comica – ICA Nash Room 7:30pm
London, England

November 19
Orbital Comics
London, England

November 21-22
Thoughtbubble Festival
Leeds, England

More details as I get ‘em!

Carrie. Carrie Kelley. Robin.

karl — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:51 +0000

I love Frank Miller’s ‘Dark Knight Returns’. It was one of the biggest influences on my artistic growth, along with a LOT of Bill Sienkiewicz and Mike Mignola. This piece is a pin-up I did for the Lille Comics Festival I’m attending this fall. They requested a Batman illustration to use as an exclusive print for the show.
I wanted to evoke Lynn Varley’s washed-out palette so I cranked down the saturation wherever possible – an exception being Robin’s costume. I think brighter colours illustrate her enthusiasm against Batman’s gray grumpiness.

Also, Carrie Kelley is the coolest Robin ever.

FanExpo Toronto

karl — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:50:47 +0000

The Transmission X creators* will be special guests at the upcoming Toronto FANEXPO being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on August 28-30th. Transmission X will be located in the Special Guests area.

To get things started TX Comics will be hosting the following panel on webcomics on Friday at 5PM in room 713A:

Webcomics 101
Presented by TX Comics

Ever wanted to create your own comic, but don’t know where to begin? The popularity of digital comics is exploding, and the web is destined to become a major entertainment medium. Join the creators of the critically acclaimed webcomics collective TX Comics for an informative, interactive, and lively discussion of the advantages of creating a webcomic and publishing to the world wide web for fun and profit. Topics include the benefits of self-publishing on the web, promoting your webcomic, tips and tricks, and technical advice from the pros!

Show hours are as follows:
Friday: 4PM – 9PM**
Saturday: 10AM – 7PM
Sunday: 11AM – 6PM

** Advance pass members can gain access to the show on Friday at 2pm.

* Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl, Ramón Pérez, Andy Belanger, Scott Hepburn, Brian McLachlan, Michael Cho, and Eric Vedder, along with two new creators joining the TX collective.

This Wednesday!

karl — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:00:47 +0000

Yikes! The first issue of Wednesday Comics hits the shelves this week! For those of you who don’t know, it’s a weekly comic in the style of the old Sunday newspaper strips – large format, colourful comics on a gigantic page!
So for the next twelve weeks, you can follow the adventures of DC’s classic heroes written and drawn by some of the industry’s most talented creators (and me).
I’m drawing and co-writing (with Brenden Fletcher) a Flash story, starring the one and only Barry Allen and a certain, super-intelligent gorilla…

Pick it up on Wednesday and let me know what you think!