Death Transit Tanager

A new sci-fi comic series from Eisner Award-winning creator Karl Kerschl

A young woman with a strange gift travels the galaxy to help lost souls find their way home.


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Episode One

Tanager Ray searches an alien-infested mining asteroid to help an old man find something he lost.

Episode Two

Progress: 7/20 Pages
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I'm working on a full-colour backup story that will be printed in the back of Death Transit Tanager issue 1. Subscribers can READ IT HERE as it progresses!

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Death Transit Tanager Blog Posts

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Tanager 3D Ship Model

How I use 3D models to help draw the Death Transit Tanager ship…

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Halftone Process in ClipStudio

My halftone process in ClipStudio! Always easy and always editable. I recorded an entire page to show you.

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New Short Story Page Speed-Draw

A black and white page from start to finish, including a lot of halftone pattern use, which Clip Studio makes very easy.

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New Short Story – Page Progress

I’m drawing a new webcomic! It’s sort of a cross between Metroid and Hellboy and I’m posting pages here as I finish them, exclusively for subscribers. When it’s done it’ll be free for everyone, but until then you can read it here as it unfolds.

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