Comics Artists K
Bob Kane
The creator of Batman with Bill Finger who died in 1998.
• New York Times obituary
• Lambiek.net Tribute
• Mark Evanier's Obituary to Bob Kane
Gil Kane
Links welcome!
Gil Kane, the comic book artist who spent more than half a century sketching such memorable characters as the Atom, Green Lantern, the Hulk, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man, died in January 2000. He was 73. Kane, whose range extended to decorating stage sets and illustrating a comic book version of Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring Des Nibelungen."
Mychailo Kazybrid
Blog:
http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com
A regular cartoonist in Comics
International,
Mychallo has been involved in the cartoon and comic book industry for over
31 years, mainly producing artwork for various British companies and
publications including Matt & the Cat (pictured), Comic
Cuts, Transformers,
Sesame Street, Popples,
Dennis, Spider-Man
Weekly, The Daily
Howl,
The Bash St Kids, Minnie
The Minx, Bananaman,
Dandy and Beano Library
Books with experience including storyboard, advertising, and four years
producing cartoons for Yorkshire TV.
Chris Kemple
Official: www.redvengeance.com
Dave Kendall visit
Official
: www.rustybaby.com
Dave Kendall paints book covers adorning horror and dark
fantasy novels, he has also illustrated work for the comics 2000AD,
Warhammer and Event
Horizon, among others.
Ian Kennedy
• Interview on British Comics Art by Tony O'Donnell
• Interview on British Comics Art by Chris Weston
Highly
accomplished artist on many strips for DC Thomson and IPC including the
1980s Dan Dare. His aircraft work is without equal. Also worked on
Starblazer.
Jim Keefe
Official: www.keefestudios.com
Flash Gordon writer and artist. Among other things, this site has a superb section devoted to Flash Gordon.
Dave King
MySpace: www.myspace.com/davekingmyspace
Dave King has worked extensively in both Europe and L.A.,
as well as his native city of London. As writer and artist, he sold his first
long-running, professional comic strip at the tender age of sixteen, before
honing his abilities at the prestigious St. Martin's School of Art in Covent
Garden. Frustrated at the college's negative attitude toward cartooning, Dave
used his creative cunning to devise his own course along with a team of his
fellow students.
Early commissions saw him working in textile prints, particularly
for cartoon boxer shorts, until the bottom fell out of the market.
After being
chosen by Warner Bros. to attend their Looney Tunes Design Looniversity in
Paris, he worked as a scriptwriter and artist for comic books, magazines and
newspapers, working on titles such as Animaniacs,
Pinky And The Brain, Beetlejuice,
Dennis the Menace, Ren & Stimpy,
Rugrats, the Spice Girls, Tatler,
the Daily Star, the Daily
Mail and The Times, before
eventually moving into the animation industry.
He has worked with many of
the UK's leading animation houses, including Cosgrove Hall, Collingwood O'Hare,
Touchwood Animation and Passion Pictures on series, music promos and advertising.
His long association with Cartoon Network UK (which has seen him work on everything
from The Powerpuff Girls to Cow & Chicken by
way of Scooby Doo and Godzilla)
saw him move into the role of animation director, on their first ever in-house
produced series, V Birds.
He now works across the film, TV, advertising and
music industries as an animation director, art director, storyboard artist
and scriptwriter, for clients including the BBC, Nickelodeon and Red Bee Media.
He
is also a regular guest teacher for the animation course at Volda University
College in Norway, and in 2007 was invited to be a jury member for the Volda
Animation Festival, alongside Aardman animation director Dave Osmand and
Oscar-winning animation director Torill Kove.
He believes the Daleks are the
greatest design icon ever, finds it strange writing this biography in the
third person and waits for the world to discover his latent talent as a lounge
singer.
Rich King Illustration
Official: lindahome.freeuk.com/rich.king
Illustrator, Designer, Consultant, Trainer, Editor
and Photo-Journalist, Rich's credits include Fiesta,
GreyBike and Teazer.
Jack Kirby
• The
Jack Kirby Collector
Fantastic magazine about one
of the greats of the US comics industry. A must read if
you're a fan of his work.
• The
Kirby Graphics Gallery
Part of the Comics and Stories
web site devoted to International comics. Image heavy
but worth a visit!
Joe Kohl
Official: www.new1.com/jkohl
Joe Kohl has been a cartoonist and illustrator since 1973, with work
published in titles as diverse as Reader's Digest, National Enquirer,
Punch, Banker's Monthly and Penthouse. His work has also included books,
advertisements, greeting cards, book covers, billboards and much more.
If you happen to be a golfer, you may enjoy Joe's Lucky Pants and Other
Golf Myths. Many of these cartoons have just been released as a book with Evanston Publishing Co.
Joe Kubert
Official: www.kubertsworld.com
Active in all aspects of the
comic book profession for the past sixty years Joe Kubert
has received many international honors for his work. In
1976, he founded the highly regarded JOE KUBERT SCHOOL
OF CARTOON AND GRAPHIC ART, INC. Hundreds of his graduates
are currently professionals in the field.
In response to countless requests, Joe has created a new
series of Correspondence
Courses whose focus is specifically on comic book
art. Written, designed, illustrated and produced by Joe,
the courses detail every facet of comic book work in step-by-step
methodology, including 20 additional courses being developed.
These courses are for everyone, amateurs and professionals
alike.
After several queries about
postal comic art courses for would-be UK artists, I contacted
the Joe Kubert School to find out if his world famous
Correspondence Courses were available to people outside
the US. Joe Kubert kindly wrote back to tell me that his
famous comic art Correspondence Courses are open not just
to North Americans but also to residents of the UK. "In
fact, we have a tremendous amount of students participating
in our courses from all over the world!" he says.
"The cost of an initial course [as of May 2003],
complete with art supplies, is $325.
"After the purchase of the initial course, there
is a $50 reduction for each subsequent course because
subsequent courses do not include art supplies. Thus,
the first course you take is $325 and every subsequent
course is $275. There is also an additional shipping cost
of $51 for us to send the course package and to return
the 5 critiqued assignments to the UK.
"The videos are also available in the PAL format
(European version) for an additional $8. Otherwise, a
VHS video will be included in each course package at no
additional cost."
