i am having so much fun colouring the incredible art (and greyscale) of Rufus.
i just finished a double page spread from episode 06, featuring a school flashback with a teenage tank girl! i love this page so much i'd like to share it with you.
(and i even managed to secretly put some button from my band into it. sssshhh don't tell anyone)
enjoy!
now fast back to work.

wanna see a 8 year old boy wrestling bears?
sure you want:
check out
there's only one page online so far. but more will follow

http://yonkuma.com/

drawn by my pal Jorge F. Muñoz
a damm great upcoming artist! when i first saw some sketches of him i was so blown away by his unique style. he should be on any top ten artists list soon!

written by Josh Hechinger

YON KUMA (“Four Bears”) is an 88-page comic being serializedtwo-pages-a-week on the web (Monday-Wednesday, with special bonusmaterial on Friday).

can't wait to see more!
i hope you too!

cheers

Christian

here..s a short list of highlights of 2008 and things i am looking forward to:

2008:
-working with the bestest guy in the world: Rufus Dayglo
-getting first pro work published: Snaked and Tank Girl: Visions of Booga for IDW
-playing some great first shows with my band : "It's a Trap You Fucking Primate"
- Mike Mignola draws Hellboy again, sadly just a oneshot: YEAH
- Jason Pearson finally gets Body Bags: One Shot out: Double YEAH
-getting a wacom
-learning so much stuff from Rufus
-playing left4dead with friends
- friends from optimum wound comics publish  REX

Best to come 2009:

-Tank Girl: Skidmarks
-Recording with "It's a Trap You Fucking Primate" (hopefully soon)
-new Converge and Mastodon albums
-Watchmen movie

did i forgot something? maybe!

have a great new year, take care, stay punk!

Christian

my computer is still down. crap. will get it back later this day.now online via my new playstation portable.cool thingie.just typing is horrible annoying. wish me good luck with my computer

haven..t drawn for over a week. been busy playing SPORE. well i got to the center of the universe day before yesterday. time to go back to the drawing board.
still got some spare time until the new tank girl project, i will color,  starts.

since i already posted a teaser in my last blog entry i thought lets do it the other way round and show some rejected stuff. so, i did this page halfway thru and didn..t quite like how it turned out. didn..t have the impact and the larger then life attitude i wanted it to have.

like all the pages for this story, i did the black and white inks on brown toned paper. i did that some time ago for my webcomic DESTROY DYSTOPIA but now i am using some white out pen which works way better then blotty or watery  white ink.
so, i am just re-doing  the page and thought i..d share my crappy page.panel 3 was whitened in photoshop btw.
some notes. the referance for the page were the "enola gay", the little boy atom bomb and the mushroom cloud from hiroshima.
the story itself has nothing to do with it, but you may have guessed it, is about a bomb!

so, back to the drawing board. oh, amost forgot...
the page!

just got some days off from coloring and working!

it..s been quite long since i did some drawing myself (apart from coloring tankgirl). some quick sketches here and there, shirt design for my band!

i..ve been dragging a cool story idea for quite some time in my head and well, i started working on the short story this week. penciling, inking it on my new lightbox-table, scanning in, prining it out on tonal paper to do some highlighting with whiteout pen, scanning in again, coloring in photoshop.
just finished the second page.

the story itself is the visualisation of a new song i did with my band "its a trap you fucking primate". the lyrics of the song is the text of the story, so combining the two will make a new multimedial experience.

here..s a small peak at the main character and the style i am using. wanted to do in something similar i did in my webcomic "destroy dystopia".

more soon!

take cake!

so, here i am, back from a 2 week vacation in spain. a befriended couple, my girlfriend and me rented a cool small house with swimmingpool in andalousia. great beaches and cheesy sunsets. swimming in the atlantic. reading lovecraft and hellboy short stories. brilliant


me and my lovely girlfriend sabrina


assbombing the pool


cemetary for anchors

cool ruin at nearby beach


and well, the cheesy sunsets


Tank Girl - Visions of Booga 4 is out next week!
heres a small preview with the cover done by ash wood








another thing you also should check out is the band Septimus Orion

Septimus Orion feat. Former Drummer for the original incarnation of Celtic Frost Reed St. Mark and JR, Former Hardcore Front Man Vocalist from  Rosemary's Babies.
on their debut album "Caged" is a spoken word track called queers, read by its author Clifford Meth. I worked with Cliff on the Snaked miniseries, published by IDW. he approached me if i wanted to color the cover for the Septimus Orion Album, drawn by no other than legendary X-men Artist Dave Cockrum!
so, here..s they..re offical homepage - and here their myspace page
and here..s the look at the cover i was honored to color



thanx for dropping in!

christian

yesterday: spending hard earned cash at ikea. a truckload full of new furniture also needs to get to the 4th floor! my arms and my back hurt!

today: spent the whole day reconstruction my workplace.sorting out old crap i was hidding in old carboxes next to my old desk. getting rid of incredible amounts of dustballs. now my arms hurt even more from assembling all the ikea stuff!

room not finished yet. still lot of package and crap flying around!

so, this is what my new work place looks at the moment!



computer work place including new confortable chair. please note my fave tourposter of converg and major maxim and marv on electric chair action figures

lil overview:




new drawing desk. its an ikea vika blecket desk with built in see-thru sheet with light underneath. kinda poor man's lightbox.
at the right edge of the desk is also my new moleskine sketchbook. my first one. can..t wait to use it!
one the upper shelf: akira, clown, tetsuo, marv and natalie kassel action figures.

tomorrow: filling bookshelves

take care

i am just uploading the last page of Tank Girl: Visions of Booga.
wow, it was a fantastic trip. hard work, still pure enjoyment.

Issue 3 came out this week btw. so grab it while its still on the shelves

issue 4 includes my favorite pages from the whole series.
one is a double splash page spread with incredible awesome linework from rufus.the  two other pages that should get alan and rufus the award for best fighting sequence. can..t wait to see these ones on paper.

it will be a few days till i get the pages for our new project Pristeen 16 (also from Alan C. Martin and Rufus Dayglo, colors by me again). i will use these next days to experiment something in style to find something fitting the new series.
so, if you enjoyed Visions of Booga so far and want some crazy Sci-Fi action, go to your nearest comicshop and order Pristeen 16, published by IDW. it..s not to late!


more soon

here..s da covers Ruf (greatest guy on earth) Dayglo did so far.

enjoy

hello my friends,
first:the SNAKED tpb came out today,

wizard magazine says:

SNAKED (IDW Publishing): In this cleverly concocted political horror-thriller, Bill Timmons is born with scales and a latent ability for bloody outbursts. But when he makes it to the high-profile political scene, he finds it's his co-workers who are the real snakes. In fact, his straight-laced principles make him, according to one slithery colleague, "almost inhuman," setting up an analogy charged with the power of today's most popular politicians. After being framed, fired and cheated on by his wife, Timmons goes on a bloody rampage that jumps out in stark red against the book's dramatically dark and grimy palette. Snaked features sharp writing, a fun crude streak and an innovative plot encompassing a volatile backdrop of far-fetched, reality-based political intrigue you have to read to believe.Incredibly entertaining!

written by Clifford Meth, drawn by Rufus Dayglo and colored by me,

check it out

nd there's some preview pages from Tank Girl: visions of booga 3 over at chris ryall's blog.

brought to you by "creator Alan C Martin and drawn by Rufus Dayglo and Christian Krank (the best-named art team in comics)"

check them out here:
http://ryalltime. blogspot. com/2008/07/visons-quest. html

thanx for reading

christian