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Update 4/24/08

A couple new pieces in the main gallery. Two illustrations of baseball pitchers, CC Sabathia and Brandon Webb. Both are for FORBES magazine. Next a T-Shirt illustration for this years 2old2play.com LAN in Chicago. Lots of beer and video, should be a blast.

On the NEWS front it looks like I will be contributing to Accent UK 's next anthology book, WESTERN. Dont miss there previous anthology ZOMBIES and their soon to be released ROBOTS anthology. Both can be ordered through Diamond Comics Previews or requested at your nearest comic shop. You can check out more about Accent UK and their books at accentukcomics.com

Update 2/05/08

I finally put together a gallery of some of the vector based art I have created for GAMEALMIGHTY.COM the video game review web site. Just click the heroes chest above, or you can get there via the commercial gallery area.

KM

Update 1/18/08

You can catch a brief profile of my process and my work in this months issue of ImagineFX Magazine. Its an international Sci-Fi and Fantasy Illustration magazine. Visit their online home here. Its a fun and informative magazine and whether your looking for how to tips or just appreciate beautiful art, its well worth the coin.

KM

Update 1/01/08

Big New Years update in the Comic Gallery.


Just finished posting up 3 new sequential based works. Soloist™ is a short preview book that is the basis for a much bigger story. Little Red™ is the first 6 pages of a new twist on the famous children's story Little Red Riding Hood. Tales of The Dark Knight Spartan, is the first installment in an on going single panel sequential story Im doing out of my love of all things Halo, Batman and Spacegirl. Check out the gallery to get a few more details and to see the work.

KM

Update 11/29/07

5 new images in the Main Gallery.

All five are from a program I just finished Illustrating for Ryan Partnership and their client Englert Metal Manufacturing. Its a fun and cool Super-Hero Ad campaign, based around their Heroic mascot METAL MAN. The ads spotlight the heroes mission to offer the Economical and Ecological rewards of metal as an alternative to more dirty and costly traditional materials.

Update 10/08/07

Recently wrapped up a fun project creating a cover and
3 interior illustrations for a young teens adventure book, called John Fatsramp And The Dakota 3000 Challenge. Its a great story in the Tom Swift tradition with a contemproary sci fi updating. Cool stuff ! You can check out my contributions to the book over in the Main Gallery. You can check out the book and pick up a copy over at Amazon.com.

Well the site has been way over due for an update.
So I have cleaned things up a bit, changed the headers and navagation a little and added a video game gallery.
I have been creating allot of game oriented art lately and it seemed to make sense that it have its own gallery. Im a big fan of the Halo series and play quite regularly. So be sure to take a peek at the Halo gallery within the Games area. Master Chief and his Needler gun can take you there right now.

Entertainment and Toy manufcturing Businesses. If you want to see what my spread looks like click the thumb nail below.Also visit th PLAY site where I have a 20 image online portfolio.

I recently attended the NY Comic Con at the Javits Center. It was excellent and a decent Con In NY has been missing for over 15 years. To get ready I updated a number of images. I hope you will check out these revised works by visiting the Main gallery or clicking the thumbs below.
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KM

Update 1/23/06

A detailed interview of my working process and some background about me was recently posted on both the Bungie.net news front page as well as on the front page of 2OLD2PLAY.com Recently, I did a piece based on Halo the Video Game, The interview details how the piece was created, gives links to a gallery of preliminary works for the piece and at the end there are free desktop images created using the final image. Check it out!
The 2OLD2PLAY.com article
The Bungie.net news article

KM