www.kylestrahm.com

2012-01-03T19:32:00.002-06:00

A bi-yearly Christmas tradition, Cashew Kerry is a grotesque effigy of my cashew-loving father. This year's incarnation speaks from a pre-recorded sound box and lurks in pile of cashews. At some point, I'll link to a video of Cashew Kerry speaking.

CASHEW KERRY 2011:

2011-12-21T22:09:00.001-06:00

Officer Downe: Bigger, Better Bastard Edition is now available is stores from Image Comics. I contributed a pinup. Go out and get this book!

2011-12-10T08:00:00.000-06:00

2011-12-08T08:00:00.002-06:00

Photographic evidence that Zomnibus Volume 2 (collecting We Will Bury You 1-4) is indeed finally in stores.

2011-12-07T08:00:00.000-06:00

2011-12-06T08:00:00.001-06:00

I was sent this photo of Grant the baby. He loves Hack/Slash #5!

2011-12-05T08:00:00.001-06:00

This is me at Planet Comicon. I believe I'm drawing this sketch.

2011-12-04T08:00:00.000-06:00

These cookies were baked by Little Lulu's Confections and decorated by local Kansas City comic creators at last year's Planet Comicon.

From left to right, the cookies were decorated by me, Jason Aaron, Kevin Mellon, Nathan Fox and Damont Jordan.

2011-12-03T08:00:00.001-06:00

While looking through some old folders, I found a 2006 sketch of the Mothman design I used in Return to Point Pleasant. I thought it would be fun to do a new sketch of the same character. Both are posted below.

2006:

2011:

2011-12-02T08:00:00.000-06:00

2011-12-01T08:00:00.000-06:00

This is a M.O.D.O.K. sketch I did for William of Elite Comics. To commission a sketch, please email me here.

2011-11-30T08:00:00.002-06:00

On the left is a digital sketch used for the Officer Downe pinup I posted earlier. On the right are the finished inks. When working on a drawing, I usually print a digital sketch, tighten it up with pencil, then add ink. Sometimes I scan the pencils, but I skipped that step here.

2011-11-29T08:00:00.000-06:00

2011-11-28T08:00:00.002-06:00

Here are two of the retro-style, Fletcher Hanks "Fantomah" pages we did for a four-page flashback in Hack/Slash #5. Mark Englert on colors and Crank on letters!

Hack/Slash #5 will be reprinted in the upcoming Hack/Slash Vol. 10: Dead Celebrities tpb, available for pre-order from Image.

2011-11-27T08:00:00.004-06:00

Paul Bludgeon was a colossal robotic lumberjack who showed up in Hack/Slash #5. Here's a design sketch:

2011-11-26T08:00:00.002-06:00

A couple of digital sketches of Tim Seeley's characters Jack Kraken and XIII:

2011-11-25T08:00:00.005-06:00

A Pinhead design I did for something:

2011-11-24T08:00:00.000-06:00

Sometimes I'll scan drawings while I'm in the process of inking them to get a feel for how they'll look in high contrast. I found this half-inked scan of a Hellraiser Cenobite on my computer and placed it next to the finished version.

2011-11-23T08:00:00.001-06:00

2011-11-22T08:00:00.001-06:00

Here's a panel from the crazy retro-style backup strip Tim Seeley, Brent Engstrom and I did for The Occultist #1 from Dark Horse.

2011-11-21T08:00:00.004-06:00

Download Hack/Slash: Too Cute as a digital CBR file right here, for free. Just click the image below or click here! In case you're unfimiliar with CBR readers, a PDF is included.

Too Cute was originally published in Hack/Slash Trailers 2 by Image Comics.

Script: Dennis Hopeless
Art: Kyle Strahm
Color: Buster Moody
Letters: Crank!
Hack/Slash created by Tim Seeley. All content © and TM.

2011-11-20T08:00:00.002-06:00

A couple of weeks ago, Comics Alliance posted a kind article about my art: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/10/27/kyle-strahm-art/

2011-11-19T08:00:00.001-06:00

The Law.

2011-11-18T08:00:00.002-06:00

Hack/Slash Volume 10: Dead Celebrities has been solicited for February from Image Comics. It's available for pre-order at your local comic shop. I drew Hack/Slash #5, which is collected in the book. Cover by Rodin Esquejo.

HACK/SLASH, VOL. 10 TP: DEAD CELEBRITIES
story TIM SEELEY & BENITO CERENO
art by DAN LEISTER, ARIEL ZUCKER-BRULL & KYLE STRAHM
cover by RODIN ESQUEJO
FEBRUARY 8
160 PAGES / FC / T+
$16.99
Cassie and Vlad face off against a celebrity killer and their star struck fans, an all-powerful goddess, and Victor Crowley, star of the HATCHET film series! Meanwhile, intrepid former teen detective, Cat Curio makes her play to join the crew.
Collects HACK/SLASH #5-8 and HACK/SLASH ANNUAL 3: HATCHET/SLASH

2011-11-17T08:00:00.000-06:00

This is the line art for the LOBO INC mock cover I did for the "DC FIFTY TOO" project. This is what I sent off to Mark Englert to color. Crank designed the logo. Scroll down the blog for the colored version.

2011-11-16T08:00:00.005-06:00

My buddy Andy interviewed me at the New York Comicon for SciFi4me.com. We don't really say much.

2011-11-15T08:00:00.000-06:00

I was on the Crankcast a couple of times in the last few months.

In June, I was on with my buddy Dennis Hopeless. Listen here.

In September, I was on with Dennis and Tommy Patterson. Listen here.

Next time I'm on, I'll talk about this guy:

2011-11-14T08:00:00.000-06:00

I drew a backup story in Screamland #3 from Image Comics. I have a stack of them, so hit me up at a convention sometime!

2011-11-13T08:00:00.002-06:00

The ZOMNIBUS Volume 2 is finally available. It reprints a handful of zombie stories including We Will Bury You by Brea Grant, Zane Austin Grant, Zac Atkinson and me.

Here it is on Amazon: ZOMNIBUS Vol. 2

2011-11-12T12:59:00.002-06:00

A while back, I did a cover for the "DC Fifty Too" blog project. The blog posted several mock covers a week by over 52 comic book artists. Each cover presented a creator's vision of a DC Comics character who was not included in DC's "New 52" relaunch.

I chose Lobo and with the help of colorist Mark Englert and letterer Crank, we gave it our best shot. I'll post the black and white version sometime in the future.

View a larger resolution image here: LARGER IMAGE

Visit our page from the DC FIFTY TOO project here: http://dcfifty-too.blogspot.com

2011-11-11T18:33:00.004-06:00

Tim Seeley, Mark Englert, Chris Crank and I did a fun bonus strip in the back of The Occultist in the same retro style we used on part of Hack/Slash #5. The Occultist #1 is in stores now from Dark Horse Comics!

2011-10-27T11:20:00.001-05:00

Here's that Officer Downe pinup with color by Mark Englert:

2011-09-30T10:23:00.004-05:00

I did a pinup for my buddy Chris' book OFFICER DOWNE: BIGGER BETTER BASTARD EDITION. Here are the inks. Mark Englert colored them and I'll post that next week!

2011-09-22T09:24:00.000-05:00

2011-09-15T01:22:00.003-05:00

Some drawings I've done in the past few months:

Cenobytes Chatterer and DeepThroat

Character design: "The Relic"

Goggle Doctor:

2011-06-21T23:05:00.003-05:00

Be sure to pick up Hack/Slash #5! It's in stores today!

In stores this week, 6/22/11 from Image Comics!

Hack/Slash #5

story TIM SEELEY
art KYLE STRAHM
cover A JENNY FRISON
cover B RODIN ESQUEJO
$3.50

Guest-artist Kyle Strahm steps in as the skull-faced mystery woman Fantomah comes to Cassie and Vlad for help. But, what could a super powerful goddess, known for her horrible (yet creative) methods of tormenting evil doers, need with a teenage girl and a mutant with a machete?

Read the five-page preview:
www.hackslashinc.com

2011-05-05T03:00:00.001-05:00

2011-04-27T04:01:00.001-05:00

Some figure work from Hack/Slash #5:

2011-04-13T13:40:00.000-05:00

Fantomah, the mystery woman of the jungle from Hack/Slash #5!

2011-03-30T01:07:00.003-05:00

Hack/Slash #5 has been solicited for June from Image Comics. Tim Seeley will be writing the book and I'll be stepping in as a guest artist for this issue. Covers by Jenny Frison and Rodin Esquejo.

story TIM SEELEY
art KYLE STRAHM
cover A JENNY FRISON
cover B RODIN ESQUEJO
JUNE 8
32 PAGES / FC
IMAGE COMICS
$3.50

Guest-artist Kyle Strahm steps in as the skull-faced mystery woman Fantomah comes to Cassie and Vlad for help. But, what could a super powerful goddess, known for her horrible (yet creative) methods of tormenting evil doers, need with a teenage girl and a mutant with a machete?

2011-02-02T15:37:00.003-06:00

IG-88 from The Empire Strikes Back:

2010-11-24T10:45:00.002-06:00

Amory Wars #6 is out today! I penciled several of the pages. Inks are by the series' regular artist, Chris Burnham and colors are by Zac Atkinson.

2010-11-23T11:43:00.003-06:00

CBR has a preview of Amory Wars #6!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=7050&disp=table

2010-11-17T00:08:00.000-06:00

Hack/Slash Trailers Part 2 is out today!

Dennis Hopeless, Buster Moody, and I provided one of the thirteen stories included in this anthology from Image Comics. All proceeds will go toward paying artists who were previously stiffed. Buy a copy to support Tim Seeley and Hack/Slash!

Here's a link for a nine-page preview of the book:

http://www.tfaw.com/blog/2010/11/15/exclusive-9-page-preview-of-hackslash-trailers-part-2/?qt=tw_101115_Hack

For the release, I'll be at Elite Comics from 11-7 with fellow contributors B Clay Moore, Kevin Mellon, and Buster Moody.

Elite Comics
11842 Quivira
Overland Park, KS

2010-11-16T11:03:00.004-06:00

Hey, I was on Crankcast last week with Dennis Hopeless:

http://crankcast.net/2010/11/crankcast-week-266-20101110/

We ramble about a lot of things, including kids playing Batman and Hack/Slash Trailers Part 2 which is out this week from Image Comics!

Here's an inked page from our story, "Too Cute":

2010-10-29T16:27:00.002-05:00

Saturday, October 30th I'll be at Elite Comics for The Elite Halloween Bash. Info below the image:

Join us at Elite Comics on Saturday, October 30th for the Elite Comics Halloween Bash. We'll be featuring free comic books, a costume contest, a pumpkin carving demonstration, and costumed heroes galore. Bring the kids to meet comic book creators and get their pictures taken with the likes of Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Spider-man.

There will be a huge store-wide sale, where everything is discounted, excluding the dogs.

Featured appearances by:
-Jason Aaron (Writer of Scalped, Wolverine)
-Arie Monroe (Pin-up artist)
-Kyle Strahm (Artist on We Will Bury You)
-Kevin Mellon (Artist on Deadline and Suicide Sisters)
-Damont Jordan (Pin-up Artist)
-David Matheny (Director of My Stepdad's a Freakin' Vampire)
-Seth Peck (Writer of Sorrow, Deadline, The Boxer)
-Nathan Fox (Artist on Fluorescent Black)
-Darryl Woods (Pin-up Artist)
-Little Lulu's Cupcakes (Self-explanatory)
-Steve Daniels (Artist on Dark Hopper)
-Rudy Garcia (Sculptor of statues and pumpkins)

Be sure to tell all your friends and share the info through Facebook and Twitter. Hope to see you there!

Elite Comics
11842 Quivira
Overland Park, KS

2010-10-18T08:37:00.002-05:00

A Batman sketch I did at the New York show. I'll try to post a scan later!

And from our signing at the IDW booth:

2010-10-17T10:20:00.002-05:00

Zane Austin Grant, me, and Brea Grant at our singning at the IDW Booth.

2010-10-15T11:35:00.002-05:00

I just returned from the New York Comic Con where I had a great time. I'll try to post some images over the next few days.

Zane and I were asked to do a sketch for the Comics News Insider raffle at the show and we came up with this Judge Dredd piece. Zane wrote the limerick. I did the art. Whoever won this, I'd love to get a scan of it to replace the phone photo I took:

2010-09-27T20:56:00.000-05:00

Nom nom nom nom

2010-09-25T16:30:00.000-05:00

I'll be the guest at the KC Fan Con on Sunday!

2010-09-20T16:29:00.002-05:00

Cassie Hack in Buster Moody Color:

2010-09-17T01:44:00.002-05:00

Here's a Modulok you don't see every day.

2010-09-14T23:52:00.000-05:00

July 4th, 2010:

2010-09-13T23:28:00.000-05:00

2010-09-12T23:45:00.000-05:00

Some digital pencils craziness:

2010-09-11T22:45:00.001-05:00

Ugh, I missed updating yesterday due to the Art Show!

Here's a drawing of a HOB:

2010-09-09T19:28:00.002-05:00

More CLYDE'S HOT DATE:

2010-09-08T22:28:00.003-05:00

CLYDE'S HOT DATE is fully anaglyphed. Come take a look this Friday!

2010-09-07T12:06:00.002-05:00

Another crop from my Mantik Manifesto image (now in #3D!):

2010-09-06T18:15:00.003-05:00

Here's a small section of the piece I did for the "Mantik Manifesto" show that opens this Friday:

2010-09-05T23:38:00.000-05:00

Dennis Hopeless put an image from our Hack/Slash story up on his blog. Colors by Buster Moody. Check it out!

2010-09-04T15:20:00.003-05:00

The digital rough pencils for a panel from Hack/Slash. I print these out, do some tightening up with a real pencil, then ink the art.

2010-09-03T20:25:00.001-05:00

Hackin' and a'Slashin'.

2010-09-02T01:14:00.001-05:00

Brea with her copy of the We Will Bury You trade released yesterday:

Brea and Zane talk We Will Bury You at the San Diego Comic Con:

2010-09-01T09:05:00.004-05:00

I am now accepting commissions!

$40 SKETCH
One character full body or headshot, black and white, inked on 9" x 12" bristol

$100 Illustration
One character, full-body or headshot, black and white, inked on 11" x 17" bristol. These pieces are larger and more detailed.

$200 Illustration
Full illustration with background and up to three detailed characters. Black and white, inked on 11" x 17" bristol.

Additional shipping charges will apply.

The wait for your piece will be from 1 to 3 months.

For inquiries about more detailed pieces, please email me.

I can be contacted here.

Thank you!

2010-09-01T09:02:00.001-05:00

Today, the We Will Bury You trade paperback hits stores! I'll be at Elite Comics from 11am until 6 pm signing books and doing commissions!

Elite Comics
(913) 345-9910
11842 Quivira Rd
Overland Park, KS 66210

2010-08-31T15:56:00.002-05:00

A couple more Hack/Slash images:

2010-08-30T20:19:00.000-05:00

Buster moody colors well.

2010-08-29T11:50:00.003-05:00

I'm having a lot of fun with Hack/Slash. Here's a pic of a slasher who meets his end early on:

2010-08-28T23:30:00.002-05:00

Wednesday, September 1st, the We Will Bury You trade paperback hits stores! I'll be at Elite Comics signing books and doing commissions! I'll have the times up here soon.

Elite Comics
(913) 345-9910
11842 Quivira Rd
Overland Park, KS 66210

2010-08-27T08:38:00.004-05:00

This is the Cassie Hack design for Dennis Hopeless's and my story in Hack/Slash Trailers 2!

And today, Comicidal pays tribute to Cassie Hack: http://www.comicidal.net/

2010-08-26T10:45:00.002-05:00

We Will Bury You #4 is now available for download on the Sony PSP!
Click here or on the image!

2010-08-25T18:13:00.001-05:00

MODULOK.

2010-08-24T13:38:00.005-05:00

A story I'm working on with Dennis Hopeless and Buster Moody will be in this Hack/Slash anthology. It's now available for pre-order now from Image Comics!

HACK/SLASH: TRAILERS PART 2
story VARIOUS
art VARIOUS
cover TIM SEELEY & NEI RUFFINO

NOVEMBER 17
64 PAGES / FC
$6.99

An all-star cast of comic creators donates ALL-NEW short tales of comicdom's favorite slasher killers, and all of the proceeds go toward paying off previously stiffed artists! SCOTT ALLIE, J. TORRES, B. CLAY MOORE, GAIL SIMONE, TIM SEELEY and many others unite to tell HACK/SLASH stories—THEIR WAY—in a stand-alone volume that will never be collected in trade!

Some Influences 2

2010-08-23T10:49:00.006-05:00

A lot of us have been filling out Fox-Orian's Influences Map. You can find the template here.

Anyway, here's mine! Click it to open a larger version.

2010-08-22T21:50:00.001-05:00

Some design sketches for We Will Bury You. One of these is in the trade paperback that comes out September 1st, but the other probably won't show up anywhere else.

2010-08-21T13:46:00.001-05:00

The flyer is available for download at the KC Fan Con site:

And I'll be in this show September 10th!

2010-08-20T00:58:00.002-05:00

Matt's sketch.

2010-08-19T16:35:00.002-05:00

A Tusken Raider commission for Link. It was lots of fun.

2010-08-18T16:20:00.002-05:00

James' sketch.

2010-08-17T02:39:00.001-05:00

Kit's sketch.

2010-08-16T17:36:00.001-05:00

Tom's sketch.

2010-08-16T17:34:00.002-05:00

I'll be the guest at the KC Fan Con September 26th at the Plaza Hotel!

http://kcfancon.com/

2010-08-15T16:23:00.003-05:00

The first three issues of We Will Bury You are still available to download on Sony PSP and they include audio commentary by Brea and Zane! Just visit the PSP website here.

2010-08-14T17:32:00.001-05:00

2010-08-13T01:54:00.002-05:00

::Click here to see more con sketches from the past!::

Back in May, I drove up to the Spring Con in Minneapolis with Kevin Mellon, Dennis Hopeless, and Aaron Gillespie where I did a handful of sketches. Below are some photos!

Sketching Judge Dredd:

Sketching Vader:

The Amish horse we saw tied to the gas station sign:

My set-up with an awesome Batman sketch:

And here's that sketch again.
(It's for sale for 40 USD! Contact me here!)

2010-08-12T01:39:00.002-05:00

I've been doing further design sketches for the story I'm working on with Hopeless.

2010-08-11T08:33:00.002-05:00

Here are a couple of digital sketches of frightened children. The first was from a penciled page in We Will Bury You #2 that changed before inks. The second is a hardy boys/ghosthunter thing I was asked to do.

2010-08-10T12:24:00.001-05:00

This is a piece I did for a submission a few years ago. The project didn't really go anywhere while I was talking with them. The book did finally get off the ground with another artist and the first issue came out the same week as We Will Bury You #1.

2010-08-09T02:33:00.008-05:00

I initially posted this over on the Tim Sale board.

BISHOCK - PROCESS DESCRIPTION

I did this piece as part of a submission for a Bioshock comic. The project never happened and the book won't be coming out at that company anymore.

Anyway, They wanted Big Daddy from the game and an Art Deco element in the background. There's also a little creepy girl that rides him around. My design is based on Internet research and screenshots since I haven't played the game. I started with a digital sketch done in Photoshop 7.0 with my BAMBOO FUN® Wacom Tablet.

Here's the digital prelim:

Then I changed that into a blue duotone image in photoshop and printed it out on 11"x17" comic board. I penciled over the blue-line sketch, tweaking some things and tightening it up, then I started inking.
I only had a day to do the pencils and inks because of another deadline, so I only got so far before I had to resort to going digital.

I prefer to do everything on a board so I can have it in tactile form, but sometimes I have to do things digitally. On this one I ran out of time and had to go to the computer.

I used a 102 nib with a crow quill, black higgins water-proof ink, and maybe some microns. I used a winsor-newton series 7 #2 for the tattered decco elements.

This is me inking the piece during the in-store signing I did at Hurley's Heores on the day We Will Bury You #1 was released.

So this is how the piece looked when I scanned it. You can see the blue under-drawing and some of the loose pencils:

When I do something on paper or on a board, I always go over it with some kind of white pigment to make little changes and fix mistakes. This allows me to not be so spot-on with the pencils and inks which saves time and gives me more confidence in mark-making. I can be more painterly. There are also things I've noticed that can be done with white-on-black that can't be done as easily with just black-on-white.

Anyway, I had to do that all digitally here. Here's the final piece again. You can see a lot of the things I tweaked. Were I to change anything now, I'd probably mess with the little girl's stance and figure out a different way to do the drill. If I were to start from scratch, I'd probably try to make Big Daddy in action somehow, maybe fighting some of the bad guys from the game:

Then I sent it off to Jacobe Baake who colored it it in:

2010-08-08T01:33:00.001-05:00

I stuck my friend, Andy, into issue 3 of We Will Bury You. He was zombified and purple, but here he is with the reference photo I used.

2010-08-07T01:09:00.000-05:00

I was messing around last night and drew The Captain!

2010-08-06T02:40:00.000-05:00

A couple more designs for that project I'm working on with Hopeless.

2010-08-05T02:05:00.001-05:00

A couple of sketch cards from a while back:

2010-08-04T11:08:00.002-05:00

Brea and Zane talk We Will Bury You and other future projects on Bloody Disgusting.

2010-08-03T01:58:00.000-05:00

This is a character sketch for something I'm working on with writer and compadre Dennis Hopeless. It doesn't reflect the final design of the character, but was fun to do.

2010-08-02T00:38:00.002-05:00

The card I made my Mom last Mother's Day.

2010-08-01T19:38:00.002-05:00

I updated the links page. Go check it out! =====> LINKS!

2010-08-01T01:59:00.002-05:00

A while ago I did this pic of "Big Daddy" from Bioshock. It was for something that didn't pan out. Below are colors by the awesome Jacob Baake.