KLEINBERGEN Adrian
Born 1961 in Edmonton.
In 1987 he started at Aircel Publishing in partnership with Gordon Derry, illustrating the three issue Starstone. This was followed by illustrating and colouring the five issue Darkewood. Starstone was later collected into Starstone Chronicles (December 2017)
In 1991, he contributed art work for Genesis v.3, an unpublished Role-Playing game. He organized Ground Zero Graphics, which published The Shadowalker Chronicles originally created by Gordon Derry and Tom Grummet for Aircel. He was one of the early artists for On Spec, a speculative fiction magazine published in Edmonton and a contributor to Neo-opsis another speculative fiction publisher based in B.C. doing both covers and interior art. He has also worked as a professional comics inker for a variety of periodicals and artists.
He authored the graphic novel Frontiers published in January 2001 by MU Press and has since written text novels Return to the Great White Space, (August 2015) and the Agent Hammer series Hammer and Fire (January 2022). When Falls the Hammer, (June 2022) plus short story collections Carpenter’s Hammer & Other Tales (Feb. 2002), Carpenter Files (August 2015), Tom Ford Chronicles (September 2015)
He has displayed and sold artwork in a number of venues and galleries. His folios of black and white art include Look Upon My Black & White Works (February 2012), It’s All There In Black & White (September 2015), Microcosm (August 2015), Microcosm 2 (January 2018), Warrior Women and Superheroines (January 2018).
Along with writing. drawing and painting, he has designed jewelry and worked on sculpture, costuming, and is involved in magic. He was the primary artist and a columnist for the one-shot national magic magazine, The Servante (March 2012).
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PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content serial & Cover front:
| Darkewood …: Writ., Gordon Derry. Aircel Publishing Ltd. Colour cover & content. | ||
| 2, 1987. | 3, 1988. (?) | 5, 1987 (?) |
| Starstone …: Writ., Gordon Derry. Colour cover. Black & white content. | ||
| 1, September 1987. | 2, 1987. | 3, 1987. |
SOURCE:
Adrian Kleinbergen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Kleinbergen . Accessed 9 Feb. 2023
GALLERY:
Darkewood 2, 1987: 10. Character bottom left panel, Sylverlain the minstrel.
Darkewood 3, 1987: Front cover. Characters left to right, Sylverlain, Anar-Akni.
Darkewood 5, 1987: 11. Character, Tamryn.
Elflord, 2-11, 1987: Back cover advertisement. Character, Azork.
Starstone 1, 1987: 11.Character, Raze.
Starstone 2, 1987: Front cover. Characters clockwise from top, Azork, Raze, Chela, Seer, Bron.
Starstone 2, 1987: 28. Characters top left panel Seer. Bottom panel Seer & Azork.
Starstone 3, 1987: 32. Characters clockwise Seer, Bron, Raze’s grave, the android Itara, the mag Zev & Chela.