ICARUS

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          COOPER David Charles

 

ELFLORD FAN CLUB

The Elflord Fan Club was introduced in Elflord 12, 1987. Below is an invitation to join the club giving the benefits and the cost.

Elflord 12, 1987: Inside back cover.

 

BLOODLINES

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         WALTON Rob

 

 

BLACK EYE PRODUCTIONS                                                                                          Location: 388 Kribbs Street, Cambridge, Ontario (1993-1995).                                        5135 Parc Avenue, Suite 5, Montréal, (1996-?).

Founder/Owner: Michel Vrána.

Contributors: Nick Craine, Dylan Horrocks and Jason Stephens

Founded by Michel Vrana in 1992/3 at the time of the demise of Tragedy Strikes Press. Black Eye Productions was located in Cambridge from 1992 then relocated to Montréal between February and August 1995. The name Black Eye Productions was used in anticipation that the company would be involved in other media.

It picked up SIN Comics and Pickle from the Tragedy Strikes list of titles and published periodicals and books into 1997. In that year Michel changed its name to Black Eye Books. Jar of Fools (1997) using the Black Eye Books name. In 1998. Michel transformed it into a design company and exclusive design consultant for Drawn & Quarterly. Jar of Fools – A Picture Book was published by Drawn & Quarterly Books in 2003.

PRODUCT:                                                                                                                        All published by Black Eye Productions unless otherwise noted.

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content adaption & Cover book front & back colour:

Dance Me Outside: The Illustrated Screenplay. Adapt., Nick Crane September 1994. This novella was adapted from the screenplay of the film Dance Me Outside, Writ., Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar, John Frizell, directed by Bruce McDonald. It was based on a collection of short stories by W.P. Kinsella also titled Dance Me Outside, Oberon Press, 1977.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content strips & Cover book wraparound colour:

Oddville: The Complete Strips. Car., Jason Stephens. Art Ick Productions, July 1996. Distributed by Black Eye Productions.

Content story black & white & Cover front & back colour:

The Land Of Nod Treasury. Car., Jason Stephens. November 1994. A collection from Sin Comics.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content story black & white & Cover colour:

Atomic City Tales, …. Car., Jason Stephens. Ed., Michael Vrana.
1, Summer 1994.	2, Autumn 1994.	3, Spring 1995.

Atomic City Special, 1, Summer 1995. “Night of the Monkey”. Car., Jay Stephens.

Pickle …: Car., Dylan Horrocks.
1, See Tragedy Strikes Press.	2, October 1993. 3, January 1994	4, April 1994. 5, October 1994.	6, February 1995. 7, August 1995.

SIN Comics,… Car., Jason Stephens. Ed., Michael Vrana.
1, Winter 1993	2, Spring 1994.	Replaced by Atomic City Tales.

The Land of Nod, …. Car., Jason Stephens. Ed., Michael Vrana. Size smaller than regular sized magazine (15cmX23cm)
1, March 1996.	2, July 1996.

POSTER IN PERIODICAL:

Atomic City Tales Presents Big Bang and the Manic Gang. Signed Sin. Ltd edition. No date. Blackeye Productions.

SOURCE:

Internet:

“Black Eye Productions.” Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, 30 May 2017. Accessed 5 February 2018.

SPACE KID

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NOT THAT MAGIC

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GROUND ZERO GRAPHICS                                                                                              333-10Ave. N.E.                                                                                                                  Calgary, Alberta

President & Publisher: Adrian Kleinbergen                                                                          Vice-President & Editor: Marc Holmes                                                                                Treasurer: Brenna Toblan                                                                                                    Operations Supervisor: Tatjana Holmes

Contributors: Gordon Derry, Tom Grummett, Adrian Kleinbergen, Roger Williamson.

Character: Shadowalker.

Ground Zero Graphics was organized by Adrian Kleinbergen who formerly in partnership with Gordon Derry had contributed several titles to the Aircel Publishing line. The company picked up the “Shadowalker serial which had been started then dropped by Aircel. It reprinted with a new cover the issue that Aircel had published then published a second issue. It appears that these two issues are the only product that Ground Zero ever published.

PRODUCT:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial & Cover front& back:

Shadowalker Chronicles …: Writ., Gordon Derry. Illus., Tom Grummett. Let., Tom Grummett unless noted otherwise. Ground Zero Graphics. Colour cover. Black & white content.
1, July 991. Cover, Tom Grummet.	2, Sept.1991. Let., Roger Williamson. Cover Adrian Kleinbergen.

 

SHADOWALKER

The serial “Shadowalker” created by writer Gordon Derry and illustrator Tom Grummett was first published by Aircel Publishing in 1988. Only one issue appeared before Aircel was absorbed by Malibu Comics Entertainment and the title was dropped. In 1991, Ground Zero Graphics resurrected it, publishing a reprint of the Aircel publication and a second issue of its own. Then, Ground Zero Graphics itself ceased operations and “Shadowalker” disappeared.

“Shadrak Olcott Walker” was attending military boarding school when three days after his fourteenth birthday he received an amulet as a present from his mother and father who were an archeological/paleontological team working in Cambodia. Just after sending the amulet, they disappeared. The amulet gave “Shadrak” the ability to read a person’s aura. Through this ability he discovered that individuals who looked like ordinary human beings were actually evil, otherworld creatures. Thus, he became “Shadowalker” or as his business card reads “Shad O. Walker” and as a private detective, he hunts down these creatures.

The serial opens with “Shadrak” and his associate “Vov Culak” a rather ancient individual, rescuing teenagers from otherworld creatures called the “Drakuvich”. The house in which this rescue occurs is leased by one “Yovach Karnakin”. The scene switches to journalist “Morena Moraz” who it turns out has psychic powers. As she walks down the street, reading and outraged by the way her editor has sensationalized her article about the mysterious murder of her informant “Jack” whose head is missing, she is confronted by the “Drakuvich” she breaks away but is finally cornered. At this point “Vov” enters the scene to save her and advise her to go to “Shad O. Walker”. It turns out that “Vov” is more than he appears. First from his staff come forces that hold the “Drakuvich” a bay. Then he turns into a werewolf and destroys them.

“Morena” goes to “Shad’s” office and after much bickering and grimacing which this reader found tiresome, they join forces. During this encounter “Morena” has a physic moment triggered by “Shad’s” amulet and we find out that “Shad’s parents were murdered by the “Drakuvich”. “Shad” and “Morena” go to a warehouse owned by “Karnakin”. Here they encounter another cult ceremony where the occultists led by “Karnakin” are draining life energy from “Jack’s” severed head which is still alive. A battle in which “Vov” suddenly appears ensues. We find that “Karnakin” and “Vox” have been battling each other for centuries. The battle ends with the cult ceremony, its participants and the warehouse destroyed but with “Karnakin” escaping. The episode ends with the three protagonists planning to journey to a Mohawk burial site to confront the “Drakuvich” conspiracy again.

Obviously, this serial was intended to continue, but whatever the cause poor sales, corporate insolvency or creator fatigue no further episodes were published.

 

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content serial & Cover front:

Shadowalker 1, 1988. Writ., Gordon Derry. Illus., Tom Grummett. Aircel Publishing Ltd. Colour cover. Black & white content.

Content serial & Cover front & back:

Shadowalker Chronicles …: Writ., Gordon Derry. Illus., Tom Grummett. Let., Tom Grummett unless noted otherwise. Ground Zero Graphics. Colour cover. Black & white content.
1-1, July 991. Cover, Tom Grummet.	1-2, Sept.1991. Let., Roger Williamson. Cover Adrian Kleinbergen.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Shadowalker 1, 1988: Introduction: Inside front cover.

GALLERY:

Shadowalker 1, 1988: Front cover. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker 1, 1988: 5. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker 1, 1988: 11. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker Chronicles 1-2, September 1991: Front cover. Ills., Adrian Kleinbergen.

Shadowalker Chronicles 1-2, September 1991: 19. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker Chronicles 1-2, September 1991: 20. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker Chronicles 1-2, September 1991: 21. Illus., Tom Grummett.

Shadowalker Cards inside, Shadowalker Chronicles 1-2, September 1991.                    Illus., Nancy Niles & Adrian Kleinbergen

 

STARSTONE

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             DERRY Gordon

             KLEINBERGEN Adrian

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).

WORK:

ILLUSTRATOR:

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.