AVAILABLE TODAY!! New chapter of the ongoing webseries comic, Heroes of the North. This one is CHILLING ME SOFTLY and was written by Yann Brouillette, art by David J. Cutler, coloured/lettered by me.
Heroes of the North: Nordik pg 1 lineart by David J. Cutler, colours by ~KeirenSmith
just a quick tease…we’re still finishing up. Should be online soon, then in print end of April.
My next colouring/lettering assignment is for Heroes of the North. It’s a Nordik/8-Ball team-up story called Chilling Me Softly. They’re previewing this and other art at their site.
Art by David J. Cutler
Just got my comp copies of the Heroes of the North omnibus published by Ardden Entertainment. I lettered all the stories, and coloured two (Q & A with Alpha Q, and Hornet: Dark Origins. I was still using KT Smith at the time. All the comic art, except for some of the covers, is done by Marcus “MAS” Smith). Heroes of the North is a live-action webseries and comic book series done by#mce_temp_url# Movie Seals Entertainment out of Montreal. Rather than sit around and complain that there aren’t any tv shows or comic books with Canadian superheroes or villains, they decided to make their own. They’ve done it on their own money, and on their own time (while all working full-time jobs!). Last year, they were notified that copies of the comic book would be put into Canada’s National Library Archives.
The comics were originally published online, with the idea that they would have short print-runs, mostly to be sold at cons. But, Ardden Entertainment saw the booth at a comic convention in the States (maybe Megacon?) and negotiated a deal to sell the HoTN figures and to publish a collection of the comic stories.
Because the stories were to be seen online, I was asked to letter them a little larger than usual—it was a bit of a shock to see them in print! A couple of them are HUGE! But, all in all, I think they look good…(although I will probably size them down a little for future stories).
And…because of this interest, because the website is doing so well, and the live-action webseries is doing so well, Movie Seals has decided to do more comics. I’m currently colouring and lettering two new 12-page stories (art by The Northern Guard artist David J. Cutler and Undertow artist Gibson Quarter respectively), Ty the Guy is finishing up the script for a 12 pager (to be drawn by Pitt artist Richard Pace), and there are more to come…
Omnibus cover by Marcus “MAS” Smith.
Alpha Q pg 4 Heroes of the North by ~KeirenSmith
from the online webcomic Heroes of the North, also an ongoing live-action webseries. This story squeaked in to make the deadline to be included in the collected edition that will be coming out early next year.
Art by Marcus MAS Smith, story by Yann Brouillette, colours/letters by me. (I keep wanting to tag this “Canadian comic book creators” but MAS is actually from Chicago.)
from Heroes of the North, the origin of HORNET comic book. Story by Yann Brouillette, art by MAS, coloured and lettered by me.
Acadia from Heroes of the North, by Ty Templeton. HoTN is a completely Canadian superhero webseries and comic book series being done in Montreal. It’s so Canadian that the book, episodes and figurines will be going into the Canadian Archives. The superheroes and villains have all been created for this series (although some may have names that seem familiar—when you’re doing an all-Canadian series, we’re all going to end up in the same territory! Kind of hard to pass up a name like Fleur-de-lys!)
It’s somewhat amusingly appropriate that Ty sent in this work to them today: It’s National Acadian Day in Canada. So, to those who celebrate…Happy Acadian Day.
Canadian webseries Heroes of the North has a new comic online: the origin story for Pacifica. Cover by Ty Templeton, story by Yann Brouillette, art by Marcus Smith, letters by Keiren Smith.
Pin-up of Freelance, from North Guard #1, Moonstone Books, out November 2010. from the artist’s blog…
http://drawingsforhumans.blogspot.com/2010/02/guardians-freelance.html
http://keirensmith.deviantart.com/gallery/
