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Mychailo Kazybrid
Blog: mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com
A regular cartoonist in Comics International, Mychallo has been involved in the cartoon and comic book industry for over 31 years, mainly producing artwork for various British companies and publications including Matt & the Cat (pictured), Comic Cuts, Transformers, Sesame Street, Popples, Dennis, Spider-Man Weekly, The Daily Howl, The Bash St Kids, Minnie The Minx, Bananaman, Dandy and Beano Library Books with experience including storyboard, advertising, and four years producing cartoons for Yorkshire TV.

Tom Kelly
Link: www.tommm9.daportfolio.com
Blog: http://tommm9.blogspot.com/

US illustrator whose work includes the Sword of the Samurai webcomic on WebComicsNation.

Chris Kemple
Official: www.redvengeance.com

Dave Kendall visit
Official : www.rustybaby.com
Dave Kendall paints book covers adorning horror and dark fantasy novels, he has also illustrated work for the comics 2000AD, Warhammer and Event Horizon, among others.

Ian Kennedy
• Interview on British Comics Art by Tony O'Donnell
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Highly accomplished artist on many strips for DC Thomson and IPC including the 1980s Dan Dare. His aircraft work is without equal. Also worked on Starblazer.

Keni
Official Site: keniarts.blogspot.com
Keni, whose talents include animation as well as illustration and comics, is the creator of MuseToons. He describes himself as "a husband, a father, a grandfather, a friend, a plein air painter and an animator. Most importantly, I’m a child of God."

Jim Keefe
Official: www.keefestudios.com
Flash Gordon writer and artist. Among other things, this site has a superb section devoted to Flash Gordon.

Dave King
MySpace: www.myspace.com/davekingmyspace
Dave King has worked extensively in both Europe and L.A., as well as his native city of London. As writer and artist, he sold his first long-running, professional comic strip at the tender age of sixteen, before honing his abilities at the prestigious St. Martin's School of Art in Covent Garden. Frustrated at the college's negative attitude toward cartooning, Dave used his creative cunning to devise his own course along with a team of his fellow students.
Early commissions saw him working in textile prints, particularly for cartoon boxer shorts, until the bottom fell out of the market.
After being chosen by Warner Bros. to attend their Looney Tunes Design Looniversity in Paris, he worked as a scriptwriter and artist for comic books, magazines and newspapers, working on titles such as Animaniacs, Pinky And The Brain, Beetlejuice, Dennis the Menace, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, the Spice Girls, Tatler, the Daily Star, the Daily Mail and The Times, before eventually moving into the animation industry.
He has worked with many of the UK's leading animation houses, including Cosgrove Hall, Collingwood O'Hare, Touchwood Animation and Passion Pictures on series, music promos and advertising. His long association with Cartoon Network UK (which has seen him work on everything from The Powerpuff Girls to Cow & Chicken by way of Scooby Doo and Godzilla) saw him move into the role of animation director, on their first ever in-house produced series, V Birds.
He now works across the film, TV, advertising and music industries as an animation director, art director, storyboard artist and scriptwriter, for clients including the BBC, Nickelodeon and Red Bee Media.
He is also a regular guest teacher for the animation course at Volda University College in Norway, and in 2007 was invited to be a jury member for the Volda Animation Festival, alongside Aardman animation director Dave Osmand and Oscar-winning animation director Torill Kove.
He believes the Daleks are the greatest design icon ever, finds it strange writing this biography in the third person and waits for the world to discover his latent talent as a lounge singer.

Rich King Illustration
Official: lindahome.freeuk.com/rich.king
Illustrator, Designer, Consultant, Trainer, Editor and Photo-Journalist, Rich's credits include Fiesta, GreyBike and Teazer.

Jack Kirby
• The Jack Kirby Collector
Fantastic magazine about one of the greats of the US comics industry. A must read if you're a fan of his work.

• The Kirby Graphics Gallery
Part of the Comics and Stories web site devoted to International comics. Image heavy but worth a visit!

Douglas Klauba
Official: www.douglasklauba.com
Blog: douglasklauba.blogspot.com
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Born and raised in Chicago with pencil and paintbrush always in hand, Douglas says he is influenced by pulp magazine art, retro movie posters and golden age illustrators. He's the cover artist for Moonstone Books: The Phantom, The Spider, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Jack Hagee: Private Eye, The Lone Wolf, Doc Savage, Zorro and The Avenger.

Joe Kohl
Official: www.new1.com/jkohl
Joe Kohl has been a cartoonist and illustrator since 1973, with work published in titles as diverse as Reader's Digest, National Enquirer, Punch, Banker's Monthly and Penthouse. His work has also included books, advertisements, greeting cards, book covers, billboards and much more.
If you happen to be a golfer, you may enjoy Joe's Lucky Pants and Other Golf Myths. Many of these cartoons have just been released as a book with Evanston Publishing Co.

Joe Kubert
Official: www.kubertsworld.com
Active in all aspects of the comic book profession for the past sixty years Joe Kubert has received many international honors for his work. In 1976, he founded the highly regarded JOE KUBERT SCHOOL OF CARTOON AND GRAPHIC ART, INC. Hundreds of his graduates are currently professionals in the field.
In response to countless requests, Joe has created a new series of Correspondence Courses whose focus is specifically on comic book art. Written, designed, illustrated and produced by Joe, the courses detail every facet of comic book work in step-by-step methodology, including 20 additional courses being developed. These courses are for everyone, amateurs and professionals alike.
After several queries about postal comic art courses for would-be UK artists, I contacted the Joe Kubert School to find out if his world famous Correspondence Courses were available to people outside the US. Joe Kubert kindly wrote back to tell me that his famous comic art Correspondence Courses are open not just to North Americans but also to residents of the UK. "In fact, we have a tremendous amount of students participating in our courses from all over the world!" he says. "The cost of an initial course [as of May 2003], complete with art supplies, is $325.
"After the purchase of the initial course, there is a $50 reduction for each subsequent course because subsequent courses do not include art supplies. Thus, the first course you take is $325 and every subsequent course is $275. There is also an additional shipping cost of $51 for us to send the course package and to return the 5 critiqued assignments to the UK.
"The videos are also available in the PAL format (European version) for an additional $8. Otherwise, a VHS video will be included in each course package at no additional cost."

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