Author: Gerhard

Gerhard was the background artist for the graphic novel "Cerebus" which ran for over 20 years reaching 300 issues. It is an icon of self-publishing throughout the genre.
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Article and Auction…

I did an interview for the March issue of Sequential Magazine:

Guess I’m old enough now to have the “Legendary” in front of my name.

Also…

There are some of my Cerebus Original Art pages coming up in Prop Store’s March 4th Toys, Comic Art & Collectibles auction (click on image to go to web page):

Bid now. Bid often.

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Octeract Cat

I got a very nice comment from Derek Gray on the Dec 11 blog post:

“Absolutely gorgeous, and a superb illustration of Grant’s script. Just reading his description was enough to give me a stress headache!“

Thanks Derek, I really appreciate it. My first reaction to reading the script for that panel was, “Oh… okay… uhmm… wait — what?!!?”

For most of the pages I have one Photoshop file for the layout. Some I have two, maybe three versions. That page, I have eleven.

Here’s another finished page (minus the word balloons) from chapter 5:

I believe it’s in issue 296 of Heavy Metal. Which I believe is in stores now. I don’t know for sure. Nobody tells me anything.