Ted McKeever is an accomplished comic book writer and artist of the highest grade. His graphic style is very distinct, drawing in bold, angular lines, which gives his work a fantastic, almost Kafka-esque, edge.

His published career began in 1987, when he wrote and illustrated the comic, Transit. A multitude of work has followed, including both comics and illustrations. Between 1987 and 1993, Ted penned and drew three critically acclaimed series: Eddy Current, Plastic Forks, and Metropol. In 1993 he and writer Peter Milligan brought the well-received comic Extremist into being.

Ted has continued to write and draw incredibly original works including Metropol AD, Faith, Industrial Gothic, and Junk Culture. Recently, he's been working on new projects with comics publisher IDW.

Ted's Nuthouse of Fun

Click to see Ted's new and growing collection of twisted things that he wants to share with all who have the desire to laugh in one form or another.

News - 043007

Okay folks,

Time to dust off the old keyboard and update this puppy.
Been a turbulent couple of months. With not having been to a major con in the states for about 8 years (having gone overseas to Germany and Belgium for those amazingly wonderful appearances), I decided to start up my U.S return at the Big Apple Con in NY some weeks back. Needless to say, it was not only a blast to see all the great fans, and meet new ones. But also it was a kind of reunion of old (and by that I mean in time, not age) friends in the business. I haven't seen as many good acquaintances in one place since . . . hell, since I can remember. It gave me a newfound connection that I will not let fall away again.

During said con, I also had work deadlines that kept me running back to
the hotel room to ink pages for the Legion of Monsters: The Zombie story I was doing for
Marvel. By no means was it a chore, in fact, it was a total joy to work on, as
John Barber, my editor in the shadows, made the project a blast to be a part of. I haven't felt that free to go all out, as well as kept in contact with since . . . well, I can't remember that either.

Anyway, here's some pages from it, minus the text as you'll have to get a copy to read that part.  Chris Chuckry, once again, is on board as colorist and as always does
one hell of an amazing job.  He is as much a part of how the story translates as my art and text.

Here's some reviews and their respective sites:

http://www.comixtreme.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34061
" The purpose of Marvel’s Legion of Monsters specials seems to be to re-establish their monster characters as legitimate horror franchises.
If this is, indeed, the goal, Simon Garth: Zombie has a bright future. Man-Thing, however, is boring as ever."

  The only thing that brings this story up from a “poor” rating is a
really, really strong Zombie story by Ted McKeever. The story is basically a
day in the life of the Zombie – found dead somewhere, taken to a hospital, escaping… living his horrible, empty existence, seeking the one thing he can’t “live” without. As a pure horror story, it works. It’s creepy, it’s disturbing, and McKeever’s art style is perfect for it.

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/117648556118177.htm
McKeever as well may have found a perfect match for his Gothic
tendencies in Simon Garth. He’s one of those 70s vengeful lone wolf characters, who
come into town and right a wrong, only to be left as empty when they leave as when they arrived. The definition of a drifter, this muscular revenant has
consciousness of a grim and fatalistic sort, and an extreme version of morality. Here he’s improbably looking for love, but McKeever somehow finds a modicum of romantic whimsy amidst the forensic brutality. It’s a Valentine Halloween, macabre without being Grand Guignol.

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=1328
Ted McKeever’s angular visuals are a perfect fit for the bizarre world
Of the Zombie but then I would have bought the issue just for his art
alone. It’s always worth the entry price, inspiring and humbling to say the least.

Okay, now it's back to the board, as I am currently working on a
project for the wonderfullyprofessional as well as conversationally inspiring Heidi MacDonald at Fox Atomic.
But more on that later, after I ink myself into a coffee induced stupor.

Until then,

stay sane.

And if you can't,

then stay in.

T.

News - 081406

Cover for Zombie #5 for IDW

NEWS - 071206

Okay, dear reader, here we go again.
4 down, and one more cover to do for the Zombie series for IDW. Then a new 5-issue series of covers, loaded with guns, girls, gore, and white suits.
Hint hint . . .

Not much else to report on that is final.
A few tasty morsels though.
Some new foreign news soon, I hope, of Metropol proportions.
A couple of full-series pitches in to Marvel.

And a big change at DC, that might actually produce some opportunities that have long seemed closed.

So, like a building under construction, so far, all foundation, but nothing to build on, . . yet.

Enjoy the day.

T.

Pictures from my recent trip to Belgium

Pictures from the cancelled Princess of Mars project

NEWS - 052206

Okay, so it's May . . .
Hot as hell, and enough rain the choke a . . . well, an
artist drowning in work.

Three covers of 5 done, for an upcoming Zombie series for IDW. Just the covers on that one. And beginning work on a 5-issue series that Dan Taylor is adapting for IDW of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Princess of Mars" novel. So far, I'm currently doing the interiors for the first issue, while the completed first issue's cover makes the rounds. The best thing about this series is I read it when I was 10 years old and now 36 years later I get to visualize what has been fermenting in my head. Fun stuff indeed.

As well as the entire series, and covers will be colored by the amazing
Chris Chuckry, who you should recall did Enginehead total justice.

I'd write more, but my editors are e-mailing me for work, and if they
see more text here than ink on the pages, they will be quite, let's say,
agitated..

To say the least.

More soon, when I come up for air....

T.