The Dresden Files RPG

The Dresden Files RPG will be illustrated using both art from the Dresden Files comic book and with original illustrations from an assortment of talented artists.

To be completely honest, we jumped the gun on getting art for the project — chalk it up to our early inexperience as publishers — but without doing so, we wouldn’t have gotten the chance to meet and work with such an incredible array of talent!

The Comic Book

The Dresden Files are being adapted to comic book form — along with some original material — by the Dabel Brothers.  You can learn more about this project on their website.

Since Jim has often said that he thinks about the Dresden Files, visually, as a comic book, we thought we’d be serving the Dresdenverse best by striking a deal with the Dabels to use some of the art from the comic book series in the game.  To our delight, they agreed!

The comics are illustrated by Ardian Syaf.

Original Artists

Toren “Macbin” Atkinson has been drawing and painting professionally since 1996. First it was during the off-hours of his day job in a library wholesaler. As time passed however, he took more and more time off of work to draw until finally he quit his day job altogether in the summer of 1999. Most of his work is for the role-playing game industry, although he has done book covers and film production work.

Born in Atlanta, Talon Dunning was raised in Miami, Florida before moving back to Atlanta in 1997 after graduating in Fine Art from Auburn University. Talon now does freelance illustration in the RPG and CCG industries. Currently, his main client is White Wolf with whom he interned in 1999-2000. (See a sneak peek)

Melissa Gay pursued a BA degree in Studio Art at the University of the South (c’ 1990), an MS degree in Biology from Middle Tennessee State University, and a less-than-satisfying career in fine art before realizing that she had always wanted to be a fantasy illustrator. In 1998 she began to show and sell prints of fairy paintings at science fiction conventions, and she has been happy ever since. Her illustrations have appeared in roleplaying games and supplements, lab manuals, herbals, a comic book, and a newspaper. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and baby son, one resident cat, and two cats errant who just stop by for meals. When not drawing or painting, she is reading or singing to her child, practicing Wado-Ryu Karate, roleplaying, hiking, writing, harassing a musical instrument, sewing, or otherwise getting into mischief. She has been an avid roleplayer since the age of 10. (See a sneak peek)

Adam Huntley is relatively new to drawing for role-playing games, but he has already made his mark illustrating the upcoming Gatecrasher 2371 from Domibia Games.

Mike Kucharski may be most familiar to role-playing game folks for all the work he did illustrating the Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game from Phage Press. Mike has been drawing since kindergarten, starting with a certain well-known art correspondance course found at the back of a comic book. Since his graduation from the School of the Society of Arts & Crafts, he has been a graphic designer, art director, cartoonist, art teacher, and an illustrator producing TV commercial storyboards, video box covers, movie posters, B&W and color illustrations for magazine & newspaper ads, comic book adaptations, portraits, billboards, and product illustration. (See a sneak peek)

Residing in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Ed Northcott likes to use lots of capital letters in his opening sentences. When not chained to the drawing board or vehemently cursing his computer, Ed can usually be found spending time with his wife and their housepests (two dogs and a cat). For relaxation and fun he spends time in his unheated basement clanging about iron plates and screaming. The neighbours love him for this. You may recognize Ed as the artist behind Guardians of Order’s Silver Age Sentinels. He’s also done work for Abstract Nova’s game, Heaven & Earth. (See a sneak peek)

Jennifer Rodgers is an illustrator and colorist well known among the “indie” gaming set. She lives and works in Burlington, NJ with her husband and cat, focusing mostly on the game and comics industries due to a love of horror, sci-fi and fantasy art. (See a sneak peek)

David Seidman, our cover artist, has been professionally illustrating since graduating in 2001 from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been selected into prestigious SPECTRUM books, been displayed nationwide, and has been published around the world. Currently, David lives in Philadelphia with his partner and muse, Celeste Giuliano. (See a sneak peek)

Christian N. St. Pierre has done illustration for a number of game companies, including Mongoose Publishing, Morrigan Press, and Key 20 Publishing. He’ll be most familiar to fans of Evil Hat’s Spirit of the Century, as he was the sole artist for that project. (See a sneak peek)