"Thanos Quest," "Guardians" Assistant Editor, Editor and Colorist-- Renee Witterstaetter-- Available for Bookings

Writer, editor, and color-artist  Renee Witterstaetter, known for her work on "Thanos Quest," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Avengers" and "Jurassic Park," will be making several convention appearance this year to celebrate the pop culture blockbusters traveling from the written and drawn page to the big screen.

Renee Witterstaetter

In addition, Renee is also the author of "Nick Cardy: The Aritst at War," "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," "Tex: The Art or Mark Texeira," the children's book "Kerry and the Scary Things,"  "Dying for Action: The Life and Films of Jackie Chan," and "Nick Cardy: Wit-Lash" as well as numerous other books, which she will also have at all show appearances.   

Witterstaetter began the comic phase of her career working on such titles as "Guardians of the Galaxy,"  "Superman,"  "Silver Surfer," "Conan The Barbarian," "The Punisher" special projects, and "Conan Saga," then going on to spearhead the reintroduction of "She-Hulk," at Marvel as well, as part of that legendary run.

Some of Renee's Jurassic Park projects.

She then moved to Topps Comics where she was the editor on "X-Files," "Jurassic Park," "Xena" and "Hercules" and is the co-creator—with Jackie Chan and artist Michael Golden-- of the successful artist-owned series, "Spartan X" which will be made into a trade paperback featuring new material.

She is also the colorist on hundreds of comics from "The Avengers" to "Spider-man" to "Captain America" to "Jurassic Park," among many, many others. "I must have colored a thousand pages of comic books," she says.

Film work was a natural progression for Renee after this storytelling immersion in comics, and she has since worked on dozens of music videos for Madonna, Seal, Ben Harper and Usher, as well as the feature movies "Rush Hour Two," "Red Dragon ," "To ease the lose," and "Swimming With The Virgin," among others.

Some of Renee's works.

In addition to on-going film work, she is the President of Little Eva Ink Publishing, and Eva Ink Artist Group, which represents artists and writers in comics, storyboards, fine art painting and more. she is also the head of Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking, handling actors and voice actors for appearances.

Along those lines, Renee is also one of the producers of the "Creator Chronicles" DVD series with Woodcrest Productions, featuring interviews with major industry creators such as George Perez, Bill Sienkiewicz, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Matt Wagner, Joe Sinnott and many more.

The ever popular Thanos Quest.

Current projects also include new books "Michael Golden, Dangerous Curves," "Santa Confidential" with Hagar the Horrible artist Chris Browne, and  "Mark Texeira: Tempest."

Renee will be available to autograph the comics she has worked on in her career, film DVD's and her newest books available at all the shows for the 2018/2019 season.

For more information on Renee Witterstaetter and her projects, contact: evaink@aol.com, or Eva Ink on Facebook.

Golden Fantasy Artworks on Display-- A Review

New Article about the Mosley Gallery show. I like it that they focus on the Exosquad piece. I was the editor on the series and hired Golden to do the covers. --R.



Comic Book Artist Exhibits Fantasy Artworks at Mosely Gallery.
Focus: Exosquad #1


The exhibition of Michael Golden's comic book art, on view through Dec. 2 at the Mosely Gallery, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, raises important questions about audience, gender and the relationship of images to texts.

Specifically, these images were created as integral parts of stories in comic books or graphic novels, whose readers are primarily male. As such, can they hold the attention of female viewers or viewers who have little knowledge or interest in what Golden has termed "science-fiction/fantasy-adventure"?

Somewhat to my surprise, the answer is "yes." I was struck by the extraordinary skill and expressiveness of these images, despite the fact that I know very little about the characters or narratives depicted in them.

The exhibition has about 40 works, primarily original drawings in black and white for pages and covers of comic books and graphic novels. A few paintings for comic book covers or yearbooks are also on display.

Two works for the cover of "ExoSquad #1" show Golden's working process. One is a brush and ink drawing and the other, a 'blue line' painting. To make the drawing, Golden initially "penciled" or drew the scene. He then laid a sheet of clear acetate over the pencil drawing, tracing its outlines and linear details onto the acetate in black ink with a brush. After that, he "colored" or painted the pencil drawing. He then laid a copy of the acetate line drawing, now in blue, over the painted drawing, creating a composite image. The final image, fusing line with color, thus exists only as a composite.

Golden's approach to making these images reflects, in part, the process used to reproduce them, in which the lines and colors are printed separately. What is unusual, however, is the extent of his involvement, performing tasks -- penciling, inking and coloring -- that are generally done by different people.

The end result is a crisp, clear, minutely detailed image, full of dramatic action, that sums up the key characters and storyline (based on a television series of the early 1990s) of interstellar war between humans (Terrans) and Neosapiens, an artificial race of slaves created by the Terrans who then revolted against them.

Other fantasy-adventure works in the show depict Superman, the Micronauts, Spartan X, Bucky O'Hare and Jurassic Park. Golden's brush and ink drawing for the cover of "Jurassic Park Returns #4" shows his incredible skill in creating a wide-range of illusionistic effects, such as the detailed representation of the immense, open-jawed Tyrannosaurus whose shadow is about to swallow the terrified couple at the right.

The show also includes cover art from Golden's "The 'NAM" series, which deals with the experiences of ordinary soldiers in Vietnam. The example on display shows soldiers leaving hostile terrain by helicopter. Other works in the series depict their interactions with fellow soldiers, the Vietnamese, or civilians in the United States upon their return home.

WHAT. The Comic Book Art of Michael Golden
WHERE. Mosely Gallery, Arts and Technologies Center, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne
WHEN. Through Dec. 2
HOURS. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed for Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 24-26
CALL. 410-651-7770

Full Story Here:

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