Tag: Kelly Yates

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Amber Atoms is back!

AMBER ATOMS is coming back! I’m collecting the first 4 issues into a trade paperback and targeting a late February launch on K!ckst@rter!

The book is 99.5% finished, I’m just wrapping up a few edits and waiting for a couple pin-ups to arrive. Work on the exclusive, new 7-page short story that I wrote and illustrated, is complete! It’s titled, The Great Honziebell Race, and you can see the complete first page here.

As always, thank your for your support and I hope to see you this coming convention season! Next time… the cover reveal!

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9th Doctor

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A new Doctor Who print just in time for Dragon Con! The 9th Doctor fresh out of the Time War with the Daleks! Pencil, inks, colors all by me. (hint, hint – Titan Comics)

So, if you’re going to be at Dragon Con please drop by my table (#TBL21) located in Comics & Pop Artists Alley, Grand Hall East of the Hyatt Regency.

Also, there’s a chance I might be working on a variant version of this piece. Keep an eye out for it. ~Kelly

 

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My Doctor

dw_ottawa comicconWhen anyone asks me which Doctor is my favorite I always go with the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker! I love watching all the incarnations of the Doctor, but I have such fond memories growing up in the late 70’s and discovering this odd fellow with an incredibly long scarf, traveling in something called a TARDIS. Needless to say, I was excited when the opportunity arose to work on this exclusive cover for the Ottawa Comic Con featuring the 4th Doctor!

Obviously I had to incorporate the Ottawa Parliament and other elements to make it Canadian, but I also wanted to find a way to work in the Jelly Babies. Somehow the idea to make the Jelly Babies Maple leaf shaped popped into my head and there you have it. Good luck finding one though, they were limited to 500 copies for VIP pass holders.

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Prisoners of Time

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If you need a reason to pick up issue #12 of Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time, then maybe this double-page spread will give you a taste of what’s waiting for you inside! All 11 Doctor’s in one time, one space. There’s also almost EVERY companion from the series in there as well.

It was great working on this last issue with Scott Tipton & David Tipton, Charlie Kirchoff and my editor, Denton Tipton! It felt a little like redemption for me after working on Doctor Who: The Forgotten #6. The deadline for that issue was terrible and I never felt like I did justice to Tony Lee’s script.

Hope you enjoy!

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Deadwood Doc

doctorwho_deadwood_kellyyatesThis is the retailer variant cover for Doctor Who #14, quite possibly the last cover I’ll be doing for IDW’s Publishing run. Sad as that is, I feel blessed to be illustrating the final issue of Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time! More about that later!

For this Western inspired piece I wanted to go for something more tonal and pull in colors I don’t normally try. Orange and purple compliment each other so I thought that might be a great place to start and it just fell into place after that. Being able to lean on one or two colors that pull all the various elements together is one of my new and favorite techniques.

I also took this opportunity to incorporate my wife and kids’ names into the background. Hopefully, the kids’ will appreciate it someday!

Yee-Haw!

 

 

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Wibbly~Wobbly, Timey-Wimey

doctor_amy pondThis is a commission I did of the 10th Doctor and Amy Pond that I was suppose to have finished at Baltimore Comic Con 2012. Unfortnately, I ran out of time at the show and had to bring it home to finish. Which means, back-burner. Sad, but true. When I was first asked to combine Amy and the 10th Doctor, I had to triple-check that’s they actually wanted since Amy only traveled with the 11th Doctor. However, being Doctor Who, wibbly~wobbly, timey-wimey, it could certainly happen.

Mission accomplished, I think!