Über Talented Comic Book Artist Travis Charest Is Working On A Secret Project For Marvel

Über Talented Comic Book Artist Travis Charest Is Working On A Secret Project For Marvel

The incomparable Travis Charest is working on a Secret Marvel project and it involves Wolverine, Captain America, and the '40s.

By MarkJulian - Sep 10, 2011 11:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
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For those of you who may not be familiar with Travis Charest, this is the man who has influenced many of the best artist of the modern era. Beginning with his work on WildCats up to his recent covers for Captain America and Thor, Charest revolutionized the artistic process of comics and introduces a style that many attempt to emulate. Recently, Charest has been teasing a secret project for Marvel involving Wolverine and Captain America. Check it out:


Sneak Peak: When I get asked what I'm working on I usually don't have a decent answer, until now. This is just a sketch so don't read too much into it, but I can say it features Cap and Wolverine and part of it takes place in the early 1940's...

Sneak Peak: I've still got a long way to go but here's another look at something in the hopper...


Click here to check out more of Travis' awesome art work.









Travis Charest (February 2, 1969, Leduc, Alberta is a Canadian comic book, penciller, inker and painter, known for his work on such books as Darkstars, WildC.A.T.s, Grifter/Shi, WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age and The Metabarons. He has also done extensive cover work for many other books, such as various Star Wars series from Dark Horse Comics. Charest usually prefers not to employ preliminary sketching practices, such as layouts, thumbnails or lightboxing, in part due to impatience, and in part because he enjoys the serendipitous nature in which artwork develops when produced with greater spontaneity. He also prefers to use reference only when rendering objects that require a degree of real-life accuracy, such as guns, vehicles or characters of licensed properties that must resemble actors with whom they are closely identified, as when he illustrated the cover to Star Trek: The Next Generation: Embrace the Wolf in 2000.



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write33
write33 - 9/10/2011, 11:52 PM
good lord. he is sickly talented. i wish he drew more
croniccris
croniccris - 9/10/2011, 11:52 PM
damn that looks so epic!
TheBatman938865
TheBatman938865 - 9/10/2011, 11:59 PM
.....I'm officially jealous lol
DarrkEvil
DarrkEvil - 9/11/2011, 12:11 AM
Sweet ! In the first pic Wolverine looks like Indiana Logan ! lol !!
TorturedXGenius
TorturedXGenius - 9/11/2011, 12:11 AM
gotta admit im always 'irked' by the way some artist draw a 'curl' at the end of Wolverine's claws but that is a [frick]ing FANTASTIC drawing of Logan. The first pic is 'just a sketch' ?!...DAMN.
batmbl
batmbl - 9/11/2011, 12:38 AM
when he took over for Lee on WildC.A.T.s I enjoyed the comic even more because his art is so fantastic...at first he appeared to be a Lee rip-off but within a couple of issues his style was just out of this world...I can't wait to read this and awe in art...
thalidomide
thalidomide - 9/11/2011, 12:46 AM
great artwork, wolvie looks like a midget in the 1st pic lol... :)
THRILLHO
THRILLHO - 9/11/2011, 1:13 AM
MissMystique
MissMystique - 9/11/2011, 1:26 AM
TorturedXGenius, I totally agree with you. He did a really nice work here. Fantastic!
Ceejay
Ceejay - 9/11/2011, 2:18 AM
@Nephillim - Man, Travis was the best to come out of the whole IMAGE comics thing back in the 90's. He started as a Jim Lee clone and rapidly grew away from that "Marvel Way" of drawing muscle-bound idiots and developed his own unique style of finely rendered comic art. You should check out his early work on the wildcats and his unbeleivable segment in the Wildcats/X-men crossover (Goldenage) which we couldn't keep on the shelves back in the day running the old comic shop!

Only problem with Travest was his work ethic, the guy was notoriously slow and missed deadlines as regularly as clockwork. They even made the rebooted Wildcats a bi-monthly to give him a chance to produce the goods on time but he still couldn't deliver. I'm so glad his doing a comic again but I hope its not a monthly, this guy really should be used for special mini-series and one-shots. His work for the hard to get series "The Metabarons" was exquisite!




Ceejay
Ceejay - 9/11/2011, 2:48 AM
..some More Travest Charest!



ROMACK
ROMACK - 9/11/2011, 2:52 AM
Really great art. I will have to pick this up. I love stuff set during WWII.
spiderneil
spiderneil - 9/11/2011, 3:07 AM
we can look forward to an issue a year.
molee
molee - 9/11/2011, 3:31 AM
he's awesome but if u notice,he makes the torso kinda small.
Checkmate
Checkmate - 9/11/2011, 3:38 AM
This art looks great, but I wish they'd give the 40's a rest, I know it's integral to Marvel's history, but it's been done too much IMHO.
spiderneil
spiderneil - 9/11/2011, 5:38 AM
personally I think coipel is still marvel's best artist
spiderneil
spiderneil - 9/11/2011, 5:38 AM
and he doesn't take 4 months to draw an issue
Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 9/11/2011, 5:44 AM
Is it just me or does he kinda look like Bradley Cooper
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/11/2011, 5:46 AM
the first picture looks alright but the second looks shit hot.
DarthLaney
DarthLaney - 9/11/2011, 5:50 AM
he destroyed Wildcats for me - I dislike most of his work. I'm excited for the ww2 wolvie / cap book, but surely they could find someone else.
nordberg
nordberg - 9/11/2011, 5:54 AM
Re: the headline

You misspelled "Über."
TheAmazingSpiderMan47
TheAmazingSpiderMan47 - 9/11/2011, 6:19 AM
awesome art, but i don't like that style of claws, that would shred his hands every time tho it does look pretty sweet .... ahh well im just nitpicking
MaddMonkk
MaddMonkk - 9/11/2011, 6:28 AM
Mr. Charest has been working in Japan for years. He does advertising for sports and soft drinks.BIG money in Japan, I guess. Glad to see him back where he belongs.
SCURVYDOG619
SCURVYDOG619 - 9/11/2011, 7:23 AM
Good to see Travis Charest artwork again in a US comic. At a previous Comic-Con,the actual pages of that X-Men Golden Age book were displayed gallery-style,and I remember being blown away by it[as was Brandon Peterson,who happened to be in the same viewing line]. At the time,he was only in the US on a work visa...I also remember inking god Scott Williams saying somewhere that Travis' linework was really hard to ink for him,which no doubt led to Travis inking his own work...
dbzmaster789
dbzmaster789 - 9/11/2011, 7:31 AM
I though Wolverine didnt have any metal claws in the 40's?
NERO
NERO - 9/11/2011, 7:49 AM
I've loved this guy's stuff since I first saw it waaaay back in a WildCats special in the early 90's. His line work, characterizations, and technical drawing of machines and complex manmade objects are just amazing. Just google the guy's name and you'll have tons of examples of his work. I could look at his stuff all day.
AlternateNo4
AlternateNo4 - 9/11/2011, 7:52 AM
@dbzmaster789 thank you i was thinking that but i've never really read x-men so i didn't want to look stupid..
supernaturalfreak
supernaturalfreak - 9/11/2011, 8:04 AM
good GOD wolverine is short
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 9/11/2011, 8:05 AM
If you look close, Wolvie's wearing detachable hand claws.
NERO
NERO - 9/11/2011, 8:08 AM
@ Dbzmaster:

He's wearing Tekagi-shuko ("Tiger hook hands") a weapon in ninjutsu. The claws are attached to straps around the palm and wrist. You can see them better in the "Golden Age" drawing with Wolverine and Zealot from the WildCATs/X-Men crosover.
SoItGoes
SoItGoes - 9/11/2011, 9:06 AM
ah, god damn it that looks great.
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