Shel Kahn is an artist whose work spans painting, sculpting, making digital and tabletop games, comics, education, and community organizing.
They have worked with a range of publishers on pen and paper, console, mobile and PC games; created fantasy and memoir comics; produced public art installations; and they have presented and taught at professional conferences, highschools, colleges and universities.
Kahn’s current work includes art directing indie videogames with Bloom Digital.
You can reach them by email at shel@portablecity.net
They publish webcomics and writing on their Stories website.
Find their detailed CV on LinkedIn.
personal blog:
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one year of arm stuff – part 9 – accessibility is a thing though! what about adaptive devices?
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one year of arm stuff – part 8 – okay but ARM recovery—
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one year of arm stuff – part 7 – no, really, what has recovery been like?
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one year of arm stuff – part 6 – recovery
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one year of arm stuff – part 5 – wait, I have wrist pain/finger weakness/tingling in my hands too! what if…?
Select clients include:
Videogames
- Numizmatic Games
- Peculiar Path Games
- KO_OP Games
- Komi Games Inc.
- Rocket 5 Studios
- A Sharp Games
Comics
- Believe, Ltd.
- Decibel
- 1001 Knights
Tabletop Games
- Penguin King Games
- Hit Point Press
- Chaosium
- Worlds Without Master
- Pelgrane Press
Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Aga Khan Museum
Education
- DMG
- The Hand Eye Society
- Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School, TDSB
- George Brown College
- MtMCAAD
- OCADU
- Brock University
CV of Publications and Projects:
Personal Projects
Maps
- The Realm of the River Dragon
- Seven Odd Islands
- The Tower of the Forest Wizard
- Cozy Land (collaboration with Evlyn Moreau)
Tabletop RPG Modules
- Keep on the Shining Isle
- The Corruption of Pelursk
- The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra
Comics
- By Crom!
- Orin and the Dead Man’s Sword
- Lomy in the Abyss
- Wolf Neighbours
Zines
- Adventurers
- Resonant Realms
- Artifacts
- Warp Riders
Art Direction
- Long Story 2
- Astronomics
- unannounced project from Peculiar Path Games
- Spirits and Sparks
Visual Development
- Dragon Care Tarot
- unannounced project from Komi Games
- unannounced project from KO_OP Games
- unannounced project from Numizmatic
- Pillar of Fire
- Light Fingers
- Kitty Disastrous
- Phantom PI
- Cover-All
Freelance Comics
- Blood of the Paladin
- Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest
- 1001 Knights
Freelance Writing
- Rolled and Told
- Perilous Almanacs
- unannounced module for Trophy Gold
- unannounced module for Drama System
- unannounced module for Runequest
Freelance Illustration
Whole Projects
- The Yellow King RPG: Paris
- Gods, Memes and Monsters
Cover / Promo Art
- Necronautilus
- Stars of the North
- The Sugar House
- Witchblood
- Level Eater
- Masks of the Mummy Kings
- Long Winter
Original Art
- OSF Skateboard Auction
- Star-Crossed
- Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
- Nerdette
Card Art
- For the Queen
- Twilight Arcana
- Project DARK
Maps
- Ryne
- Drinking Quest
Hand Lettering
- Astronomics
- Wolfspell
- Light Fingers
- Slayer Cake
- Project DARK
Freelance Illustration cont.
Interior Art
- Six Ages
- The Gaean Reach
- Dreamhounds of Paris
- Rolled & Told
- RuneQuest
- Walk Among the Dead
- Strange Horizons
- WisCon
- Common Ground
- The Warren
- Pretending to Grownup
- Cerebos
- The Lion and the Aardvark
- Blood on the Snow
- 13th Age Glorantha
- Perilous Almanac
- Cavaliers of Mars
- Hillfolk
- Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
- Down Darker Trails
- Trouble for Hire
- Puffed Shoggoths
- Going Home Club
- Ars Magica
- Fight!
- Tribute to Judas Priest
- Vampire : Dark Ages
- Worlds Without Master
- Goblin Quest
- Big Bads