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New Year - New post

2011-01-03T03:11:00.001-08:00

Happy new year! Been a while since getting back here but i may post a little more over the days on here. Blog is the new black, y'know?

And whilst we're at it - don't forget to order your copy of Mekano Turbo today!

MEKANO TURBO #355 - 2491 A.D. order here
90 pages of stories in the Mekano Turbo universe featuring the art of Ralph Niese, Alexis Ziritt, Matt Deans, Tristan Wilder, Sean Hartter with guest appearances of Matt Cossin, Liam Byrne & Alejandro Bruzzese and the rare to get Frans Boukas! Work it, brozzas, only a few something are left! And we need some more moola to get more of this crap out! Why? ---Because!

If you ever wondered to where i disappeared all time - - - here's the answer:

Also here some previewyness of things to come in 2011...

Special thanks to Julie, Alexis, Alejandro, Matt, Marc & Jesse for making 2010 a quite enjoyable year! 2011 can just be getting better!

Here it comes...

2010-07-19T13:13:00.000-07:00

CLICK ME (blogger is too stupid to post a 3 foot long picture ;D)

Here's a small excerpt from a project i'm working on to illustrate some (all i could gather) native american myths/stories/history and i try to weave it into an entertaining magazine format which is maybe happen to let you gather more interest in native american history too rather than just entertaining you.

This is the story of Wisakedjak and it's told by the Cree in the northeast and it's only one version of how he had created the world. I got more in the works and will show more...

ME & MY BLOG...

2009-07-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

...are not a good pair - we don´t visit us this often... uhm, yeah. after this last post there was some more maddling madness with the two guys known as Donald & Simon and they got their own little copy shop comic feature! woot!

here some previews!

Donald & Simon Month!!! yeah!

2009-03-18T07:14:00.000-07:00

The story arround Donald & Simon continues and some pretty great artists all over the world have done some great drawing and we at Hello Studios feel super honored!

1) Donald & Simon get featured in the overdue tribute book to germany´s profiliciest comic artist in the 50ies/60ies & 70ies - Hansrudi Wäscher! which will be released at the Munich comic festival in june 2009

2) is a drawing by dear friend Chris Zammit! hop over to his blog / DA and worship that fellow!

3) is a commisioned drawing by Afu Chan - visit him, too (a MUST!) - maybe you can snag a piece of him as well.

4) action figures, action figures. photos taken with interdimensional camera in Ralbuku Hadchi´s sculpture workshop, back in dimension X-a-990-42 - also called Mummybreaker World. strange, but that´s how it´s written...

more news are on the go - don´t forget you to buy a Noble Causes #39 or a Popgun vol. 3 (out 03-25-2009!!).

1st Prize goes to...

2008-09-26T15:52:00.000-07:00

WHAT KINDS OF AWESOME? ALL KINDS OF AWESOME!!! Me won the grand prize at PROJECT ROOFTOPS VAMPIRELLA REVAMP CONTEST! YO! But submitting to the contest is a win-win-sit in full, cause you might get to known of a lot of good artists within the comicuniverse - check for example the link to Maris on my link list! TOPS! Or even Joe!!! Well, i get back to my schedule... friday night, yup, i am like this U_U ...

Donald is back in ACTION!!!!

2008-09-25T14:46:00.000-07:00

THE WAIIITT!!! is a bit over and we discovered an old drafted masterpiece by Donald Hello´s artistic fingertips and Olaf Brill´s advanced mind of the fantastic writings! Absolutely digable! This eyecandied baby walks to your face in february´s outcoming POPGUN Vol.3 by ImageComics! Stay tuned through here www.popguncomics.com

Also a german version will get to you in a future issue of the infamous PERRY! Seems like next year is the year of HELLO! celebrating its 5th year(!) after the big reunion, we have some nicey nicey surpirses for you all!!! www.HELLOSTUDIOS.de might be the new hip a gogo website, where we´ll meet again, huh? Now take a rest and we´ll speak laters, ok? --D---

KITTY PANTERA

2008-04-22T08:46:00.000-07:00

From left to right: Dead Bear, Kitty Pantera and Shino, the zombie boy.
Some characters our trainee Bruno Orbit worked out in his time off the Donald&Simon manga, which will head in late 2009 your lusting readerheads.
Me and Simon briefed to get this figs as toys to your shelfs, so stay tuned!
your donnie

ROI DANTON

2008-01-13T17:19:00.001-08:00

HEY! Whoozathh? It's ROI DANTON, son of PERRY RHODAN, the first man on the moon and the super highest leader in command of the SOLAR EMPIRE! What else? Me and Simon don't care about third grade loosers, we take care of the best! ROI is a top A character from the PERRY RHODAN scifi-novel-series, is the pure oposit of his father. He is King over the FreeTraders, who live with their own rules and organisation beyond the SOLAR EMPIRE. they give a shit about - and that's all about stealing ressources behind the ass of Perry. Here is our take on a 8page backupstory, written by the gourgeous WIM WENDEMANN, who is the walking lexica for the PERYY RHODAN series, with artwork by me and letters and colors by Simon.
Hope you dig the process pics... your Donnie!

DONALD & SIMON return!!!

2008-01-13T17:08:00.000-08:00

Here we go agian! Back in the PNG#74, avaiable at trainstationshops in whole germany (most of it) at 21st january, 2008. The Gang comes here with an Originstory of the lovable MAKARONI PILLPAL and a TEASER of a gret TEAMUP with the AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS, the crazy comic-rockers MARK SMITH and DAN HIPP! Stay tuned till the next groovy pages!
the Don -

MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS

2007-11-12T21:58:00.000-08:00

Here is something from the old days. Ol´Donald me and Simon Oakey made this thingie for MIKE ALLRED´s new run of MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS published at IMAGE COMICS.
Slightly I can remember, that it was my take on pencils and colors and Simon doing the inks and type-stuff. yep, that were the old days, where we had our time machine and dimensional portal, getting ideas from talented 1990s creators and publish them in dimension X, where time was 20-30 years in the past there...

It´s been republished on the backcover of MMAC #7 (dec.) or #8(jan.), so grab your 2.99$ and get one issue! two, three, ALL!!!

your Donnie.

PNG #73 and more fan-art....

2007-07-31T04:31:00.000-07:00

Following pages were for the next issue of the "infamous" musicmagazine PERSONA NON GRATA #73, which has an comic-special to the issue, because a label jumped up from their special. So information between their bullpens is really sticky and information about that special arrived one week before deadline! I nearly led me 4 days time to start with working and finished it in a two-days-non-stop-run of pencils/inkinking/coloring/greyscaling/lettering. After sending those funny pages over to the art-director I was still in the mood to do more and fell in a long, long sleep....
Last pic is another one for the dudes over at imagecomicsforums.com.

TRIBUTE TO SAVAGE DRAGON(and more MP&RP)

2007-06-30T08:12:00.001-07:00

#1 - Another "What if"-cover starring Erik Larsen's SHE DRAGON, MALCOLM, ANGEL and Donald Hello's MAKKARONI PILLPAL, RAGAZZA PIPISTRELLO and HANS, the bubblegum-ghost. (friday 29.06.07)

#2 - "GONZO-ANNUAL#1" sooner or not to be coming. here to be noticed Bela Sobottke's GONZO-characters KILLERFROG KUNO, THE ZOMBIESLAYER, CLOE and mine DOCTOR MOONKNIGHT(a.k.a DOCTOR FIST) and CHINAMAN(a.k.a. MAKARONI PILLPAL). (march 2007)

#3-4 - some pieces i made for the MAKARONI P. & RAGAZZA P. story, to check mood and visualisation. (june 2006)

#5 - MAK, PIPI and SKIP, the monkey, riding an old BMW-ISETTA along to a party. (frebruary 2006)

PAINTINGS

2007-06-30T08:12:00.000-07:00

If it's get boring and I really got freetime, like it was last december, there i challenge with me and my skills to make some superrealistic pictures. maybe when they ran over the vent-table i make some new ones...

Ragazza Pipistrello & Makaroni Pillpal

2007-04-09T12:30:00.000-07:00

"Was passiert, wenn ich dich wiedersehe?"
(what happens, when i see you again?) is the worktitle for my longest project ever.
Now after 4 years searching, watching, sketching and living through, i gonna start now making it to some pages. I had already 4 pages for the swiss-comic-competion "fumetto", but now looking on them, i see, why i didn`t scored in the top five. Now, back to work...

Fantastic

2007-01-02T13:13:00.000-08:00

BENJAMIN GRIMM, THE THING

Wow, that was hard work, but without going mad, i made it in two hours, managing all that rockstuff with a silent breath and a cup of coffee, already on the run to last years newyearsparty! Also this time using my PENTEL BRUSHPEN, Photoshop and its cool DRY BRUSHES LIBRARY! Damn useful stuff.
SHE HULK
This one, takin´the same tools, i made back in june 2006.

NewYearsMarvelMoods....

2007-01-02T12:46:00.000-08:00

Using a PENTEL-brush-pen, Adobe Photoshop for colouring and Adobe Illustrator for the letters
Hey surfacewellers! I appreciate a happy new year for all of you and stuff like that... and here i got more stuff for you- now its even finished. First is little sketch i made on A4 with a group around the young X-MEN called BEAK, now imagined in his first issue! The drawing was made in june, i rememeber, and on that damn compu-colouring i´ve gone mad, so i choosed the cool pre-nineties-colouring, which i think looks way better now.

till next time, dear HELLOS.
your DONALD HELLO.