Not sure if I have ever mentioned it on it on this blog (quick googling shows that indeed I had), but Robert Adler is among my two favourite Polish comic artists, the other one being Michał Śledziński aka MrHerring. Together with Tobiasz Piątkowski, Adler was co-author and artist behind two extremely funny and witty - not to mention well drawn - cyberpunk graphic novels, Breakoff and Overload (in the links you have sample pages, should you be curious how it looks inside):
These two graphic novels were supposed to be a beginning of a series called Status7, unfortunately there were only two of them published and the series got cancelled. As MrHerring will explain to you, should you ask him, the life of a comics creator in Poland is not a piece of cake and the market is difficult to make living of. Hence, Adler moved to work for some marketing agency as a storyboard maker (as far as I know), something that most comic authors in Poland do at some point - which usually comes when they are hungry and need to pay rent for last three months.
The only comic-related activity that Adler would dabble in was occasional images on his blog and a number short strips on Boli Blog - be warned though, it is not safe for work, as the author likes to draw naked ladies and sexual intercourses a lot, not that I complain, mind you. While most comics are in Polish, there are some that don't require any reading skills because there is no text at all in them, some that are easy to understand without explicit Polish knowledge just by a little deduction (the strip with airport guards holding someone at gunpoint and shouting into their walkie-talkie "f**k, do repeat, 'cause you're breakin' up: tourists or terrorists?") and as for some, well, I guess you will have to live without knowing why they are funny.
The good news that I have learnt just today is that Robert Adler will come back with nothing less than a comic book to be published in United States! What's more, this is going to be a cyberpunk science-fiction story taking place in Blade Runner universe. Supposedly, this started when Bryce Carlson of Boom Studios noticed Adler's work on his blog. According to this webpage, the comic in question will be titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Dust to Dust" and Robert Adler is credited as the artist.
What can I say, this is truly great news! I always hoped that the duo (Adler and Piątkowski) would be noticed by the international comic world, be it in France or United States market, because they deserved it. So far Adler got scooped, hopefully others will follow. My sincere congratulations, Robert!
These two graphic novels were supposed to be a beginning of a series called Status7, unfortunately there were only two of them published and the series got cancelled. As MrHerring will explain to you, should you ask him, the life of a comics creator in Poland is not a piece of cake and the market is difficult to make living of. Hence, Adler moved to work for some marketing agency as a storyboard maker (as far as I know), something that most comic authors in Poland do at some point - which usually comes when they are hungry and need to pay rent for last three months.
The only comic-related activity that Adler would dabble in was occasional images on his blog and a number short strips on Boli Blog - be warned though, it is not safe for work, as the author likes to draw naked ladies and sexual intercourses a lot, not that I complain, mind you. While most comics are in Polish, there are some that don't require any reading skills because there is no text at all in them, some that are easy to understand without explicit Polish knowledge just by a little deduction (the strip with airport guards holding someone at gunpoint and shouting into their walkie-talkie "f**k, do repeat, 'cause you're breakin' up: tourists or terrorists?") and as for some, well, I guess you will have to live without knowing why they are funny.
The good news that I have learnt just today is that Robert Adler will come back with nothing less than a comic book to be published in United States! What's more, this is going to be a cyberpunk science-fiction story taking place in Blade Runner universe. Supposedly, this started when Bryce Carlson of Boom Studios noticed Adler's work on his blog. According to this webpage, the comic in question will be titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Dust to Dust" and Robert Adler is credited as the artist.
What can I say, this is truly great news! I always hoped that the duo (Adler and Piątkowski) would be noticed by the international comic world, be it in France or United States market, because they deserved it. So far Adler got scooped, hopefully others will follow. My sincere congratulations, Robert!
