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.
You can see their portfolio here: Shel Kahn’s Portfolio
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.
Select clients include:
Videogames
- A Sharp Games
- Bloom Digital
- Komi Games Inc.
- KO_OP
- Numizmatic Games
- Peculiar Path Games
- Pillow Fight
- Rocket 5 Studios
Comics
- 1001 Knights
- Believe, Ltd.
- Decibel
Tabletop Games
- Hit Point Press
- Chaosium
- Pelgrane Press
- Penguin King Games
- Worlds Without Master
Museums
- Aga Khan Museum
- Royal Ontario Museum
Education
- Brock University
- DMG
- George Brown College
- The Hand Eye Society
- MtMCAAD
- OCADU
- OSF Alternative School, TDSB
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
- Adin and the Dead Man’s Sword
- Adin and the Hermit
- Lomy in the Abyss
- The Listening Station
- Wolf Neighbours
Zines
- Adventurers
- Landscape Paintings
- Resonant Realms
- Artifacts
- Warp Riders
Art Direction
- Long Story 2
- Astronomics
- project from Peculiar Path Games
- Spirits and Sparks
Visual Development
- Dragon Care Tarot
- project from Komi Games
- project from KO_OP Games
- project from Numizmatic Games
- Pillar of Fire
- Light Fingers
- Kitty Disastrous
- Phantom PI
- Cover-All
Comics
- Blood of the Paladin
- Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest
- 1001 Knights
Writing
- Rolled and Told
- Perilous Almanacs
- module for Trophy Gold
- module for Drama System
- module for Runequest
llustration
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
Card Art
- For the Queen
- Twilight Arcana
- Project DARK
- Jester Deck
Maps
- Ryne
- Drinking Quest
Hand Lettering
- Astronomics
- Wolfspell
- Light Fingers
- Slayer Cake
- Project DARK
Illustration cont.
Original Art
- OSF Skateboard Auction
- Star-Crossed
- Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
- Nerdette
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
- Drama System
- Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
- Down Darker Trails
- Trouble for Hire
- Puffed Shoggoths
- Going Home Club
- Ars Magica
- Fight!
- Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest
- Vampire : Dark Ages
- Worlds Without Master
- Goblin Quest
- Big Bads