BOOKS Dedicated Drawings 2024-25 (II)

 

            Here you have a selection of the dedications made during the recent festival tour in French Brittany: Erquy en Bulles and Quai des Bulles / St Malo

         The dedicated drawings are made on copies of my artbooks Legendary Heroes and The Super Villains. And what you see here is a small summary of the copies that I have dedicated during the tour.

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         Voici une sélection des dédicaces réalisées lors de la récente tournée des festivals en Bretagne: Erquy en Bulles et Quai des Bulles / St Malo.

          Les dessins dédicacés sont réalisés sur des exemplaires de mes artbooks Legendary Heroes et The Super Villains. Et ce que vous voyez ici est un petit résumé des exemplaires que j'ai dédicacés lors de la tournée.

                                      

             https://ideesplus.fr/beaux-livres/artbooks/

BOOKS Dedicated Drawings 2024-25 (I)

 

          Some very special dedications recently made on copies of my new artbook The Super Villains and other books of mine.

        Here you have Madelyne Pryor the Goblin Queen and this beautiful Dragon in two copies of the Classic Edition of my previous artbook Legendary Heroes

          

             Here you have Harpya, drawn as a dedication in volume 3 of my French series Le Chant des Elfes

           This other dedication made on a copy of the graphic novel Stalag X

            Here is this drawing made in the compilation album of my Broadway series from the 90s.

        

         And this dedication made in the Seffana Vampirique illustration portfolio.

QUEEN OF HELL: INITIUM Comic Series Kickstarter

 

          Here I present to you the latest Kickstarter campaign organized by my partners in crime the American heavy metal band A Sound of Thunder :

      https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asoundofthunder/queen-of-hell

      Cecilia was born to serve the demon lord Udoroth. Heaven tried to turn Cecilia against her diabolical nature. But neither side considered how strong-willed Cecilia can be! Once she learns the truth about herself, and about those she thought she knew best, all bets are off. Will Cecilia help Udoroth conquer Heaven? Will she aid the Angelic forces to defeat evil? Or will she forge her own path of destruction...as the Queen of Hell?! 

       Queen of Hell: Initium is a four-issue horror-fantasy adventure comic series consisting of 92 total story pages (22 pages per issues #1-#3 and 26 pages in #4) and based on the music of metal band A Sound of Thunder.

       I have been working on this project for a long time, this is our formidable team

     Writer/Story - Rafer Roberts

     Artist - Mike Ratera 

    Colorist - Diego L. Parada (#1 & #3)

    Colorist - Max (#2 & #4)

    Lettereer - Crank!

    Editor/Story - Josh Schwartz (A Sound of Thunder)

    Creator/Story - Nina Osegueda (A Sound of Thunder)

    COVER ARTISTS

Queen of Hell: Initium #1-#4 features covers by the following artists:

    Dusan Markovic ( #1-#4 ) Joseph Schmalke - Bo Bradshaw - Paulina Ganucheau - Rachel Perciphone

       The Queen of Hell: Initium campaign is live on Kickstarter now and ends October 26th. You still have time to participate, back in here:

   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asoundofthunder/queen-of-hell      

     I'll soon be showing you the character designs and previews of the Queen of Hell pages. We will also soon have a French-language edition with my publisher Idées Plus, here you can see some previews of this edition::

    https://ideesplus.fr/produit/la-reine-de-lenfer/

     

       

CONAN - El Rincón del Cimmerio

 

        Aquí podéis ver estos 2 clips que me ha hecho Justo Poveda para presentar mi trabajo con el personaje Conan el Bárbaro para Marvel Italia y Planeta a finales de los 90, en el directo La Espada Salvaje de Conan volumen III "Conan il Conquistatore" en su canal YouTube El Rincón del Cimmerio.

          El primer clip Homenaje a Mike Ratera presenta un recorrido por mi carrera artística, desde los 80 hasta la actualidad: 

         

           El segundo clip El Arte de Conan de Mike Ratera es una selección de dibujos y páginas Conan desde finales de los 90 hasta ahora:

                                

      Y aquí tenéis el programa entero en El Rincón del Cimmerio:

      

 

ARTBOOKS Dedicated Drawings 2023-24 (IV)

 

             Some very special dedications recently made on copies of my new artbook The Super Villains and other books of mine. They are drawings dedicated to collaborators who have participated in these works. 

         Here you have this Baron Harkonnen for the great Kevin J. Anderson, who wrote the preface to my artbook The Super Villains. Kevin has continued the Dune literary saga for more than 20 years together with Brian Herbert. 

         Here is his website: https://wordfire.com/

        

            

               This drawing of the character Midna from the Zelda universe is for Niina Xan, who has worked on the color of many of the illustrations for The Super Villains. In addition to being a colorist, Niina is also a illustrator and creator of her own universe. 

          You can see her work here:  https://www.deviantart.com/niina-xan

  

                 This Jabba drawing is for Nuria Sayago, another of my colorists on The Super Villains. Nuria has a long career as a colorist in the Franco-Belgian market. 

           Here you can see the series in which she has worked: 

https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-30795-BD-Sayago-Nuria.html

                This other copy of The Super Villains is dedicated to the model Seffy Moon, who has been collaborating with me for a long time on illustrations and covers. 

            Here you can learn more about our collaborations:

               https://mikeratera.blogspot.com/p/seffy-moon-art.html

               Seffy Moon is also represented in this drawing for my colorist Nuria Sayago, made in the Seffana Vampirique Portfolio where both participated. 

       Here you can see the Seffana Vampirique portfolio:

          https://ideesplus.fr/produit/seffana-vampirique/

               This other drawing is also for Nuria Sayago, who participated as a colorist in the special edition Kabur the Red Star, published by Dark Dragon Books in Holland.

          Here you can learn more about this edition:

           https://mikeratera.blogspot.com/2014/02/kabur-red-star.html

                 And another dedication to Nuria Sayago in the Dutch edition of another book of mine: Le Chant des Elfes series previously published in France, also published in Holland with Dark Dragon Books.

           Here you can learn more about this Limited Edition:

     https://mikeratera.blogspot.com/2012/01/le-chant-des-elfes-limited-edition.html

STAR WARS DAY Andenne

 

This May 4th I had the honor of participating in Star Wars Day organized by This May 4th I had the honor of participating in Star Wars Day organized by my friends from La Grande Ourse in Andenne (Belgium). 

Here you can see my poster for the event, this Darth Vader illustration that I made with the color of Nuria Sayago.

The dedication session took place at the Atomik Strip bookstore in Andenne. I have dedicated my artbooks Legendary Heroes and The Super Villains, both published in France with my publisher Idées Plus. 

Here you can learn more about these artbooks:

https://ideesplus.fr/beaux-livres/artbooks/

      Here you can see Star Wars drawings made for direct sale to my Belgian clients. And also some photos of the cosplay animations from this weekend in Andenne.