Chris Kalb

Chris Kalb is Age of Aces’ Art Director. He acted as the sole designer on the Spider, Captain Babyface and Sheridan Doome books, and has consulted on the others. Probably his favorite aspect of the job is designing new old-looking logos for great aviation characters who never had their own magazine titles.

Chris has been known in pulp circles for years for his hero pulp websites, like The 86th Floor and The Spider Returns. But out in the real world he is a freelance designer and illustrator. For many years he was the Art Director of SCI FI magazine.

Over the years he’s illustrated such books as ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics by Gavin Edwards (Fireside), Up Your [SAT] Score (Workman), and Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals For Kids, a New York Times Bestseller in 2004. Chris continues to work with Rachael on Everyday With Rachael Ray magazine and with the 2008 cookbook Yum-o!

More years ago than he cares to mention, Chris’ comic strip in the Yale Daily News won him Scripps-Howard’s Charles M. Schulz Award for the nation’s most promising college cartoonist. Has he fulfilled that promise? Check out his newest comics at breakupgirl.net.