Dan Schkade

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[SHKAH-dee] — Eisner and Ringo award-nominated cartoonist (FLASH GORDON, LAVENDER JACK, THE SPIRIT, etc) He/him, fair condition https://linktr.ee/danschkade

Design Sketch for Ming's armor in the latest FLASH GORDON storyline. His sword would eventually be swapped out for something more Roman and his tunic lengthened.
A moderate Check Success
A Disco Elysium Rhetoric check
Doc Samson, gamma-powered super-psychiatrist, a large jacked man with long green hair.
The elderly, dementia-stricken King Vultus (father of Prince Vultan and figurehead ruler emeritus of the Hawkmen) rages at Dale Arden, mistaking her for his son, in this Flash Gordon strip written and drawn by Dan Schkade
General Ming faces down the young Prince Vultus in this Flash Gordon strip drawn by Sandy Jarrell with a script by Dan Schkade
Ming the Merciless outlines Queen Fria's leadership qualities in this excerpt from a 2026 FLASH GORDON strip
Adrane from FLASH GORDON puts on her armor.
FLASH GORDON's Prince Vultan holds up his warhammer as he bellows for his fellow Hawkmen to dive into the fray.
Flash Gordon and Prince Thun confront the sacred dragon Sulpha in this 1934 Alex Raymond strip.
The 90s Conduit Superman figure
A physical copy of LAVENDER JACK VOL. 1
CG Curt Connors transforms into the Lizard
The cover to SPIDER-MAN: QUALITY OF LIFE, featuring a CG Webslinger
A physical copy of The Hero Initiative's GIANT-SIZE X-MEN 100 PROJECT hardcover.
Track art for Childish Gambino and Chance the Rapper's 'The Worst Guys'
Empress Aura from my FLASH GORDON strips
Four major FLASH GORDON villains -- Ming the Merciless, the rulers of the Shark Men and the Valkrians, and the Witch-Queen Azura
Cover to this year's MARVEL SWIMSUIT SPECIAL, featuring crime fighting tens in swimwear
Screenshot of the final eBay listing for my GIANT-SIZE X-MEN 100 PROJECT sketch cover, which raised $357.00 for the Hero Initiative.
The 6/28/26 FLASH GORDON Sunday strip: Flash and Bok land on Sky City, where they are immediately met with a violent welcome from the Hawkmen and their Frigian occupiers. Flash and Bok fight them off with the aid of Adrane, happy to fight her fellow Hawks on her boys' behalf. Vultan shows up to stop the fracas, escorting Flash to the Royal Aerie to meet with Queen Fria.
Mary Kolache Esq, Attorney Bizarre, takes on the case of a billionaire who enriches himself by forcing other people to become him, if you can believe it
Cover to LAVENDER JACK VOLUME 2
A sketch of Flash Gordon and Bok, penciled and inked by Emmett Graham and colored by me
Page from Stan Sakai's USAGI YOJIMO in which rabbit samurai Usagi takes on a throng of bandits
A clipping from a 1935 New York American, which includes a BRINGING UP FATHER strip
An original clipping of the June 16th 1935 FLASH GORDON strip by Alex Raymond, depicting an army of Hawkmen descending on the forces of Kira.
Flash Gordon, as drawn by me in today's new FLASH GORDON strip
Dylan Todd's incredible logo for LAVENDER JACK
Kevin Nowlan's all-time great logo for HELLBOY
Wolverine, puffing away on a cigar, running in costume
A sketch cover I drew featuring Colossus for the Hero Initiative's GIANT-SIZE X-MEN 100 PROJECT
Art by Hermann Mejia from a story by Brockton McKinney featuring an deranged cutie covered head to toe in Mad Magazine tattoos, up to an including a MAD logo straight across her face
Screencap of a twitter post from Jenny Blake reading: "THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: Lavender Jack by Dan Schkade and Jenn Manley Lee. Queer comics are among the most interesting stories in recent years. This adventure mystery of a dashing vigilante seeking justice in a corrupt city-state is one of the best. 5-1-26"
A pitch cover for a graphic novel adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOS AMIGOS FIASCO!
Hermes Pan at a chalkboard, outlining dance steps for a smiling Fred Astaire
Short comic from 2022: "Why Ben Affleck is the Best Batman Ever"
A 9-panel grid with sketches of the live-action cinematic Batmen: Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Robert Pattinson, and the Batman serials' Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery
BATMAN is such a shaggy, lumpy, largely bad movie but then BATMAN RETURNS is like, a perfect film, just some real fascinating sophomore shine from the ol’ Burtster
two youtube recommendations, each containing a variant of the phrase "let him cook"
Ming, age 25, a ragged soldier in sci-fi roman century-style armor.
The cover to LAVENDER JACK VOL. 2 by me and Jenn Manley Lee, out in the fall from Dark Horse Comics
Matt Wagner cover to SAINT JOHN, interiors drawn and co-written by me
Matt Wagner cover for BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN
A Map of Mongo
Moon Knight stands atop a glass pyramid as off-screen viewers go "Aw hell yeah, nice" and "cool shot"
My design for a Magic Man from a century ago, a hooded blue-skinned alchemist holding a smoking circular potion bomb.
Moon Knight, riddled with wounds: "I feel GREAT. I woke UP like this. YOU'RE the nerds 'bout to come down with a case of"
Early Ditko-style creepy Spider-Man skitters down a wall muttering the word "spider" over and over
Dr Fate and Inza by Sandy Jarrell
Star Wars bounty hunter and Han Solo-hater Dengar
Flash and Bok traverse the eerie, timespace-folding tunnel known as The Vein. From a diverging tunnel, a shadowed figure approaches with a long knife in hand.
Half of a Flash Gordon Sunday strip, in which a Lizardman narrates an attack from the giant man-eating cave lizard, The Komok.
Indiana Republican Jefferson Shreve throws up a stiff arm in the thumbnail of his latest ad
Two panels from my FLASH GORDON strip (2/6/25) in which the pleasantly buzzed Half-Lion girl Dova daces on top of an aircycle while Dale and some other Lion Men clap along. Meanwhile, Flash sits with the sharkwoman Velle, who's miffed at the idea that being a land person means having to dace. He tells her she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to -- her life is her own.
Panels from the FLASH GORDON daily strip, drawn by Sandy Jarrell, featuring the blue barbarians known as the Tusk Men
My models for the Tusk Men from FLASH GORDON, bearded blue barbarians in various configurations of leather armor.