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Man of Steel – “Fate of Your Planet” Official Trailer
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsIn theaters June 14th. From Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures comes “Man of Steel”, starring Henry Cavill, directed by Zach...
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MARVEL’S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Trailer
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsThe Biggest Heroes. The Biggest Threats. The Biggest Stakes! It’s the most anticipated new animated series to launch this...
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WOLVERINE: ORIGIN DVD Hits Stores on July 9
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsMARVEL KNIGHTS ANIMATION PRESENTS WOLVERINE: ORIGIN This summer, Marvel fans will learn the secret history of WOLVERINE that changed the...
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Iron Man Stays in First Place at Box Office With $72.5 Million
Posted on May 12, 2013 | No CommentsIron Man finished its second weekend in theater in the same place that it was last week, in first place....
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First Look at THE WALKING DEAD Season 4
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No CommentsAMC released today a First Look photo from “The Walking Dead” Season 4, featuring Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes back...
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THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADÈLE BLANC-SEC Coming to Blu-ray and DVD on Aug 13
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No CommentsThis summer, let your imagination run free. Journey into an awe-inspiring world of action fantasy and visual wonder with popular...
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VIVA PICTURES Scratches Up All U.S. Rights To Top Cat: The Movie Based On The Highly-Popular 1960s Cartoon Series!
Posted on May 9, 2013 | No CommentsVIVA PICTURES SCRATCHES UP ALL U.S. RIGHTS TO TOP CAT: THE MOVIE BASED ON THE HIGHLY-POPULAR 1960’s CARTOON SERIES ...
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Star Trek Into Darkness Movie Magazine
Posted on May 7, 2013 | No CommentsStar Trek Magazine #45, on sale now, is your 148-page essential guide to Star Trek Into Darkness! The long awaited,...
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Teen Titans Go – S1E1 Review
Posted on May 6, 2013 | No CommentsAfter the original Teen Titans cartoon was cancelled in 2006 fans have been waiting for its return as rumor after...
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Iron Man Conquers Box Office With $175 Million Opening Weekend
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis weekend saw the Marvel Comics era of box office dominance continue as the third installment of the Iron Man...
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Digital Love
Some new digital art I created. I’m most happy with my digital art when I let go and just let…
Sketch Cover Madness
Many of sketch covers over the last month or so. I have so much fun doing these. I feel like…
FREE Artbook
http://karlaltstaetter.storenvy.com/If you order a commission through my shopping site before Monday the Dec 17th I’ll include a FREE signed copy…
Letter to Emily White
A must read for all artists. It’s focus is on musicians and downloading music…but the idea of global corporations looking…
Taskmaster Commission Inked
I always loved the design and the powers of the Taskmaster. Here are the rough pencils and the inks of…
Long Beach Comic Con Sketches
I had a great time at LBCC this past weekend. Here is a selection of sketches I did at the…
Emerald City Blues 04 Begins
For those of you that have been following my work already know about my web/print series Emerald City Blues. Emerald…
Launch Discount Code
For all my friends I put a special discount code for the launch of the site. Details below! Use the…
Lost Treasures 02/Art Land Launch!
After much this and that I’ve finally got my online store up and running. Along with the store I’ve put…
Drizzt Do’Urden Alt Sketch
I did this sketch at the same time as the sketch I posted yesterday. Getting my drawing legs back.
Drizzt Do’Urden Sketch
Drizzt Do’Urden from Forgotten Realms. This is the first of two sketches. More soon.
Blank Sketchbooks Beware
Here are two free sketches I did at the Las Vegas Comic Expo. I see a blank sketchbook and I…
Las Vegas Comic Expo Wrap Up
I had a fantastic time at the Las Vegas Comic Expo this past weekend. I was jam packed all weekend…
Vegas Baby
Up next Las Vegas Comic Expo on the 29th and 30th Las Vegas Expo I’ll have some new prints. “Sucker Punch” and…
Tonight We Are Young
Here is a short story I wrote and drew based on the song Tonight We Are Young by FUN. I…
5 Inking Tips
I get asked a lot about what people should use to do traditional inking. Traditionally inkers in comics use the…
Custom Life
Even though I’ve been going to Anime Expo for years I’m still blown away by the dedication the fans have…
What About Comics?
Now that Avengers has landed and Batman and Spider-Man are close behind in the summer movie schedule the question always…
Free Comic Book Day 2012
Good times at the Free Comic Book Day event at The Comic Bug. As a comic creator I try and…
Ultimate Ultimate Avengers
For those of you that don’t want to read any spoilers for the Avengers then I’ll give you time to…
Moebius Mead.
Today I was fortunate to see the work of one my artistic heroes Syd Mead at his Progressions show at…
Crowd Sourced IP
Art and the online world seem to walk hand and hand. The web is content driven and where does content…
Intent to Ramble
Over the years I’ve gotten used to showing my work to other people. Sometimes it’s to clients other times it’s…
Batman Dark Knight Commission
Here is an example of the progression of a piece I did as a commission. From pencils to finished tones….
The Vapor and Delta
Here are some videos of a toy I did the visual development for and helped product develop. It’s an air…
Star Wars / Hot Wheels / McDonalds Storyboards
Here is a series of commercials I did storyboards for. I did the entire job straight through almost 24 hours….
Meet Me at The Comic Bug
Hi All, If you live in the LA area and have a burning desire to shake my hand and perhaps…
Me2 Video and review
I just posted a video I put together for Me2 showing off artwork from book one. You can also read…
Amazing Arizona Comic Con PM
I’ve been reading a lot about app developers who run postmortems on the build and launch of their apps. This…










