One of my favorite artists, Travis Charest, seems to have fallen off the
face of the planet. Does the Professor know what, if anything, he has worked on since that Scott Lobdell Wildcats collaboration?
Googling “Travis Charest” tells the Professor that, first of all, his name is pronounced “Travis Sha-RAY,” which does not inspire confidence in the Professor’s analytical abilities, considering that he’s always pronounced it “Sha-REST.” The quickest answer to your question, though, is found in Charest’s Wikipedia entry, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Charest :
“In April 2000, Charest moved to Paris to begin work on a Metabarons graphic novel. With plans to paint the entire graphic novel, the progress on the book went much more slowly than Charest had anticipated. In 2007, Charest was released from the Metabarons: Dreamshifters book after producing only 30 pages in the 7 years.[citation needed] Humanoid Publishing has named Serbian artist Zoran Janjetov, who previously worked in the same Alexandro Jodorowsky “Incal” universe on “John Defaul” and “Technopriests”, to complete the art chores for the project.
Charest is now a resident of the United States and working for Marvel Comics, initially providing only cover art for David Morell’s Captain America: The Chosen mini-series. He has also been running the strip Spacegirl on his MSN group, which he is looking into eventually being collected into a printed volume.”
So, he hasn’t been doing too much, apparently, but he’s starting to do more. The link to his new online Spacegirl art at
http://groups.msn.com/travischarest/spacegirlcomic.msnw
is pretty cool, and probably represents his newest work.
(Note that the Professor presents links the old-fashioned way, so that you have to type them into the browser yourself to use them. So, work a little: it won’t do you any harm. Darned kids with their htmls and flashy colors and cheap shortcuts…. )
