Christopher Moeller

I was born in Ithaca, NY and currently live in Pittsburgh, PA.  I earned a BFA in painting from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Illustrations from Syracuse University.  I'm a writer and painter, specializing in fully-painted graphic novels. My signature creation is the Iron Empires science-fiction universe, comprised of two fully-painted graphic novels -- Faith Conquers and Sheva's War, a short story in Dark Horse Presents, and a second in the anthology Negative Burn. In 2006, an Iron Empires role-playing game was published, called Burning Empires. I made my professional debut in 1991 writing and painting Innovation Comic's Rocketman: King of the Rocketmen.  I followed that up with a comic run of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, also from Innovation, for which I provided artwork and a number of cover illustrations. I moved to Dark Horse Comics in 1994, writing and painting the first of the Iron Empires graphic novels (at that time called Shadow Empires), Faith Conquers, as well as the short story The Passage in Dark Horse Presents, #79-81. I illustrated Andrew Vachss' short story Treatment, which was included in Vachss' 2002 graphics-adapted collection, Hard Looks. I also did James Bond covers, a number of Star Wars covers, and a "pop-up" Star Wars book called Battle of the Bounty-Hunters. In 1998, I wrote and painted my second Iron Empires graphic novel, Sheva's War, for the short-lived Science Fiction imprint of DC Comics, Helix. That was followed by a run of covers for DC's Batman monthly comic book Shadow of the Bat. In 2000, I wrote and painted the graphic novel JLA: A League of One.  Did an extended run of covers for the Vertigo monthly comic book Lucifer. In 2005, wrote and painted the graphic novel JLA Classified: Cold Steel. I've worked in the gaming industry in parallel with my comics work doing numerous illustrations for White Wolf Games, including covers for the Aberrant game books and miniatures games.  My more recent work includes more than 100 illustrations for the trading card games Magic: the Gathering and the World of Warcraft.  I've also done the packaging art for the Axis and Allies Miniatures game.