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About Michael Cherkas

Michael Cherkas

Artist

Canada

Adventure/Detective, Author’s Graphic Novel, Historic, Sociopolitical, Sci-Fi

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Michael Cherkas has worked as a graphic designer, art director, cartoonist and illustrator for over 40 years. His comic book work includes The Silent Invasion, The Purple Ray, both with Larry Hancock, and The New Frontier, with John Sabljic. His most recent graphic novel is Red Harvest, which is set in Soviet Ukraine during the Holodomor—Stalin’s terror-famine which devastated that country in 1932–33. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Toronto.

Books

Suburban Nightmares – Union City Press, 2024
Red Harvest – NBM Graphic Novels, 2023
The Silent Invasion (4 books) / L'Invasion Silencieuse – NBM Publishing, 2018-2021 / Éditions Delcourt, 2020

Guest at MCAF

2024