Mike Krahulik

Mike Krahulik is the artist from the popular webcomic Penny Arcade. He goes by the online moniker "John Gabriel" or "Gabe". Krahulik's unique drawing style can also be recognized in promotional comics he has created for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and many other video games. For some reason, finding a picture of the man is very difficult, but he does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart.

Krahulik's style has changed (and, it can be argued, improved) dramatically since he began drawing Penny Arcade in 1998. Many older comics thus look visibly different from the strips of today.

When not working on their comic, Krahulik and his partner Jerry Holkins (AKA "Tycho Brahe") play video games and attend gaming conferences and events.

He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Kara, to whom he proposed in a special edition of Penny Arcade in 1999. On September 9, 2004, he and his wife became parents to a son, Gabriel Aiden Krahulik.

In addition to the artwork on the comic strip and for video game promotions, Krahulik also provided the illustrations for the cover of the book "Agent to the Stars" by John Scalzi [1].

Krahulik has been in press online, thanks to hostile phone calls from Jack Thompson regarding an Email Krahulik had sent. The email was in response to an offer Thompson had made to video game creators, about creating an ultra-violent game based on a man whose son was murdered by a video game influenced teen. Thompson offered them $10,000 towards charity. Krahulik, in the email, said that he and fellow gamers had raised about half a million dollars towards charity. According to Krahulik, "Jack actually just called and screamed at me for a couple minutes. He said if I email him again I will 'regret it'. What a violent man."

External links

• An early example of his work
• A more recent creation.
• An article containing a reference to Krahulik and Thompson.