Chuck Whelon (born 1969) is a British, internationally published author and cartoonist, based in

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, United States.

Career

Chuck Whelon is the creator, artist and co-writer of the long-running humorous fantasy webcomic serial ''Pewfell'', which originally appeared online on

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, and later became available for free on

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, and ComicFury. Whelon has illustrated a series of search & find titles for Buster Books, including 'Where's the Penguin?', 'Where's Santa?' and 'The Great Fairy Tale Search', all of which have been translated into multiple languages. He is the author and illustrator of a large variety of children's puzzle and activity books for Dover Publications, including the "What to Doodle?" series. Whelon designed and illustrated the comic boardgame "Legitimacy" published by Minion Games. Whelon has also illustrated a number of other boardgames for Minion, including ''Those Pesky Humans'', ''Grave Business'', 'Tahiti', ''Nile'', and ''Battle Merchants''. Since 2012 Whelon has written and drawn the monthly "Dr. Dig" comic strip for Cricket Media Group's 'Dig' magazine. Whelon is the cartoonist for Goodman Game's '

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' Role Playing Game. Whelon has also worked as an Art Director for

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, an illustrator, Flash developer and production artist. Whelon was born and raised in

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, England. He is a member of the

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and the

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. He is represented by the Beehive Illustration Agency. He is the brother to Emily Jordan. Whelon's current project is a crowd-funded puzzle book for kids called ''Wizard Pickles''.

RPG Game illustration credits

Interior artist

* 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #13: Crypt of the Devil Lich * 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #4: Bloody Jack's Gold * 2003 - New Glory Naval Base

Cover artist

* 2005 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #21: Assault on Stormbringer Castle * 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #14: Dungeon Interludes * 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #9: Dungeon Geomorphs * 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #7: The Secret of Smuggler's Cove * 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #5: Aerie Of The Crow God

Back cover artist

* 2004 - Dungeon Crawl Classics #4: Bloody Jack's Gold

Illustrator

* 2003 - Blood Tomb

References

External links

Pewfell Comic StripWhelon.com Illustration Portfolio
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Barnes & Noble Author PageBoardGameGeek Boardgame Designer Page
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