Remember we said we had a lot of these King Krackle packages lying around? We really weren’t kidding! The kids have started eating them as snacks just so they can clear a small patch of floor to take a nap! So help us find a door or window in our home and buy a few of these so we can see the sun again! PLEASE!
Once again, for those of you above the deep nerdline of comics history, the quick and simple explanation of krackle is that over half a century ago a funnybook artist by the name of Jack “King” Kirby drew some circles in a panel where he wanted to show untethered, unbridled power. The inker didn’t quite get it. But Kirby kept drawing those little circles and inkers kept tweaking things until some time in the early 1960’s when everything began to take shape.
By 1966 “Joltin” Joe Sinnott had been inking Kirby for a while and between the two they had perfected what is known today as Kirby Krackle. And since that time it has taken on many forms: power blasts, fiery conflagrations, underwater miasmas, cosmic backgrounds, and everything in-between! There are literally as many styles of krackle as there are artists who’ve depicted it, but here at category4 we’re kind of sweet on the Kirby/Sinnott style: slightly wonky, circular black blobs, packed tight and highlighted in glorious color! And that’s what we provide in our King Krackle series; slightly wonky cosmic power!
Of course, you could do this all by hand, and honestly we love that method, but in the digital world that can get tiresome and complicated. King Krackle takes the tedium out and lets you focus on the creativity! Once the brush has been applied you can just let it ride, or convert to shapes, delete the empty bounding boxes and edit the remaining krackle to suit your project. It’s that easy!
Each series release of King Krackle comes with 18 unique krackle brushes for both Illustrator and Photoshop, each brush ready to fill your project with the power of the gods, but also fully customizable by clumpiness, scatterability, randomosity, and colorification, which kind of makes you a god… And all for one insanely low, low price! How can you not jump at this offer?!
And how can we make this offer at such an insanely low price? Well for starters, we may actually be insane, because we’ve created over a dozen series of krackle; well over 250 brushes ready to serve you, and we want everyone to be able to own them all! So make some room on that hard drive because the next two series of King Krackle are here!
And for those of you who like to make a bold statement, we’ve partnered with Brand Larceny to offer Kracklewear products over at RedBubble! Each series of King Krackle will be complimented with a whole buncha junk that you can use to impress your friends with! Be the first kid on your block to strut into your local comic store or convention literally krackling with power!!
And you may have noticed that Comics Canon [ http://www.comicscanon.com/ ] design on page four of our previews. You can STILL get that fancy bit of comicana on a t-shirt of your very own over here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-comics-canon It’s the first-ever commercial appearance of King Krackle and sure to be a collector’s item one day! Might as well make that day TODAY!
Excelsium!

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