Karl Keesler

Karl Keesler is an award winning Art Director that started in the gaming industry back in 2002 with United Playtest. He was the “Layout Guy” on Gaming Frontiers, a d20 magazine. From there he partnered up with the guys at Dog House Rules and took his passion for graphic design and gaming and turned it into a Gold ENnie in 2004 for Best Electronic Product for their flagship book, Sidewinder: Recoiled. He continued to work on numerous page layouts and logo designs for Dog House Rules’ Frontier Towns, The Fort Griffin Echo, Buckshots, Six Guns and Quick Quests; garnering multiple ENnie nominations. Recently he has started freelancing with character sheet design work for Fabled Environments’ Savage Worlds setting, Olympus Inc.

Over the past five years, Karl has taken his love of graphic design, pop culture and Savage Worlds to newer heights with running his unique conventions games such as his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen adventure series, Ghostbusters, Men in Black and Mystery Men. He likes to make his games eye-catching and exciting with custom designed maps, one-of-a-kind miniatures, paper craft terrain, specially designed character sheets and original Benny ideas. Karl is a well-known figure on Google+ where he posts game reports and plenty of pictures of some of his gaming creations. He has been a guest on the Savage Bloggers Network Hangouts talking about his creations and inspirations.

When he isn’t gaming and creating props he is enjoying life in sunny South Florida as an Art Director, with his wife Kathy and their two dogs Pancho and Rita.