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K.J. Kolka has been doing his series “The Cardinal” for nearly twenty years.

The first round of his Cardinal stories started in 1990, with a comic strip that was very reminiscent of classic comic strips like Dick Tracy, Annie, and other newspaper adventure strips. His other major influence in crafting the stories was the Marvel stories from the ’60’s. Anyone who reads The Cardinal will not be surprised to find that Kolka is a big fan of the classic Ant-Man and Avengers and other Marvel series from that era. The final inspiration for Kolka was his faith. Kolka’s Christianity played a huge part in developing the storylines and characters for The Cardinal.

That chapter of The Cardinal closed in 2006, when Kolka decided to change the focus and style of The Cardinal, tweaking it for a more modern audience. In November, 2007, The Cardinal reappeared, this time online on the Comics Sherpa website. Every week since then, Kolka has presented a new strip every Sunday. Both the storytelling and the artwork are more “modern” looking, but Kolka’s faith is still very present in his new series.

Kurt has been a friend of us here at WebComics.CC for a number of years now (our friendship goes back way before WebComics.CC was even a glimmer in anyone’s eye). When we started WebComics.CC, in our very first posting, actually, The Cardinal on Comics Sherpa was our very first “outside” announcement of a comic. And in that first posting, we said “watch for our presentation of the original Cardinal strip coming soon”.

Well, it wasn’t soon but it did happen.

The new The Cardinal series can be found here. If you want to read from the beginning of that series, click here. The new The Cardinal series is self-contained, as Kolka planned for it to be a relaunch or a reboot of the character. It’s a fun series, and the current storyarc (dealing with an invisible man) is one of Kolka’s best stories ever.

If you’d like to start at the VERY beginning, though, WebComics.CC is proud to present — finally! — the original series. The Cardinal Classic is now online and every Thursday we will be posting a new strip from Kolka’s The Cardinal archives. Click here to see the cover image and the first strip.

K.J. Kolka is a dedicated and talented comic creator, who has been working on a single character for two decades, and that’s why we’re proud to focus on him in our Sunday Spotlight . . . and as a WebComics.CC feature.

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