Before we chose our Ranked Hard artist we commissioned two artists Kelly Ishikawa and Jake Ekiss to do a version of the same strip, “Black Magic SEO.” Although we ultimately chose Kelly to work with, Jake was a close second and we were very impressed with his version. He was a pleasure to work with and we would recommend him highly to anyone looking for an artist. Here is his version of “Black Magic SEO.” And below the comic we have other art he was kind enough to allow us to display. You can also see more by Jake at his online gallery: http://jakeekiss.deviantart.com/

If you want to know more about Jake, he is a freelance illustrator and graphic artist based in Dallas Texas. His works include the humor web comic Space-Gun as well as the Dallas-based Synesthetic anthology. Here are two more examples of his work.