Carl Critchlow (b. 1963)

Carl Critchlow is a British fantasy and science fiction comic illustrator known for his character Thrud the Barbarian and for contributing numerous card illustrations for Magic: The Gathering. Carl has had a long career in comics dating back to the early 1980s, and though his early work consisted of black and white ink drawings, he began using color and producing fully painted pieces in the 1990s, including for a handful of pieces for video game packaging documented below.

OVGA has included below Carl Critchlow’s full known video game box art catalog:

1. Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard (Psygnosis | DOS | 1994)
2. Ecstatica (Psygnosis | DOS | 1994)
3. Shadow of the Beast II (Psygnosis | Sega CD | 1994)
4. Sea Legends (Ocean | DOS | 1996)

Carl also created the packaging art for the unreleased Psygnosis game Superhero, which was set for release in 1993 and may have been Carl’s first project with Psygnosis. The game was mere weeks from release, but a police raid on the development office restricted access to the computers with the files until 1998, ultimately killing the project.