Celal Kandemiroglu was a graphic artist in the German computer games industry. He was born in 1953 in Turkey and made his first comic when he was five years old. After graduating at the fine arts academy in Istanbul he started to offer his comics to the Bastei-Verlag in Germany around 1978. Since 1985 he has created many video and movie covers until he became a cover artist for the German computer game industry in 1988. He died in 2022. Celal created more than 800 illustrations between 1982 and 2000, some of them more detailed, others done in a rush. Besides that, he created the in-game graphics for many games. List of games Battle Stations (1990), Magic Bytes Dragonflight (1990), Thalion Software Legend of Faerghail (1990), reLINE Software M.U.D.S. (1990), Rainbow Arts X-Out (1990), Rainbow Arts Masterblazer (1991), LucasArts Fate: Gates of Dawn (1991), reLINE Software Monster Business (1991), Eclipse Software Design The Patrician (1992), ASCARON Entertainment GmbH Der Planer (1994), Greenwood Entertainment Mad News (1994), Ikarion Menateus (1995), Siemens Nixdorf Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels (1995), Magic Bytes Elisabeth I. (1995), Ascon Emergency: Fighters for Life (1998), TopWare Interactive Zeus (1998), Blissware Entertainment Panzer Elite (1999), Psygnosis Limited Sacred (2004), Take-Two Interactive Sacred Plus (2004), KOCH Media UK Ltd. Soeldner: Secret Wars (2004), JoWooD Productions Software AG List of famous cover paintings (1988) Axxiom / Micro Partner - Spinworld (1988) EAS - Zero Gravity (1988) Rainbow Arts - Volleyball Simulator (1988) Time Warp / Rainbow Arts - Detector (1989) Magic Bytes - Air Supply (1989) Factor 5 - Denaris aka Katakis (1989) Rainbow Arts - Rock'N'Roll (1989) Rainbow Arts - Spherical (1989) Rainbow Arts - X-Out (1989) Rainbow Arts / TimeWarp - Berlin 1948 - East vs. West (1989) reLINE Software - Dyter-07 (1989) Starbyte - Tie Break (1990) Magic Bytes - Big Business (1990) Magic Bytes / Micro Partner - Domination (1990) Play Byte / Psygnosis - Atomino (1990) Rainbow Arts - Turrican (1990) Rainbow Arts - M.U.D.S. (1990) Rainbow Arts - Masterblazer (1990) Rainbow Arts - Z-Out (1990) Rainbow Arts / Amiga Artists - Startrash (1990) reLINE - Legend of Faerghail (1990) Starbyte - Crime Time (1990) Thalion - Dragonflight (1990) Thalion / Eclipse - Wings of Death (1991) Eclipse - Lethal Xcess (1991) Eclipse - Monster Business (1991) Rainbow Arts - Turrican II (1991) reLINE Software - Fate: Gates of Dawn (1992) Eclipse - Stoneage (1992)