Books
In 1981, through his brother Thomas Kirchner, a Zen Buddhist monk, he met the Zen practitioner and author Janwillem van de Wetering. Together they produced a graphic detective novel, Murder by Remote Control (Ballantine, 1986).
In 1983-84, Kirchner did the licensing art and in-pack comic books for the RoboForce robot toy line from CBS Toys. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he wrote and drew comics features for He-Man, GoBots, ThunderCats, G.I. Joe and Power Rangers magazines, published by Telepictures (later Welsh Publications). He freelanced regularly for Tyco Toys, working on the Dino-Riders, Crash Dummies and Spy-Tech toy lines, for which he wrote the back stories, did design work, wrote and drew in-pack comics and scripted for animation. He illustrated the long-running “Jack B. Quick” feature in Sports Illustrated for Kids. He illustrated Col. Jeff Cooper’s To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth, as well as seven subsequent books for the noted firearms authority and big game hunter. He wrote three pop-culture books for Rhino Entertainment. The first, Forgotten Fads and Fabulous Flops, inspired an episode of The History Channel's Modern Marvels, "Failed Inventions", in which Kirchner is featured. He has published four books with Paladin Press: The Deadliest Men, Dueling With the Sword and Pistol, Jim Cirillo's Tales of the Stakeout Squad, and More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived.
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