Kim Jung Gi

Kim Jung Gi (1975 – 2022) was a South Korean artist and writer.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Kim Jung Gi was born in 1975 in the town of , in the province of South Korea. By the age of 19, he was an aspiring artist and attended a Fine Arts School, majoring in Art and Design. He later attended in for three years and also performed two years of compulsory service in the as a part of the .
In 2003, he published his first story Funny Funny in Young Jump magazine. He continued writing short stories which led to him teaching classes for manhwa at various private schools and universities. From 2008 to 2010, he collaborated with Seung-Jin Park to create the six volume manhwa Tiger the Long Tail. Later that year and again in 2013, Jung Gi illustrated two of French author Bernard Werber's novels, Paradise and Third Humanity.
===Assassin's Creed===
In July 2020, following Ubisoft's first Ubisoft Forward presentation where the release date of the next Assassin's Creed installment Assassin's Creed: Valhalla was announced, a standalone novel was also announced written by Matthew J. Kirby and with Kim Jung Gi drawing the cover art. The cover art was to be posted on Jung Gi's Instagram account later that month, but was delayed until October. When it was finally uploaded on 7 October, the description revealed that Jung Gi drew the art, while another Korean artist Pyeongjun Park colored it. A time-lapse video of Jung Gi drawing the cover was uploaded to the Assassin's Creed UK twitter accounts the same day.
===Death===
Kim Jung Gi passed away in Paris on 3 October 2022, after experiencing chest pains. It was later revealed that cause of death was a sudden heart attack.
==Assassin's Creed works==
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Geirmund's Saga - cover artist
==Gallery==
ACV Geirmunds Saga textless cover.jpg|Textless cover of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Geirmund's Saga
==External links==
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==References==
Category:Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Geirmund's Saga creative team