Guest Profiles

Charlie Adlard

Charlie Adlard

Charlie has been a “veteran” of the comic industry for over 20 years. He’s spent the majority of his time since 2004 working on The Walking Dead for which he has received many industry awards.

John Allison

John Allison

John Allison is a writer and artist living in Letchworth Garden City. He is the writer of Giant Days and By Night (BOOM!Box) and the writer/artist of Bad Machinery (Oni Press).

Dan Berry

Dan Berry

Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based right here in Shrewsbury.

Al Ewing

Al Ewing

Al Ewing began his career writing stories in the five-page Future Shocks format for 2000 AD and eventually moved on to regular stints on Judge Dredd where he wrote a story, "Doctor What?" that marked Brendan McCarthy's return to 2000 AD.

Christos Gage

Christos Gage

Christos Gage has over a decade’s worth of comic book credits, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spider-man, Avengers Academy, ROM: Spacenight and many more.

Duncan Fegredo

Duncan Fegredo

Duncan Fegredo made his debut in US comics with Kid Eternity, a book he decided to paint in full colour for no better reason than ‘everybody else was doing it’. This was followed by number of works with Peter Milligan for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint including the critically acclaimed Enigma.

Ruth Fletcher Gage

Ruth Fletcher Gage

Ruth and Christos have written as partners for television and film. Their work has been nominated for numerous awards, including SHINE and Harvey awards.

Sarah Graley

Sarah Graley

Sarah has previously worked as the writer and main artist on the official Rick and Morty comic mini-series Lil' Poopy Superstar that was nominated for two Diamond Gem awards in 2016. She was also nominated for the Emerging Talent award at the 2015 British Comic Awards.

Tyler Kirkham

Tyler Kirkham

well known for his dynamic cover art on titles like Vemon and Deadpool for Marvel Comics.

Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud

Scott created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot! In addition to his work as a writer and artist he is most well known as a comics theorist or, as some say, the "Aristotle of comics".

Greg Staples

Greg Staples

Greg is most well known for his stunning covers on 2000ad and his artwork on Judge Dredd.

Ben Stenbeck

Ben Stenbeck

Ben Stenbeck is a New Zealand comics artist. He made his Hellboy Universe debut in June 2008 with B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man and continued to work on a number of Hellboy titles including the bizarre folklore spin off Koschei the Deathless and Frankenstein Underground.

Sarah McIntyre

Sarah McIntyre

Sarah McIntyre loves making books and comics set in places she knows well, such as her neighbourhood in south London.

Bryan Talbot

Bryan Talbot

Winner of many comic awards, including an Eisner award, Le Prix SNCF and several Eagles, Bryan Talbot has been working in the medium for forty years.

Mary M Talbot

Mary M Talbot

Mary Talbot is now a freelance writer, working primarily on woman-centred innovations in the graphic novel format. She previously held academic posts for over twenty-five years, including Reader in Language and Culture at Sunderland University.

Lew Stringer

Lew Stringer

The British Comics legend who is known as Lew Stringer has been a professional humour comic artist and writer since 1984.

David Roach

David Roach

David Roach started in comic book illustration in the 1980s, self-publishing the Hellfire fanzine. Since 1988 he has worked as an inker and penciller for 2000 AD on such titles as Nemesis the Warlock, Judge Anderson, Judge Dredd and Synnamon as well as artist credits on Dr Who.

Christian Ward

Christian Ward

Christian Ward is a Shrewsbury-based illustrator, comic artist and writer.

John Wagner

John Wagner

John’s career in comics began in the late 1960’s as a member of the editorial staff with D. C. Thomson & Co. before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s.

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