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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lee Townsend Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: 2000 AD Probably best-known for his contributions to such 2000 AD strips as Bison, Synammon and Breathing Space, Townsend began his comics career in 2000 providing inks to the last three issues of Gary Frank’s Image/Top Cow six-parter, Kin. The artist, who had a brief stint working in animation for Dreamworks and Disney, has since provided finishes for a variety of titles, Judge Dredd Megazine, Marvel Heroes, Marvel Rampage, Transformers: Armada and Panini UK’s Spider-Man among them. He has been inking Crossed: With You were Here for Avatar Press since 2012. http://www.leetownsendart.com/uploads/1/8/8/6/18865708/s552160190433861406_p51_i1_w2500.jpeg

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Mike Collins Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: Doctor Who; 2000 AD; Darkstars Across a career that dates back to 1983, Mike Collins has pretty much drawn all the major superheroes for DC as well as quite a few for Marvel. The co-creator of Gambit (introduced in 1990’s Uncanny X-Men #266) made his professional debut illustrating a four-pager written by the soon-to-be-a-comicbook legend Alan Moore published by Marvel UK in The Daredevils #8. Soon in demand as both a penciller and an inker, Collins contributed to various other titles – notably Transformers – for the House of Ideas’ British arm before adding 2000 AD to his growing CV. His first US work was for Eclipse where he drew strips for issues of Laser Eraser and Pressbutton in 1986. The following year he was hired by DC to draw New Teen Titans Annual #3, the first of a number of one-off assignments he fulfilled alongside his continuing work for various British comics, among them Doctor Who Magazine, a title with which he has remained closely associated ever since. In 1992 Collins launched Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, writing and drawing all 12 of its issues before moving on to pencil all but one of the final 21 issues of another DC comic, Darkstars. Come early 1998, the artist was involved with two new series: Star Trek: Untold Voyages (aborted after just five issues) and Babylon 5: In Valen’s Name, a three-parter on which he collaborated with J Michael Straczynski, creator of the television series. While much of his focus since the millennium has been outside the comics field, Collins continues to contribute to Doctor Who and 2000 AD as well as its companion title, Judge Dredd Megazine. http://cdn.unleashthefanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/page-5.jpg?4dbf7b

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Kev Hopgood Appearing: Sat/Sun Artist: Iron Man; 2000 AD; Warhammer Monthly Three years after a brief flirtation with the then still extant underground comics scene (he wrote and illustrated a contribution to 1981’s Knockabout Comics #3) Kev Hopgood resurfaced drawing mainstream comics. Like many of his peers he contributed to 2000 AD (for which he worked on and off until 1995) but also illustrated stories for Marvel UK where his art graced the pages of Spider-Man and Zoids as well as such titles as Mighty World of Marvel, Thundercats, Action Force and Doctor Who. He made his US debut in 1988 with issue #4 of G.I. Joe European Missions continuing to contribute to that Marvel title until the following year. Marvel US came calling again in 1992 at which time he became the regular penciller on Iron Man. He stayed on that series for just over two years during which time he co-created War Machine. Stories for the Warhammer Monthly anthology (published by Games Workshop’s Black Library imprint for which he also drew three Darkblade graphic novels) followed but by 2000 he was all-but out of comics. He resurfaced in 2008 to draw two Warhammer 40,000 minis for BOOM! Studios but – although he then chose to concentrate on illustrating children's books and educational books – in 2014 he began contributing to 2000 AD's companion title, Judge Dredd Megazine​.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - PJ Holden Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: 2000 AD; Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human IT TOOK almost five years for Paul J Holden to get his career off the ground. Although he began drawing for Fantagraphics in 1995 and for Caliber the following year, his small body of work for the US indie publishers came to an end in 1997. He resurfaced in 1999 contributing to Violent! – a UK small press comic published in homage to Action, the controversial British boys’ weekly of the mid-1970s – although things didn’t really take off for him until the following year when he illustrated his first story for 2000 AD [in Prog 1233]. Since his debut in the self-styled Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Holden – who contributed stories to Black Library’s Warhammer Monthly between 2002 and 2003 – has been and remains a frequent contributor to 2000 AD and to Judge Dredd Megazine, its companion title. He also maintains his links with the British small press, occasionally providing covers and the like to such titles as Violent!, Zarjaz and FutureQuake. He returned to the US market in 2007 to pencil Image’s four-issue Fearless. Although the bulk of Holden’s output remains on this side of the Atlantic, he did also illustrate Happy Valley (the first three issues of Dynamite’s 2010 Battlefields series) and a 2011 Dynamite four-parter, Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human. He is currently drawing Renegade Arts’ four-issue Monsterology.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Brett Ewins Attending: Fri/Sat/Sun Artist – 2000 AD; Strange Days; Skreemer; Deadline

Latest Guest Announcement - Dave Gibbons Attending: Sunday Afternoon Artist – Watchmen; The Originals; Give Me Liberty; 2000 AD The famed Watchmen co-creator has graciously agreed to participate in a one-hour panel on the origins of British comics fandom. This is scheduled for 2:00pm and will be followed by a one-hour interview with the legendary British writer/artist. After that career-spanning talk concludes he will be available for signing until the show closes.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Nick Percival Attending: Sat/Sun Artist – 2000 AD; Legends: The Enchanted; Dead of Night Featuring Man-Thing

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - David Roach Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: 2000 AD; Doctor Who

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Alan Grant Attending: Sat/Sun Best know as a Writer – Batman; 2000 AD; Lobo

We are very please to announce - David Roach Attending: Sat/Sun WELL known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of comics history and for his remarkable ability to identify the work of other comics artists, David Roach began his professional career drawing for 2000 AD. He worked on various strips for the self-styled Galaxy’s Greatest Comic between 1988 and 1992, when he made his US debut illustrating a 13-page story for issue #3 of Marvel’s creator-owned Epic anthology. Over the next three years he pencilled for both DC and Dark Horse contributing to such titles as Dark Horse Comics, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Knights of the Old Republic, Darkstars and Lobo before drawing 1996’s Batman/Demon one-shot. Much indemand as an inker especially on Doctor Who Magazine, Roach’s next major project was Star Trek: Voyager – Avalon Rising, a 2000 one-shot for DC’s WildStorm imprint following which he renewed his association with 2000 AD. He remains a frequent contributor to the UK SF weekly while also working outside of comics; among other things he provides illustrations for role-playing game manuals and storyboards for films.