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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Gary Erskine Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday GARY ERSKINE Artist: Dan Dare; Thunderbolts; Knights of Pendragon LIKE so many others looking to establish themselves professionally in comic, Gary Erskine began his career quietly but within in months of making his debut in 1990 (with a cover for Marvel UK's Transformers #251), the young Scots artist was hired by the House of Ideas' British arm to be the regular artist on Knights of Pendragon. He pencilled all but one of the title's first 18 issues before moving on to the first two issues of 1992's Warheads via contributions to Crisis, the politically aware sister title of 2000 AD for which he had also taken to working. America came calling in 1993 whenErskine was offered the Wolverine and the Punisher: Damaging Evidence three-parter by Marvel. This he followed by illustrating issues of Firearm later Code Name: Firearm for Malibu's Ultraverse imprint and Blaze for Marvel and then two four-parters – Malibu's Terminator movie tie-in T2: Nuclear Twilight and The Mask: World Tour for Dark Horse – with a 1996 return to 2000 AD sandwiched in between. From 1997 to 2000 Erskine drew issues of Dark Horse's Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadronand Vermillion for Helix (DC's short-lived SF imprint) Helix as well as two Dark Horse four-parters – Hypersonicand Out for Blood – and the three-issue City of Silence for Image but then he elected to pretty much drop his pencilling work in favour of inking Chris Weston's pencils on a couple of DC/Vertigo projects. War Stories: Johann's Tiger (a 2001 one-shot) was followed by the 13 issues of 2002's The Filth​although Erskine did fully illustrate Archangel – a 2003 War Stories one-off – during that run. Over the next four years he inked such projects as two 2004 six-parters (Avengers/Thunderbolts for Marvel and DC's JSA: Strange Adventures), 26 issues of New Thunderbolts(retitled Thunderbolts in 2006) and the four issues of 2007's Thunderbolts Presents: Zemo – Born Better. Over the same period he also pencilled and inked 2005's Jack Cross four-parter for DC and reunited with Weston to ink Marvel's 2006 six-parter, Fantastic Four: First Familybefore returning to Vertigo to ink all 18 issues of 2007's Army @ Love alongside Virgin Comics' seven-issue Dan Dare, a 2007 resurrection of Britain's quintessential 1950s SF icon that he fully illustrated. Between 2010 and 2013 he spent much time at IDW, primarily inking G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero although he also illustrated the two issues of 2011's Star Trek: Infestation. On top of that he inked the 28 issues of 2012's Crossed: Wish You were Herefor Avatar before moving back to Marvel in 2013 to provide finishes on the four issues of Ultimate Comics Wolverine. Since parting company with IDW, Erskine's inks have turned up on a variety of titles, chief among them the first four issues of 2014's Dead Boy Detectives for Vertigo. His most recent major project is Revolutionary War: Warheads​, a 2014 one-shot that he pencilled and inked for Marvel.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Matt Brooker Attending: Saturday and Sunday MATT BROOKER Artist: 2000 AD; War of the Worlds; Kingdom of the Wicked OFTEN credited as D'Israeli and occasionally D'Israeli D'Emon D'Raughtsman, Brooker has been drawing comics professionally since 1988. His early work appeared in such titles as Mister X, Crisis, Hellblazer and The Sandman. as well as Deadline. For the latter title he co-created Lazarus Churchyard with writer Warren Ellis whom he also partnered on Metalscream stories in 1994 for Marvel's 2099 Unlimited comic. Although he has numerous DC and Marvel credits, much of his subsequent work has been for 2000 AD and in collaboration with writer Ian Edginton, with whom he first worked on Revolver in 1992. Since 1998 he has been a regular contributor to the self-styled Galaxy's Greatest Comic and its companion title Judge Dredd Megazine where his major projects have included Scarlet Traces (a follow up of sorts to H .G. Well s' War of the Worlds , which he an d Edginton adapted f or D ark Horse in 20 04), Leviathan , Stickleback a nd – with writer Rob Williams – Low Life and Ordinary . He a l so drew Kingdom of the Wicked , an Edginton-writ te n four-part e r for Caliber i n 1996 , a n d the four-issue Great Game , Dark Horse's 2006 sequel to Scarlet Traces .

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lee Sullivan Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Artist: Transformers, Robocop, Doctor Who STARTING out in 1986 producing covers for Marvel UK's Transformers weekly and shortly thereafter doing the same for Thundercats as well, Lee Sullivan's first story art came within a year. A semi-regular on Transformers , he would subsequently begin contributing to Doctor Who Magazine as well as 2000 AD . He entered the US arena in 1990, launching and drawing virtually every one of the 23 issues of Marvel's Robocop before moving on to to do much the same on Tekworld , the 1994 comic featuring William Shatner's futuristic detective Jake Cardigan. Published by Marvel's Epic imprint, it ran 24 issues between 1992 and 1994. Two years later he illustrated a Doctor Who strip that ran for almost a year in Radio Times , the BBC TV listings magazine. Since then he has had a short run on Doctor Who: Battles in Time ​ [2006-2007] and produced 2010's graphic novel adaptation of author Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus for Hyperion.​

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Kevin Maguire Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Artist: Justice League; Trinity Angels AFTER almost exactly a year of drawing a smattering of covers and pin-ups for both Marvel and DC Kevin Maguire exploded on to the comics scene with the 1987 first issue of Justice League. He remained on the series later retitled Justice League International until 1989 drawing 19 of the first 24 issues, subsequently reuniting with writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis to revisit the concept in 2003's Formerly known as the Justice League and in the six-part I Can't Believe it's not the Justice League, which ran in Justice League Classified #4-9 two years later. In between he produced a steady stream of covers alongside the occasional pin-up and fill-in although in 1991 he joined Fabian Nicieza to co-write Adventures of Captain America, a Marvel mini running to four issues of which he also drew the first three. The following year came Team Titans #1-3 for DC and then Strikeback!, a 1994 Malibu miniseries (that he co-wrote and drew) that was completed at Image/WildStorm two years later. In 1997 Maguire moved across to Valiant for which he created Trinity Angels, writing all 12 issues and pencilling the first five and the last. Three years later he reunited with Nicieza for DC's Justice League: Created Equal two-parter and then again the following year for Marvel's six-issue X-Men Forever while also writing and pencilling 2001's Gen13/Fantastic Four. In 2005, following their JLA Classified reunion Giffen, DeMatteis and Maguire moved on to Marvel for a Defenders five-parter after which the artist once again concentrated on covers complemented by the occasional pin-up and filler. That was until 2008 when he illustrated a Nicieza-written five-issue Batman Confidential serial with Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man: The Short Halloween one-shot and the Giffen/DeMatteis-written Metal Men back-ups in in issues #1-4 and 6-7 of DC's Doom Patrol​ following in 2009. Since then his main projects have been for DC where he illustrated and wrote the Tanga back-up in the six issues of Weird Worlds and of the My Greatest Adventure mini that followed. His most recent interior work was on the first seven issues of 2012's World's Finest on which he shared art credits with George Pérez. Although his storytelling output is limited when compared with that of some of his peers, the artist – who drew 2001's aptly titled Just Imagine Stan Lee with Kevin Maguire creating the Flash​ one-shot for DC and wrote the first four issues of Dark Horse's 1995 Godzilla comic – is in continual demand for his covers and remains a firm fan favorite.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Dave Windett Attending: Saturday and Sunday Artist: The Dandy; The Beano; DFC FOR CLOSING on three decades Dave Windett has been a professional illustrator and comics artist whose work has been published by numerous publishers – among them Bongo Comics, DC Thomson, Fleetway, Marvel UK and Panini – in Britain, Europe and America. Korky the Cat, Bart Simpson, Bugs Bunny, Count Duckula and Scooby Doo are just a handful of the very many original and licensed characters he has drawn.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Chad Hardin Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Artist: Harley Quinn; The Traveller; Dragon Age TODAY he is lauded for his work on DC’s hugely popular Harley Quinn but Chad Hardin has been drawing comics professionally for eight years before he was assigned that title, which he has illustrated since its 2014 relaunch. His first work was for Digital Webbing where he contributed to a couple of 2006 issues of its flagship Digital Webbing Presents anthology. The following year he drew Digital Webbing’s Bloodrayne: Tibetan Heights one-shot and a year later embarked on its Bloodrayne: Prime Cuts miniseries but only completed two issues before DC came calling. Starting off in 2008 by contributing to two issues of Countdown to Mystery, the artist – who also worked on 2008’s Warhammer: Condemned by Fire five-parter for BOOM! – to pencil three issues of The Spirit and contribute to three of Reign in Hell. That took him into 2009 which was when he worked for Marvel for the first time, contributing to Marvel Apes: Speedball Special, Marvel Apes: Grunt Line Special and Marvel Apes: Amazing Spider-Monkey Special before resuming work for DC as the regular penciller of Warlord for which he pencilled #3-6, 10-11 and 13-14. At the same time he was producing an increasing number of covers, most notably for various Farscape titles published by BOOM!, which hired him to illustrate The Traveller in 2010. He pencilled all 12 issues of that Stan Lee-created title while also drawing Our Fighting Forces #1 and four issues of Zatanna for DC. With The Traveller at an end, Hardin next turned up at Dark Horse where he drew three Dragon Age minis – The Silent Grove, Those who Speak and Until we Sleep – before heading back to DC for three issues of Demon Knights from where he moved on to Harley Quinn. Chad Hardin appears courtesy of Limited Edition Comix: www.ltd-edition-comix.com

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Tim Truman Writer/Artist: Scout; Conan, Hawkworld, Grimjack, Jonah Hex A GRADUATE of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Tim Truman began his professional career providing illustrations for handbooks for fantasy role playing games. His first comics work was inking a handful of stories for DC’s Sgt Rock title in the early 1980s before introducing Grimjack at First Comics in 1983’s Starslayer #10. The character, which he created in collaboration with writer John Ostrander, graduated to his own title the following year. Truman pencilled only the first 19 issues of Grimjack before moving on to Eclipse for Scout. A creator-owned series that he both wrote and drew, that ran for 24 issues before being relaunched for a further 16 issues as Scout: War Shaman in 1988. Between his work for First – for which he’d also co-written and illustrated 1985’s Time Beavers graphic novel – and Eclipse, Truman had established himself as one of the mainstays of the independent comics scene that was thriving in the late 1980s even going so far as to set up his own publishing/packaging label. Under the Eclipse umbrella, his 4Winds Publishing introduced such Argentinean talents as Carlos Trillo, Enrique Alcatena and Enrique Breccia to the American audience while also releasing Wilderness. Subtitled The True Story of Simon Girty the Renegade, this ambitious two-volume historical biography was Truman’s first foray into Westerns, a genre with which he has remained associated down the years. In tandem with writer Chuck Dixon, Truman’s 4Winds also revived Hillman’s Airboy for Eclipse and created Prowler for that publisher before Truman was approached by DC to reinvent Hawkman. This he did in Hawkworld, a well-received 1989 three-parter that led to an ongoing series for which he and Ostrander wrote the first nine issues after which Truman moved back to Eclipse for 1991’s Dragon Chiang one-shot and to resurrect a 1930s pulp hero in The Spider, which he followed in 1992 with a sequel, another three-parter subtitled Reign of the Vampire King. In between he also began contributing to Grateful Dead Comix, kicking off an association with the band that extended beyond comics and continues to this day. Subsequently Truman – who also collaborated with historian William W Eckert on Tecumseh! (a 1992 retelling of the life of the famed Shawnee chief, published by Eclipse) – teamed up with noted horror author Joe R Lansdale to give DC’s Western hero Jonah Hex a Vertigo-style makeover in the first of three minis. Two-Gun Mojo [1993] was followed by Riders of the Worm and Such [1995] and Shadows West [1999] while the duo also collaborated on 1994’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto four-parter for Topps and on the three issues of Lansdale and Truman’s Dead Folks for Avatar in 2003. Truman also took to writing for other artists, starting off at Valiant for which he scripted 30 issues of Turok, Dinosaur Hunter between 1993 and 1996, when he illustrated Dog Moon, a DC/Vertigo one-shot written by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. In the same year he produced the six issues of The Black Lamb for Helix (DC’s short-lived SF imprint) prior to moving on to reunite with Ostrander for The Kents, a 1997 DC Western that to an Elseworlds look at the ancestors of Superman’s adoptive parents in the Old West across its 12 issues. Then came 1998’s four-issue Guns of the Dragon for DC after which he became involved with Star Wars at Dark Horse, writing the Anakin Skywalker tie-in with Episode I: The Phantom Menace as well as 16 issues of the ongoing Star Wars comic between 1999 and 2001. At the same time Truman also scripted Creature Commandos, a 2000 six-parter for DC. In 2001 he wrote a drew the three issues of DC’s JLA: Gatekeeper, pretty much his last comics work until 2005 when he and Ostrander resurrected Grimjack at IDW for the six-issue Killer Instinct, which they followed four years later with The Manx Cat, another six-parter. By that time Truman was also the regular writer of Conan for Dark Horse authoring 42 issues of that title and its 2008 replacement Conan the Cimmerian between 2006 and 2010. Since then he has primarily concentrated on his illustration work but wrote and drew 2011’s Hawken (a six-issue IDW Western) and maintains his links with Robert E Howard’s archetypal sword and sorcery hero by scripting Dark Horse’s various King Conan minis.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jack Lawrence Attending: Saturday and Sunday Artist: Lions, Tigers and Bears; Darkham Vale AFTER three years working in animation, Jack Lawrence switched careers, making his debut as a comicbook artist with Darkham Vale, which he also wrote. Published in 2003 by AP Comics, the series ran 10 issues and spawned a one-shot spin-off, Darkham Vale: The Dracou Imperative. Probably best-known for drawing Image’s Lions, Tigers and Bears [2005], Lawrence – who signs his work Jackademus – has also contributed to such other titles 2000 AD, Panini’s Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and Image’s Dynamo 5 over the past decade.

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 - Ben Oliver Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: Batwing; 2000 AD; Vigilante As many British creators do, Ben Oliver kicked off his comics career at 2000 AD but followed his 2000 debut on a Judge Dredd two-parter by moving to Com.X for Puncture.Begun in 2001, the six-issue series wasn't finished until 2002 and Oliver's only comics work for the next couple of years was a couple of variant covers for DC's WildStorm imprint. He reemerged in 2004 with The Authority: Human on the Inside, a WildStorm graphic novel that really put him on the map. In the decade since he has established himself as an in-demand cover artist although he returns occasionally to storytelling. Since 2004, he has produced strips for both Marvel and DC with his credits including such titles as Batwing, Young X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, The Losers and Vigilante as well as making the occasional contribution to 2000 AD.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Ben Oliver Artist: Batwing; 2000 AD; Vigilante As many British creators do, Ben Oliver kicked off his comics career at 2000 AD but followed his 2000 debut on a Judge Dredd two-parter by moving to Com.X for Puncture.Begun in 2001, the six-issue series wasn't finished until 2002 and Oliver's only comics work for the next couple of years was a couple of variant covers for DC's WildStorm imprint. He reemerged in 2004 with The Authority: Human on the Inside, a WildStorm graphic novel that really put him on the map. In the decade since he has established himself as an in-demand cover artist although he returns occasionally to storytelling. Since 2004, he has produced strips for both Marvel and DC with his credits including such titles as Batwing, Young X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, The Losers and Vigilante as well as making the occasional contribution to 2000 AD.

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 - Mike Mayhew Attending: SAT/SUN Artist – The Star Wars

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Carlos Ezquerra Attending: SAT/SUN Artist – co-creator Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - John Higgins Attending: Fri/Sat/Sun Colourist – Watchmen; writer/artist/colourist Before Watchmen

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lalit Kumar Sharma Attending: Fri/Sat/Sun Artist – World War One: 1914-1918; Muhammed Ali: The King of the Ring; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Adi Granov Attending: Fri/Sat/Sun Artist – Marvel covers; Iron Man movies

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

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Chad Hardin Attending: Sat/Sun Sponsored by Limited Edition Comix Artist – Harley Quinn, Stan Lee’s The Traveler, Dragon Age

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Barry Kitson Sponsored by Scott’s Collectables Attending: Fri/Sat/Sun Artist – Harbinger; FF; Empire; L.E.G.I.O.N

Latest Comic Guest - Erik Larsen Attending: SAT/SUN Writer/artist – Savage Dragon; Amazing Spider-Man

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Gary Erskine Artist – Dan Dare; Dead Boy Detectives; Ultimate Comics Wolverine; G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - David Lloyd Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: V for Vendetta; Aces Weekly; The Horrorist; Kickback

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Owen Watts Attending: Sat/Sun Artist: Aces Weekly

Latest Guest Announcement - Bambos Georgiou Attending: Sat/Sun Artist – Aces Weekly; Transformers