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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Staz Johnson Appearing: Both Days Artist: Catwoman; Robin; 2000AD; Batman/Aliens II; HE MAY have started out providing illustrations to role-playing games magazines but next year Staz Johnson will celebrate 30 years in the comics industry. Very soon after making his comics debut at Harrier (a small British indie publisher), Johnson was picked up by Marvel UK, where he became a semi-regular artist on The Transformers from 1989 to 1991 although his association with the title continued until 1994. The artist then drew Death Wreck, a four-parter that led to him catching the eye of both Marvel US and DC. Although he drew several fill-ins for the House of Ideas, Johnson worked almost exclusively for the Batman and Superman publisher between 1995 and 2001. He pencilled runs of Detective Comics, Robin and most famously, Catwoman before moving on to contribute to 2000 AD until 2003. Towards the end of his tenure on the self-styled Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Johnson found time to illustrate DC’s three-part Batman/Aliens II. Afterwards he migrated to Marvel, where his inaugural major project was Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure. After that 2003 five-parter came the first four 2005 issues of Image/Top Cow’s Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead following which Johnson – who was the superhero expert on Zero to Hero, a 2004 Channel 4 television series – returned to Marvel for 2006’s Underworld five-parter. After that the artist produced only a limited amount of art directly for the comics industry – his time taken up by advertising, including the first of four intended New World Order one-shots promoting a line of Agent Provocateur lingerie. When he resurfaced in 2012 it was with Dracula: The Graphic Novel for Classical Comics as well as at DC where he illustrated issues of G.I. Combat before transferring to All Star Western, which he exited in 2014.