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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jock Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Wytches; The Losers; 2000 AD MERE months after drawing a contribution to a 1999 issue of 2000 AD, Jock became something of a regular on the self-styled Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Between 2000 and 2003, the artist born Mark Simpson worked on a variety of strips for the British weekly and for its companion, the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine. Among them were Judge Dredd and Lenny Zero, which he co-created with writer Andy Diggle. Jock's invasion of the US market began with a single 2003 issue of Hellblazer for Vertigo (DC's mature readers imprint). Although he was soon in demand as a cover artist, before the year was out he and Diggle launched The Losers, a Vertigo series that ran 32 issues of which Jock illustrated 21 while producing all the covers. By the time The Losers ended in 2006 the artist – who had drawn a 2006 issue of Swamp Thing along the way – was creating an ever-increasing number of covers, becoming the regular cover artist on Scalped when that Vertigo comic debuted in 2007. Shortly after (and again in collaboration with Diggle) he took on DC's six-part Green Arrow: Year One and virtually simultaneously Faker, a six-issue Vertigo mini. His first Marvel work – an 11-page contribution to the third and final issue of Dark X-Men: The Beginning – came in 2009 with his most ambitious project to date, Vertigo's John Constantine, Hellblazer: Pandemonium graphic novel, following early in 2010 as did a three-issue run on Detective Comics to which he would return for eight more issues in 2011. With his time increasingly taken up by covers as well as by producing concept art and promotional campaigns for the movie industry, Jock's storytelling output has lessened significantly. At the end of 2012 he drew four issues of Batman after a reunion with Diggle for Snapshot, a strip first serialised in Judge Dredd Megazine earlier in the year before being reissued in the US as an Image four-parter in 2013. In 2014 Jock drew two issues of Adventures of Superman and contributed to Vertigo Quarterly CMYK #1 before moving to Image to launch Wytches. Most recently he also drew a fill-in issue of Batman.