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Mike Collins

 

Artist: Doctor Who, Star Trek, 2000 AD, Transformers, Peter Cannon – Thunderbolt

 

In the mid to late 1980s, Mike’s career started in the mid 80’s in the UK, writing and drawing strips for the UK division of Marvel Comics. His work included Spider-Man, Transformers, Doctor Who, and Zoids. He also worked on the celebrated UK weekly comic 2000 AD drawing Judge Dredd, Sláine and Rogue Trooper, as well as writing various Future Shocks.

In the late 80’s he was then hired in the 'Second Wave' of British artists lured to the US. Through the 1990s, he worked primarily for DC Comics on their key titles such as Batman, Superman, Flash, Teen Titans, Wonder Woman and the Justice League.

A brief spell at Marvel saw Mike working on Uncanny X-Men but he was shortly back to DC to write and draw Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, a revival of a 1960s Charlton Comics character.

Mike's primarily known for his work on TV and movie tie-in comics for both Marvel and DC he has written and drawn Star Trek comics. In the late 1990s, he drew a Babylon 5 mini-series, "In Valen's Name", written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski and Peter David.

In 2001 he wrote and designed the first ever Welsh language graphic novel, Mabinogi, in association with Cartwyn Cymru, and is the first UK artist to produce a series of graphic novels for Norway with Gunnar Staalesen, featuring his celebrated private eye, Varg Veum.

Currently he is working on Panini Comics Doctor Who Magazine, and Mike also wrote and drew a strip for the late, lamented Weekly World News, as well as co-creating the series American Gothic with Ian Edginton for 2000 AD.

Outside of comics Mike paints covers to a monthly series of downloadable Star Trek novels - the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, and works as a storyboard artist for both animation and live-action TV and movies.

For BBC Books he has drawn The Only Good Dalek, the first graphic novel from the publisher, written by long time Doctor Who author Justin Richards.