Latest Comic Guest Announcement - IAN CHURCHILL

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Ian Churchill

Attending: Saturday & Sunday

Writer/artist: Cable; Marineman; Revenge; Supergirl; The Coven

"OVERNIGHT sensation" is often a misnomer but not in Ian Churchill's case. From the outset the British artist was making waves in comicdom.

Hired by Marvel in 1993 he worked on a variety of the House of Ideas' high-profile and top-selling X-comics before being assigned as the regular penciller on Cable two years later. At the same time as drawing 15 issues of that X-Force spinoff between #20 and 39, he also began producing a steady stream of covers and pinups.

In 1997 he left Cable and, after a brief flirtation with Avengers moved to Awesome Entertainment for which he and writer Jeph Loeb co-created The Coven. After two miniseries and three one-shots, the Cable collaborators moved on to Lionheart (a 1999 series that Churchill co-wrote) but only managed two issues before Awesome collapsed.

Over the next six years he concentrated on covers working for both DC and Marvel. He also illustrated fill-ins for the two comicbook publishing giants, a significant proportion of them again being X-titles for the House of Ideas and Superman-related comics for DC. Then, in 2005, he and Loeb relaunched Supergirl for DC with the artist pencilling all but three of the first 15 issues.

His next major assignment – again for DC – was Titans but after drawing the preceding Titans East Special and the 2008 first issue of the series itself he was forced to the sidelines by an injury that kept him out of the spotlight for almost two years. In late 2009 he resurfaced at Marvel drawing a five-issue run on Hulk in a completely new style.

The creator-owned Marineman came next. Written and drawn by Churchill, the 2010 Image six-parter was followed in 2012 by The Ravagers, a DC series for which he pencilled the initial seven issues. After that he moved back to Image for another creator-owned comic, 2014's Revenge, a four-parter written by British TV personality Jonathan Ross.

Churchill remains in demand for his covers while his next major project is eagerly awaited by his any fans.