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Jonathan Edwards
Official: www.jonathan-e.com
Jonathan's work first appeared in Deadline and Tank Girl Magazine and he has been a regular contributor to The Guardian since 1999

Neil Edwards
Official: www.thebristolboard.blogspot.com
Comic artist based in Wrexham, North Wales. His comic credits include the ITV series Primeval, Mr T, Marvel and more. Neil has worked for as storyboard artist for Channel 5, worked for Hibbert Ralph and D'con animation in Barcelona), and worked on CD-Rom projects for Ford for their cars. He's worked for Mako Creative as Creative Director for the several years, overseeing work and producing designs.
Neil also produces 3d artwork in Bryce and Cinema 4d for high-end work.

Will Eisner
Official: www.willeisner.com
The legendary comics creator - both as an artist and a writer, and one of my favourite comics creators. Apart from The Spirit, Eisner has created some astonishing works of graphic fiction, incing such books as A Contract with God, one of my personal favourites. Well worth checking out.
Eisner, who died 4 January 2005, was a pioneering force in comics for over 60 years. His career spanned groundbreaking work in early newspaper comics to the mature graphic novels that he continued to produce right up to his death.
A documentary about the late Will Eisner has been made by Montilla Pictures. You view a ten minute teaser online: www.montillapictures.com
• "I have to live with this guy": Ann and Will Eisner (by Blake Bell, represented from the 2002 TwoMorrows’ book, “I Have To Live With This Guy!"): www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/newWILan.html
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Electric Micks
Blog: http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/

Eclectic Micks are a collection of Irish professional comic book artists. They include Stephen Mooney (Angel; After the Fall), Stephen Thompson (Star Trek; New Frontier, Presidential Material: John McCain), PJ Holden (Fearless, 2000AD) Nick Roche (Transformers, Doctor Who), Will Sliney (Farscape), Bob Byrne (Mr. Amperduke, 2000AD) and Declan Shalvey (28 Days Later, Frankenstein)

Phil Elliott
Official: www.elliott-design.com
Phil, whose grapic novels include Contraband, Illegal Alien and Tupelo, has been working as a freelance illustrator since 1984. He's had illustrations commissioned by a number of magazines and publishers in the UK. His clients have included Times Educational Supplement, IPC, Leisure Week, Questions Publishing, Punch and Oxprint Design. He's been creating comicbooks and comic strips since 1981 and have had his work published throughout the world - Fleetway and Marvel comics in the UK, L'Echo de Savanes and A Suivre in France and Dark Horse Comics and Fantagraphics Books in the USA. He's also created regular comic strips for NME and Melody Maker, as well as The Magistrate magazine and Maidstone Star.

Gerry Embleton
Official: www.gerryembleton.com

Gerry Embleton, brother of Ron Embeleton, cut his teeth on comic-strips in the high days of English comic-strip publishing, moved into advertizing via children's educational illustration, painting historical subjects and, with great pleasure, fairy tales and fantasy.

He won a name for himself as an illustrator of military subjects specializing in highly detailed, accurate studies of costume.His works include writing and illustrating two photographic studies of medieval costume, and over 40 titles for the military publisher Osprey.

He has produced thousands of drawings on most subjects and for most kinds of publications, from fairly academic studies to "cartoons". Started to paint landscapes in the late sixties and has had exhibitions in England, Scotland, Canada, the USA and Switzerland, etc.

Gerry moved to Switzerland in 1983 to research 15th century Swiss costume, arms and armour and was invited to work for the Swiss Institute of Arms and Armour at Grandson Castle. Hebecame their official artist and later Head of their Creative Art Department.

He formed his own company, TMAG (Time Machine AG) in 1988 making life sized historical figures for exhibitions and museums and nnow divides his time between illustrating, designing and making museum exhibitions, painting historical and modern subjects, writing and research.

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Hunt Emerson
Official: www.largecow.com
Born in Newcastle on Tyne in 1952, Hunt, who is one of my favourite all-time British cartoonists, says he's drawn cartoons all his life, "although I didn't at first think about doing it seriously." He first moved to Birmingham as a Fine Art student in 1971, but quit college after a year, realising that, whatever else he was, he wasn't an Artist. Undaunted, when he discovered the Underground Press he quickly set about learning how to do comics. "I worked at various jobs in order to allow me to draw at night. I was a postman, a library assistant, I worked in the local prison (doing office work), and eventually found a job at the Polytechnic running a small printing machine. In printing I saw a way that I could link earning a living with doing what I wanted to do; draw comix."
He spent six years working at the Birmingham Arts Lab, becoming part of the group known as Ar-zak publishing British underground comics in the mid 70s. He was also drawing more and more comic strips, which were being published - mostly unpaid - in independent comic books all over the place: in Britain, America, and some in Europe. In 1979 he was able to become a fulltime freelance cartoonist and worked on several magazines including Melody Maker, Radio Times, Which Bike?, Time Out, Pink and Razzle... "For a while my cartoons were like a rash on the publishing world," he says.
In 1980 or 81 he was offered a "regular gig" by Galaxy Publications drawing Firkin the Cat, a two-page comic that is still running in Fiesta magazine written by Tym Manley. He also began my association with Fortean Times around then, the leading monthly journal of unexplained phenomena. He's also drawn for The Beano. "Extra work tends to be of a specialist nature - for example, the comic books published by the Ruskin Foundation dealing with the ideas of 19th century artist, writer, critic and political theorist John Ruskin.
Hunt's also well known for his work for British indie publisher Knockabout Comics, formed in 1979 by Tony and Carol Bennett to publish and distribute underground, minority interest comics and books. They printed the wonderful Calculus Cat (which also featured in Escape magazine0 Max Zillion & Alter Ego, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Casanova's Last Stand.
He still lives in Birmingham today. "I share a rambling old house with my dear partner Jane and three cats (Moonlight, Ali Umbaye and Mrs. Cat). I run a T'ai Chi class, and I play guitar and sing in a rock and blues band called The Hound Dogs. I like pottering in the garden, reading about ancient history, seeing friends, and living as quiet a life as possible thankyou very much. Like most cartoonists, I work crazy hours."

Maciek "Empro"
Official web site: www.empro.pl
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/empro
Award-winning Polish artist Empro writes and draws comics as well as commercial art. He is well known in Poland and abroad, collaborating with over 30 magazines and internet services, as well as international companies such MTV, Comedy Central, Levi's Strauss and many others.

Steve English
Official: www.deadseacomics.co.uk
Steve is a freelance cartoonist who has worked on national UK magazines such as The Horrible Histories and Horrible Science Collections and Scooby Doo World of Mystery.
He has also worked with a number of Christian publishers such as The Salvation Army, Kevin Mayhew, Hayes Press and Authentic Media, as writer and illustrator. His books include The Potted Guide to Theology, I Scream Sunday and Fright the Good Fright.
As well as cartoon strips Steve also writes and illustrates Sunday school resources.
His strip about a crazy scientist, Madd Science, is published for mobile by ROK Comics. In 2007, he won the £5000 prize for best Humour Comic in the ROK Comics 2007 Humour Competition.

Gary Erskine
Official: www.garyerskine.demon.co.uk
Gary's credits include Army @ Love: Hot Zone Club, Virgin's Dan Dare, the stunning first book of Knights of Pendragon, The Authority, Warheads, The Filth and heaps more. One of the most gifted artists I've ever worked with, in 2007 he gained the art chores on Virgin Comics new interpretation of Dan Dare.

Rafael Lopez Espi
Official: www.lopezespi.com
Espi drew covers for the Spanish editions of Starblazer and has also contributed to DC Thomson's Commando

Garen Ewing
Official: www.garenewing.co.uk
Illustrator, writer, comic strip creator, designer, software and multimedia developer who contributes to the weekly subscription-only title The DFC and is the brains behind the brilliant indie graphic novel Rainbow Orchid.

Brett Ewins
Official: www.brettewins.co.uk
Brett Ewins graduated from Goldsmiths College in South East London in 1977. He started drawing covers for 2000AD and from there he drew his first episode of Judge Dredd in the classic, defining story "The Day the Law Died". From that work came more Judge Dredds, including "The DNA Men", episodes of ABC Warriors, Rogue Trooper, a stint on Judge Anderson then, most notably, Bad Company.
For the US, Ewins has drawn Strange Days, Johnny Nemo, Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and Skreemer. He was editor and publisher on the ground-breaking Deadline magazine.
Ewins now spends his time painting and has enjoyed several exhibitions of his work.

Carlos Ezquerra
Official: www.internet.ad/ezquerra/
This talented comics artist is the graphic creator of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, All's Baby and many other characters for Fleetway in the UK and his latest, Bloody Mary for DC Comics. This ia great site if you like Judge Dredd with some stunning visuals of the 2000AD character.

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