Lucy Willis is a painter and printmaker with over 27 solo exhibitions in London to date. Her work has won several awards, including the 1992 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
She’s also the grand daughter of cartoonist H.M.Bateman, and, back in May 2012, The Artist magazine published her tribute to him, discussing his later years painting on Malta and Gozo.
“Arguably the most influential and widely published comic draughtsman of the early 20th century he was always just grandpa to me,” says Lucy, relating how, he reached the age of forty, at the height of his fame, he decided to retire from cartooning and fulfil his lifelong ambition to become ‘a real artist’, as he’d hankered to be since his early art school training.
• You can read “In my Grandfather H M Bateman’s footsteps Malta and Gozo” here on Lucy’s official site
• HM Bateman Official Site: hmbateman.com
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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