Award-winning British comic creator and storyboard artist Sam Hart is a busy man right now, with projects aplenty and several upcoming appearances this summer.
Sam Hart has more than 30 years’ experience drawing superheroes and action-packed stories about characters and properties. Living in Brazil, he created superheroes for advertising agencies, published his own comics and collaborated with Antony Johnston to illustrate the spy story The Coldest City, adapted to film in 2017 as Atomic Blonde, starring Oscar winner Charlize Theron.
Now back in England, Sam is married, has two daughters and, as a side-quest, is researching the ancient and mysterious technique of watercolours.
Four of his creator-owned self-published comics are in the June 2025 issue of Previews UK, in the featured section.
Three were released last year at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, and the fourth, An Eternity of War, will be released at this year’s London Comic Festival next month, part of London Film and Comic Con.
Schem Ha-Mephorash, previously published in Portuguese in Brazil, is 24-page black and white World War Two horror story set in Prague. “This is the story that got me The Coldest City gig,” Sam tells us.
10 Lost Days is a 24-page black and white preview of Sam’s award-winning graphic novel, set in 16th Century Europe. A mixture of magic and science, writer Kieron Gillen says the story “Weaves historical fiction with the mythical with obvious delight. Timeless.”
Memories: Ruins is Sam’s most recent project, with a few pages of watercolours amid the narrative, a semi-biographical fiction genre story set in Cornwall. The 20-page story has gained plenty of praise, with Broken Frontier describing it as “A fusion of autobiography and fiction it has an eerie feel that somehow manages to sit at peace with the slice-of-life qualities that are at the forefront of its narrative.”
Last but by no means least, there’s An Eternity of War – five short stories of war, published in black and white, set in the past and future. “Some fictional, some true,” Sam teases.
Later this year, Sam will have a how-to-draw-superheroes book released, Comic Art Superheroes, and on the 30th July he’ll be giving a workshop at Waterstones Piccadilly on that theme, another workshop, on drawing Manga hosted by Celine Cresswell, preceding it. Full booking details are here on the Waterstones website.
• Sam Hart is online at samhartgraphics.com | Follow Sam Hart on Domestika for online courses |
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• The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart is available from bookshops | AmazonUK Hardcover Affiliate Link | AmazonUK Paperback Affiliate Link (published as Atomic Blonde)
November 1989. Communism is collapsing, and soon the Berlin Wall will come down with it. But before that happens there is one last bit of cloak and dagger to attend to. Two weeks ago, an undercover MI6 officer was killed in Berlin. He was carrying information from a source in the East ― a list that allegedly contains the name of every espionage agent working in Berlin, on all sides. No list was found on his body.
Now Lorraine Broughton, an experienced spy with no pre-existing ties to Berlin, has been sent into this powderkeg of social unrest, counter-espionage, defections gone bad and secret assassinations to bring back the list and save the lives of the British agents whose identities reside on it…
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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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