David Roach (comics)

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David Roach
Nationality British
AreaWriter, Artist

David Roach is a British comic book artist and writer based in Wales, United Kingdom. Roach actively illustrates for many companies, including 2000 AD , Panini Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Topps, and the gaming company Wizards of the Coast.

Career

Roach started comic book illustration in the 1980s, self-publishing the Hellfire fanzine. Since 1988 Roach has worked as an inker and penciller for 2000 AD [1] on such titles as Nemesis the Warlock , Judge Anderson , Judge Dredd and Synnamon. [2]

In the 1990s, Roach started producing work for DC Comics, drawing Batman and Demon and inking Challengers of the Unknown . Roach contributed to the Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi .

Roach is associate editor of the U.S. based magazine Comic Book Artist, which is dedicated to the historical representation of comic-book characters. Roach was co-editor of The Warren Companion: The Definitive Compendium to the Great Comics of Warren Publishing [3] (2001) the revised edition of the Slings and Arrows Comics Guide [4] (2003) and The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes [5] [6] (2004).

Roach has worked as illustrator for consecutive Dungeons & Dragons [7] role playing game book titles for publishers Wizards of the Coast. [8]

Roach's recent work has included working as storyboard artist and penciller of accompanying graphic novel, Hard Choices 'What happened on Algol?' , for Ultramarines: The Movie both written by Dan Abnett and released on 29 November 2010. [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ "David Roach on 2000AD Official site". Archived from the original on 28 November 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Synnamon synopsis on 2000AD website". Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  3. ↑ The Warren Companion on Amazon.com
  4. ↑ "Review of Slings and Arrows Comics Guide". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Lent, John (July 2007). "Comic Books and Comic Strips: A Bibliography of the Scholarly Literature", Choice 44 (11): 1855–67.
  6. ↑ The Superhero Book on Amazon.com
  7. ↑ "list of David Roach's role playing book works". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  8. ↑ Wizards of the Coast official site
  9. ↑ official Ultramarines movie site DVD release information


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