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Mike Collins is an English comic book artist and writer and has been working in comics since the mid-1980s.
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Mike Collins is an English comic book artist and writer and has been working in comics since the mid-1980s.
Collins moved to Wales in 1985 after an abortive stab[ unbalanced opinion? ] at a career in the law, in London. Despite his law degree and experience working in law courts Mike decided that he enjoyed the fiction-based life of comic book characters over the fiction-based statements of clients. He was married to Karen Collins and they have three daughters, Bethan, Rebecca and Rhiannon and a granddaughter Annie. He lives in Cardiff. He is the grandson of Military Medal-winning World War One soldier Thomas Guinane.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Mike wrote and drew strips for Marvel Comics United Kingdom division, amongst them; Spider-Man , Transformers , Doctor Who , and Zoids . He also worked on the celebrated UK weekly comic 2000 AD drawing Judge Dredd , Sláine and Rogue Trooper , as well as writing various Future Shocks . Collins illustrated the six-issue limited series Laser Eraser and Pressbutton for Eclipse Comics, illustrating the work of Pedro Henry (aka Steve Moore). He also did the art for a number of Axel Pressbutton stories which ran in Eclipse's Miracleman series.
He was hired in the 'Second Wave' of British artists lured to the United States in the late 1980s. Through the 1990s, he worked primarily for DC Comics on their key titles – Batman , Superman , Flash , Teen Titans , Wonder Woman , and the Justice League .
He also drew a series of licensed comics for the company, using various TSR, Inc./ Dungeons & Dragons characters. A brief spell at Marvel saw Mike working on Uncanny X-Men (Key issue: #266, the first appearance of Gambit). He was back to DC though, to write and draw Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt , a revival of a 1960s Charlton Comics character.
Mike's primarily known for his work on TV and movie tie-in comics- for both Marvel and DC he has written and drawn Star Trek comics. In the late 1990s, he drew a Babylon 5 mini-series, "In Valen's Name", written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski and Peter David. A departure from most tie-in productions in that it actually serves as series 'canon' being based on an unused 3rd season script.
Currently, the artist (and sometime writer) on Panini Comics' Doctor Who Magazine , Collins also wrote and drew a strip for the Weekly World News , as well as co-creating the series American Gothic with Ian Edginton for 2000 AD.
Outside of comics Collins has painted covers to a monthly series of downloadable Star Trek novels, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers , and works as a storyboard artist for both animation and live-action TV and movies.
Major work recently published is a 135-page adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Classical Comics. His regular Doctor Who collaborators, inker David Roach and colour artist James Offredi, worked with him on the book, with the script writer being Sean Michael Wilson. The graphic novel was chosen as one of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of the year by The Sunday Times and has gone on to sell well across by the UK and US, with several foreign language versions also coming out.[ citation needed ]
For BBC Books he drew The Only Good Dalek — the first graphic novel from the publisher, written by longtime Doctor Who author Justin Richards, and a sequel/prequel to the TV episode "Victory of the Daleks," The Dalek Project.
He wrote and designed the first ever Welsh language graphic novel – Mabinogi in association with Cartwyn Cymru in 2001, and is the first UK artist to produce a series of graphic novels for Norway with Gunnar Staalesen, featuring his celebrated private eye, Varg Veum.
He works as a key illustrator for Welsh language school books using the comic strip medium, aimed at reluctant learners.
He supplied art for a number of cards in the Harry Potter Trading Card Game.
As well as comics work, Mike is a storyboard artist for children's TV shows, primarily the BAFTA winning Hana's Helpline , and live-action film. He also storyboarded on the film Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie and on the television shows Doctor Who , The Witcher and Sex Education .[ citation needed ]
"Fairlyhyperman" (with John Wagner and Alan Grant in "2000 AD" #529 and #530)
"And the Wind Cried" art by Collins (with Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #637) ,
"Doomsday" (with John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.58–3.59, 1999)
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