Martin Asbury

Martin Asbury is a British comic and storyboard artist best known for drawing Garth in the Daily Mirror from 1976 to 1997 (following the death of Frank Bellamy), and for his colour adaptations o0f various TV shows in Look-In. He has worked for numerous publishers including DC Thomson (on strips in Bunty and Hotspur), the one-off story One Man's Meat in Warrior #18, and the TV focused titles TV Century 21 (on Joe 90) and Countdown/TV Action (on Captain Scarlet and Cannon). For Look-In he drew various strips including Kung-Fu and The Six Million Dollar Man until 1981, and he briefly drew Doctor Who in TV Comic in 1975, as well as a Star Wars strip in TV Times in 1982. He branched out into movie storyboarding in 1984 and is now one of the foremost storyboard artists in the international film community, with credits including Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan (1984), Legend (1985), Labyrinth (1986), Willow (1988), Alien 3 (1992), Goldeneye (1995), Fierce Creatures (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), Chicken Run (2000), Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets and Die Another Day (2002), Batman Begins (2005), Casino Royale (2006), Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows parts 1 and 2 (2010 and 2011), Captain America: the First Avenger (2011) and Skyfall (2012).