John Cooper

John Cooper (born 1942) is a veteran British comics artist whose numerous credits include One Eyed Jack (for Valiant), Johnny Red and Gaunt (for Battle Picture Weekly and Eagle), Computer Warrior (for Eagle), The Lawless Touch (for Tornado), Dredger (for Action), Armitage (for the Judge Dredd Megazine), Timequake (for the Star-Lord Summer Special and Judge Dredd, M.A.C.H One, Abelard Snazz and Tharg's Future Shocks (for 2000 AD) as well as M.A.S.K stories for both M.A.S.K and Eagle and stories for the short lived Ring Raiders, Scream! and Super Naturals titles, Roy of the Rovers, and Dixie of Dollycabs for Mirabelle. He broke into comics in 1963 drawing Agent 21 for TV Comic (a title he would later return to on occasion, drawing strips such as Grange Hill and Worzel Gummidge) and later worked on various Gerry Anderson related strips for TV Century 21 in the 1960s and on titles including Bullet and Wendy for DC Thomson in 1976-77 and Blake's 7, Doctor Who and Biker Mice from Mars for Marvel UK in the 1980s, but the bulk of his work was for IPC. In the 1990s he also drew Striker for The Sun, and various satirical strips for Private Eye.