Mark Millar

Mark Millar, MBE, is a Scottish comics writer who was born on Christmas Eve in 1969 and is not yet dead. He has four brothers, a sister and a website, and claims that Alan Moore and Frank Miller are "my Mum and Dad." Millar is a practising Catholic who as a child was influenced by Spider-Man to draw a spider-web on his face with indelible pen, which his parents were unable to scrub off before his Holy Communion photo (although if they really were Alan Moore and Frank Miller it's hard to see why they'd want to).

Millar's first work in the medium was writing Saviour with Daniel Vallely, published by Trident, while he was at secondary school. He then went to Glasgow University to study politics and economics, dropping out when he ran out of money. Millar is probably best known for his work for DC/Vertigo and Marvel, but he has also written extensively for 2000 AD. His works include four episodes of Tharg's Future Shocks, Silo, Judge Dredd, Tales from Beyond Science, Spider (before the publishers found out they didn't own the rights to the character), Rogue Trooper, Purgatory, Tharg's Terror Tales, Maniac 5, Canon Fodder, The Grudge Father, Babe Race 2000 and Janus: Psi-Division.

Millar and Grant Morrison co-created the character of Big Dave. Dave has been described as "controversial," "infamous" and "puerile rubbish," but he isn't half as controversial as Millar's reboot of Robo-Hunter, which left some people doubting if he'd read the original story.

Millar has also worked for Crisis, Revolver and Sonic the Comic. He founded a British comics magazine called CLiNT, which is supposed to be funny because it looks a bit like a rude word. This is despite the fact that his religious beliefs apparently mean he never uses any swearwords himself. He just writes comics full of them, which seems a bit... Pharisaical.