Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons (born 1949) is a comics artist and occasionally writer (and even more occasionally letterer) who started in the industry working for various action and horror titles for both DC Thomson and IPC, though arguably his big break was on 2000AD, where he drew Harlem Heroes for the first 24 issues before moving on to Dan Dare, Ro-Busters, Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd and Tharg's Future Shocks amongst others, as well as drawing Doctor Who for Marvel UK from 1979 and some material for Warrior in the early 1980's. He later went on to have a successful career with America's DC Comics working on such characters as Green Lantern, and famously co-created the hit series 'Watchmen' with Alan Moore.

Possibly the most infamous point in Dave's career, however, was the period he spent as life model for the photographic adventures of Big E, the fictional super-editor of Tornado comic...