Mike Collins

Initially training to be a lawyer, Mike had always wanted to tell stories in pictures. Driven by a love of comics and animation he abandoned the life of a bewigged barrister and instead has spent the last 35 years writing and drawing adventures featuring the most iconic heroes in the US, UK and Europe. For Marvel Comics he's drawn the X-Men, Sub-Mariner and contributed to a Hugo nominated Captain Britain Graphic Novel 'Vampire State'. He's drawn Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Flash amongst others, for DC Comics. For both companies, he's written and drawn graphic stories featuring the many incarnations of Star Trek. In the UK he's been the main artist on the relaunched Doctor Who franchise for Panini and has drawn BBC graphic novels The Only Good Dalek and The Dalek Project. For Norway, he's the artist on the Varg Veum series of graphic novels, written by the character's creator Gunnar Staalesen. He's also author of the first Welsh language graphic novel Y Mabinogi, itself an adaptation of an animated feature based on the Welsh myth cycle. Outside of comics, he's also written for the Star Trek book series - 'Starfleet Corps of Engineers'. The Classical Comics adaptation of Dicken's A Christmas Carol drawn by Mike made it into The Daily Telegraph's Top Ten graphic novels of that year. These days he's principally the storyboard artist on the DOCTOR WHO tv show, but has also recently boarded Good Omens , A Discovery of Witches and His Dark Materials for Amazon Prime and the BBC. He also the artist on the critically acclaimed APOLLO graphic novel written by Chris Baker and Matt Fitch, detailing the first Moon landing. Based in Cardiff, Wales his studio is a stone's throw away from The Rift featured in the Torchwood TV series. Often, after a day spent drawing the comic book adventures of Doctor Who he finds himself walking through the filming of the actual show.