Andi Watson

Andrew " Andi " Watson (born 1969 in Wakefield, United Kingdom ) is a British comic book artist and illustrator known for the " Graphic Novels " Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Love Fights current.

Andi Watson was born in Yorkshire and raised by parents who belong to the working class. He studied art at undergraduate level in Dewsbury College, followed by a graphic design and illustration course at Liverpool Polytechnic. He currently lives in Stoke -on-Trent.

Watson appear on German works, especially when small publishing Modern Tales / Eidalon.

Early work

For his thesis Watson produced short-run comic Samurai Jam along with T -shirts and bubble gum cards. The comic is rooted in the skateboard and punk rock culture and has been artistically influenced by Japanese manga, especially Akira, and the American alternative comic Love and Rockets. Three editions were produced in 1993, photocopied and, using a stencil, sprayed the cover that sparked some interest in the British short-run comic scene.

Watson sought access to various American publishers and was adopted in 1993 by Dan Vado of Slave Labor Graphics, published four editions of Samurai Jam. These were not a success, partly to blame were the lot to different art styles that Watson used in every issue, but Vado is not obstructed, and Watson returned in 1995 with Skeleton Key, a -monthly, 16 - page comic, back which 30 issues long run and cemented his reputation.

After Skeleton Key Watson went to Oni Press, the luggage Geisha, a graphic novel about a young artist who is a robot. Instead, respond to the fact that she is a robot, Watson used the story to examine the ideas of real and spuriousness. The book was an artistic bridge between the manga -inspired skeleton key and its current, more European style of Watson.

Late work

One of the original Geisha miniseries nachgeschobener Oneshot marked a dramatic upheaval in Watson's style. He brought a stylistic influences of European artists such as François Avril and Dupuy - Berberian ( Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian ), but retained the slow narrative style of the long manga. This bore fruit in Breakfast After Noon, a story about " a slice of life " in the industrial Midlands of Britain. This was followed by the novella Dumped, a love story, produced in collaboration with the BIG festival in Turin.

Watson returned in 2002 with Slow News Day to Slave Labor back, a graphic novel about a small British town newspaper that deals with the English attitude toward Americans and the theme " Big words - Small audience " dealing.

His current work is published by Oni romantic comedy series Love Fights and Paris, a graphic novel for Slave Labor, scripted by Watson with Simon Gane as an artist.

Contract work

Andi Watson has worked as a clerk at various licensed products, the most important would be to call Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dark Horse Comics and Namor from Marvel Comics.

List of major works

To date, published in Germany works:

  • The Complete Geisha ( Oni ) (Eng. "Geisha " by Modern Tales / Eidalon )
  • Breakfast After Noon ( Oni ) ( dt at Modern Tales / Eidalon )
  • Little Star ( Oni ) ( dt at Modern Tales / Eidalon )

To date, only in English:

  • The Complete Samurai Jam ( Slave Labor )
  • Skeleton Key v1: Beyond The Threshold ( Slave Labor )
  • Skeleton Key v2: The Celestial Calendar ( Slave Labor )
  • Skeleton Key v3: Telling Tales ( Slave Labor )
  • Skeleton Key v4: Cats and Dogs ( Slave Labor )
  • Skeleton Key v5: Roots ( Slave Labor )
  • Dumped ( Oni )
  • Slow News Day ( Slave Labor )
  • Love Fights vol 1 ( Oni )
  • Love Fights vol 2 ( Oni )
  • Paris ( Slave Labor )
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