Nick Percival

Nick Percival
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Colorist
http://www.nickpercival.com

Nick Percival is an British graphic artist primarily known for his published comic book, concept artwork and career in computer animation.

Biography

Percival's first published work was in the monthly British comic Judge Dredd Megazine with a horror ‘strange cases’ tale written by Dave Stone. After several similar stories in the Megazine, he then went on to paint a nine part story set in Judge Dredd’s world in the Cursed Earth, with the series, Sleeze 'n' Ryder where Nick worked with acclaimed writer Garth Ennis.

The pair would later work together again for the British weekly comic 2000 AD on the Judge Dredd epic, "Goodnight Kiss" — another tale set in the radioactive wasteland of the Cursed Earth, where Judge Dredd is hunted by the assassin, Jonni Kiss and the mutant Brotherhood of Marshalls.

Nick also painted the Sláine story, "King of Hearts" for 2000 AD where he worked with the co-creator of 2000 AD, Pat Mills.

Aside from his 2000 AD, work on various stories and painted covers, including a Dredd one-off story "Crime Prevention" with acclaimed comic book author, Mark Millar, Nick has also produced work for Marvel Comics, MTV, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck Entertainment, Boom! Studios, IDW Publishing, Electronic Arts, Sony, Warner Bros., Activision, Atari, Sci Fi Channel, History Channel, Microsoft and Fantasy Flight Games.

He also became prolific in the video game and animation industries where he ran an animation studio in the UK. He directed computer generated cut-scenes for video game such as Alien Escape, Z: Steel Soldiers, Carmageddon TDR 2000 and the Games Workshop licensed video game of Gorkamorka. His company also developed their own computer generated short films and Nick presented one of these successfully at the Cartoon Movie Festival 2002 in Berlin.

Nick is the author and illustrator of Legends: The Enchanted — an original graphic novel, to be adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment.

Legends: The Enchanted won the HorrorNews Net award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2010. and was nominated for an Eagle Award for Favourite Single Story 2010.

Nick is currently developing new projects for films, TV and video games.

Bibliography

Comics

Interior comics work includes:

• Strange Cases:
  • "Monsters" (with Dave Stone, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 1 #18, 1992)
  • "The Great Outdoors" (with Nicholas Barber, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 1 #19, 1992)
  • "Where the Heart is!" (with Nicholas Barber, in Judge Dredd Mega Special, 1992)

• Sleeze 'n' Ryder (with Garth Ennis, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #19-26, 1993)

• Brit-Cit Brute (with Robbie Morrison):
  • "Brit-Cit Brute" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #31-33, 1993)
  • "Trilogy" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #60, 1994)

• The Clown Book 2 (with Igor Goldkind and Robert Bliss in 2000 AD #886, 1994)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Crime Prevention" (with Mark Millar in 2000 AD #872, 1994)
  • "Goodnight Kiss" (with Garth Ennis, in 2000 AD #940-948, 1995, collected in tpb Goodnight Kiss, 2001, ISBN 184023346X)

• Vector 13: "Case Five: Shadrach" (with Dan Abnett, in 2000 AD #969, 1995)
• Marvel:Portraits of a Universe: (Hulk vs Thor interior painting for Marvel Comics, 1995)
• Sláine: "King of Hearts" (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #1033-1039, 1997, collected in a European Hardback volume, 1998)
• Slaine: "Demon Killer" (with Pat Mills, trade paperback, 2010, ISBN 1906735417)
• Dead of Night: Featuring Man-Thing (with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2008, trade paperback, ISBN 9780785128601)
• Legends: The Enchanted (script and art, original hardcover graphic novel, Radical Comics, 2010, ISBN 193541707X)
• Legends: The Enchanted #0 (script and art, Radical Comics, 2010)

Covers

Comic covers include:

• 2000AD #872, 881, 948, 962, 1410, 1472, 1494, 1507, 1545, 1568, 1582, 1601, 1647, 1708, 1723
• Classic 2000AD #2
• Complete Judge Dredd #34, 36
• Overkill #41, 49 (Marvel Comics, 1994)
• Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe (Marvel Comics, 1995)
• Untamed (Boom! Studios, 2008)
• Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar #2 (Boom! Studios, 2008)
• Marshal Law: Origins (Titan Books, 2008, ISBN 1845769430)
• City of Dust #5 (Radical Comics, 2008)
• Clown Tales #1-2 (Boom! Studios, 2009)
• Hack/Slash #26 (Devil's Due Publishing, 2009)
• Stronghold (Abaddon Books, 2010)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1-12 (Boom! Studios, 2011)
• Fangoria #303, 304 (2011)
• H.P. Lovecraft's: The Dunwich Horror #1-4 (IDW Publishing, 2011)

Other

Other illustration work includes:

• Dungeons & Dragons: Races of Eberron: (Interior Artist for Wizards of the Coast, 2006, ISBN 0786936584)
• The Art of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: (Interior Artist for Fantasy Flight Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1589943074)
• Magic The Gathering: (Artist on Set 9, 10, Coldsnap, Ravinca, Guildpact, Dissension)
• World of Warcraft: (Artist on Set 8 Fields of Strife, Set 9 Fields of Honor, Set 10)

References

• Nick Percival at the Grand Comics Database
• Nick Percival at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Nick Percival at Barney
• Nick Percival at Lambiek's COmiclopedia
• Nick Percival at the RPG DB

External links

• Official website
• Nick Percival at DeviantArt
• Template:Myspace
• Nick Percival on Facebook
• Nick Percival on Twitter

Interviews

• Isaac D (March 28, 2008). "Nick Percival Interview". Hero Spy.
• Elisabeth (November 23, 2009). "Nick Percival Talks About His Steampunk Fairytale, Legends". Blog From Another World. Things From Another World.
• Arrant, Chris (December 2, 2009). "War of the Fairy Tales in LEGENDS". Newsarama.
• Rodrik, Alex (December 23, 2009). "Nick Percival: These Ain't Your Grandma's Fairy Tales Anymore...Legends". Comics Bulletin.