Simon Gane

Gane's work was first published in his "self-produced punk fanzine, Arnie, and various minicomics before being collected in Punk Strips" (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000). His first work published in the United States came in 2004 with Eureka Productions in Graphic Classics #9: Robert Louis Stevenson, and the kids' Godzilla comic, All Flee! (Top Shelf Productions). After illustrating the five-issue comic Paris, written by fellow Englishman Andi Watson and published by Slave Labor Graphics, Gane found a home with Vertigo Comics, first with The Vinyl Underground and then Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story and Northlanders. Gane described The Vinyl Underground as being "set in London and featur[ing] an ad-hoc group of self-appointed detectives who become embroiled in occult-tinged crimes with a strong supporting cast of mobsters and so on." Gane is the official illustrator for the Burning Sky Brewery in East Sussex.

• Birthplace — U.K. • Pencil — y • Art — y • Nationality — British • Notable Works — The Vinyl Underground Ghost Tree • Website — http: www.SimonGane.com

Gane's work on The Vinyl Underground was deliberately drawn "in a more realistic style" than his usual (self-described as "warped") work, a move which he felt "[had] a constructive effect on my drawing and story-telling."

• (with Darryl Cunningham) Meet John Dark (Slab-O-Concrete, 1998) • Punk Strips (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000) • (with Michael Slack) Graphic Classics #9: Robert Louis Stevenson: two-part interpretation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Eureka Productions, 2004) • (with writer Gavin Burrows) All Flee! (Top Shelf Productions, 2004) • (with writer Andi Watson) Paris, 5-issue limited series (Slave Labor Graphics, 2005–2006, tpb, 144 pages, August 2007) • (with writer Si Spencer and inkers Cameron Stewart and Ryan Kelly) The Vinyl Underground #1–12 (Vertigo Comics, December 2007 – November 2008) collected as: • Watching the Detectives (collects #1–5, 128 pages, June 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1812-1) • Pretty Dead Things (collects #6–12, 128 pages, December 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1977-2) • (with writer Alex Burrows) adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's "John Barrington Cowles," Graphic Classics: Free Comic Book Day #1 (Eureka Productions, 2008) • (with writer Mat Johnson) Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story (Vertigo, August 2010) • (with writer Brian Wood) Northlanders #37–39 (Vertigo, April–June 2011) • (with writer Rob Williams) Think of a City page 20 (Internet art project, 2014) • (with writer Eric Stephenson) They're Not Like Us (Image Comics, 2014-2017) • (with writer Bobby Curnow) Ghost Tree #1–4 (IDW Publishing, 2019–2020)