The cover to Love Fights vol 1

Andrew "Andi" Watson (1969 - ) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his current series Love Fights. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... A cartoonist at work. ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with comic book. ...

Andi Watson was born and raised in Yorkshire to working class parents. He studied foundation art at Dewsbury college followed by a graphic design / illustration course at Liverpool Polytechnic. He currently lives in Stoke-on-Trent. The White Yorkshire rose. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... Example Illustration 1. ... Liverpool John Moores University is a university in Liverpool, United Kingdom. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ...

Early Works

For his final degree show Watson produced the small press comic Samurai Jam along with t-shirts and bubble-gum cards. The comic was rooted in skateboarding and punk rock culture and artistically influenced by Japanese Manga, specifically Akira, and the American alternative comic Love and Rockets. Three issues were produced by 1993, photocopied with covers spray-painted with a stencil, which generated some interest within the British small press comics scene. A scattered but thriving community of Amateur and Professional creators, publishers and enthusiasts from the UK. More often these mainly self-published comics are done for the love of comics than money. ... See comedian Stand up comedian List of Comedians List of British comedians comics comic book comic strip underground comics alternative comics web comic sprite comics manga graphic novel List of comic characters This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... An Inward Heelflip Skateboarding is the act of rolling on or interacting with a skateboard. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a manga and 1988 anime movie by Katsuhiro Otomo. ... The term alternative comics is one of several labels applied to a range of comic books, graphic novels, and allied forms that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. ... Love and Rockets is a black and white comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez -- sometimes cited jointly as Los Bros. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A scattered but thriving community of Amateur and Professional creators, publishers and enthusiasts from the UK. More often these mainly self-published comics are done for the love of comics than money. ...

Watson approached various American publishers and was taken on by Dan Vado of Slave Labor Graphics in 1993 who published four issues of Samurai Jam. These were not a success, due in part to the wildly different art styles Watson employed with each issue, but Vado kept the door open and Watson returned in 1995 with Skeleton Key, a monthly 16 page comic than ran for 30 issues and cemented his reputation. Slave Labor Graphics (often abbreviated SLG) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After Skeleton Key Watson moved to Oni Press with Geisha, a graphic novel about a robot girl artist. Rather that approach the issue of her being a robot Watson used the story to examine ideas of fake and real. The book was an artistic bridge for Watson between the manga-inspired Skeleton Key and his current, more European, style. Oni Press is an independent comic book publisher founded in 1997 with the stated intention of publishing original works deemed too risky or unusual by the largest publishers. ...

Later Works

The Geisha one-shot comic marked a dramatic shift in Watson's style, bringing in stylistic influences from European creators such as François Avril and Dupy and Berberian, but retaining the slow pacing of long-form Manga. This came to fruition with Breakfast After Noon, a "slice of life" story set in the industrial Midlands of Britain. This was followed by the novella Dumped, a love story produced in association with the BIG festival in Turin. Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... In general, the midlands of a territory are its central regions. ... Location within Italy Region Piedmont Province Turin Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45° 04′ N, 7° 40′ E1. ...

Watson returned to Slave Labor in 2002 with Slow News Day, a graphic novel set around a small town British newspaper which dealt with English attitudes to Americans and the theme of big verses small audience. Slave Labor Graphics (often abbreviated SLG) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His current work is the romantic comedy series Love Fights published by Oni along with Paris, a graphic novel for Slave Labor scripted by Watson with art by Simon Gane Oni Press is an independent comic book publisher founded in 1997 with the stated intention of publishing original works deemed too risky or unusual by the largest publishers. ... Slave Labor Graphics (often abbreviated SLG) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. ...

Work for Hire

Andi Watson has worked as the writer on a variety of licensed properties, most significantly Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics' Namor. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ... Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book publisher, one of the largest independent publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ... Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional character featured in Marvel Comics, and one of the oldest superhero characters. ...

List of Significant Works

• 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)
• The Complete Geisha (Oni)
• Breakfast After Noon (Oni)
• Dumped (Oni)
• Slow News Day (Slave Labor)
• Love Fights vol 1 (Oni)
• Love Fights vol 2 (Oni)
• Paris (Slave Labor)

External Links

• Andi Watson's website
• Love Fights at Oni Press
• Preview of Paris at Slave Labor Graphics
• Extract of Comics Journal interview from 2002

References

• Gravett, Paul (2002) "Interview : Andi Watson" The Comics Journal 248 41-55