Mike Collins

Mike Collins is a Welsh comics writer and artist, having worked for many of the major comic companies in the US and UK including, DC comics, 2000AD, Marvel Comics and Panini UK.

Collins pencilled many early issues of the UK Transformers title, and is also memorably known for serving as the artist on the four 1985 Ladybird Books titles. Collins's style in his Transformers work, be it comic or book, favoured using the actual toys' designs instead of the more common comic/animation model sheets because when he started there were no available model sheets. When he visited the US, Bob Budiansky learned about this and gave Collins a copy of the 'bible', which Collins brought back "Moses-with-the-Tablets like".

In addition he wrote the first and final parts of the Marvel UK story "Crisis of Command!".

Despite a long and storied career in TV, comics, and movies, he considers his cover to Christmas Breaker! to be his most significant and reproduced work.

Notes

• A European toy company bought the licensing rights for some unreleased Japanese Transformers toys and asked Marvel UK to make a comic about them. As Simon Furman was busy with Transformers, Collins was asked to work on a pitch with James Hill before Hasbro just went and bought out their rival.

External links

• Mike Collins personal site
• Mike Collins on Wikipedia
• Mike Collins MySpace profile
• Mike Collins at deviantART