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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none William Simpson Real Name William Simpson Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] Characteristics Gender First publication Unknown
- William Simpson is a Northern Irish comic artist. He started off working in British comics anthologies such as Warrior and 2000 AD, and has written for such comics as Batman, Judge Dredd, and Hellblazer. In the 2000s, his career turned towards working as a movie storyboard artist, on films such as Reign of Fire and City of Ember. William Simpson created the artwork that features in the Complete Guide to Westeros.
- He grew up in Prehen, near Derry, and his earliest work was for the Belfast anthology Ximoc in the early 1980s. This led to professional work in the UK, drawing "Big Ben" in Warrior in 1984, and a run on Transformers for Marvel UK in 1985-1987. His first work for 2000AD, a Future Shock, came in 1985, and he was a regular on the magazine from 1987 to 1991, drawing Universal Soldier (1987), Judge Dredd, including episodes of the epic "Oz" (1987-88), and "Tale of the Dead Man", coloured by his wife Wendy (1990), and Tyranny Rex (1988). He provided painted art for several Judge Dredd stories, as well as the Rogue Trooper reboot "The War Machine" in 1989-90. In 1991 he created "Sex Warrior" with writers Pat Mills and Tony Skinner for Toxic!.
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| - He grew up in Prehen, near Derry, and his earliest work was for the Belfast anthology Ximoc in the early 1980s. This led to professional work in the UK, drawing "Big Ben" in Warrior in 1984, and a run on Transformers for Marvel UK in 1985-1987. His first work for 2000AD, a Future Shock, came in 1985, and he was a regular on the magazine from 1987 to 1991, drawing Universal Soldier (1987), Judge Dredd, including episodes of the epic "Oz" (1987-88), and "Tale of the Dead Man", coloured by his wife Wendy (1990), and Tyranny Rex (1988). He provided painted art for several Judge Dredd stories, as well as the Rogue Trooper reboot "The War Machine" in 1989-90. In 1991 he created "Sex Warrior" with writers Pat Mills and Tony Skinner for Toxic!. 1991 was the year he made the move into American comics. With writer Garth Ennis, he took over on DC's horror title Hellblazer, which he drew until 1993. He drew an Aliens miniseries, "Rogue", for Dark Horse Comics in 1993, and 1994 co-created the sexy vampire miniseries Vamps for DC/Vertigo, with writer Elaine Lee, which returned for two more minseries in 1996 and 1998. Also with Lee, he drew the first issue of Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny for Dark Horse in 1995. He drew a three part Batman story, "Freak Out", written by Ennis, in Legends of the Dark Knight in 1997. Other titles he has drawn include Excalibur (Marvel, 1992), Animal Man (DC, 1993) and Punisher 2099 (Marvel, 1994). In recent years he has concentrated primarily on illustration and filmmaking. With his brother Ken, he runs the animation company Rogue Rocket, and he has drawn storyboards for films by Neil Jordan, Richard Attenborough, Rob Bowman and Gil Kenan, and directed short films. However, he still occasionally returns to comics. For 2000AD, he drew Witch World in 1997 and Judge Dredd in 2001. In 2007 he drew the framing sequence for Back on the Road, an anthology of interconnected comic strips set in the south Belfast district of Ballynafeigh, published by the Ballynafeigh Community Development Association and featuring the work of a number of local artists. He is working on a forthcoming comics spin-off of the 2000 film 24 Hours in London, which he storyboarded, entitled 24 Hours in London: Shades of Grey for Renegade Arts Entertainment, the first issue of which was published electronically in 2010.
- William Simpson is a Northern Irish comic artist. He started off working in British comics anthologies such as Warrior and 2000 AD, and has written for such comics as Batman, Judge Dredd, and Hellblazer. In the 2000s, his career turned towards working as a movie storyboard artist, on films such as Reign of Fire and City of Ember. Simpson is the leader Storyboard Artist for Game of Thrones. Much of his work on the series involves sketching out an episode director's vision into an initial comic strip version for visual reference. Simpson has also contributed to the concept design of various things in the series, such as creature design for the dragons, direwolves, and particularly the Three-eyed raven. William Simpson created the artwork that features in the Complete Guide to Westeros.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none William Simpson Real Name William Simpson Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] Characteristics Gender First publication Unknown
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