An informative and entertaining story of British comics art, taking in the cartooning of the nineteenth century, the rise of "2000 AD" and the burgeoning of British comics art's international influence. Cover illustration from Brian Bolland of "Batman: The Killing Joke" fame.

David Roach stormed on to the 2000 AD scene with Book 8 of Nemesis the Warlock, before going on to illustrate Judge Anderson, Judge Dredd, Killer, Past Imperfect and Synammon as well as providing the inks for Killer and Rogue Trooper. Outside of 2000 AD he has worked on various titles including Batman, Star Wars, Star Trek and Aliens. He has also provided hundreds of illustrations for Wizards of The Coast's classic RPG Dungeons & Dragons.