Mike Collins is an English comic book artist and writer who has worked in the comics industry since the mid-1980s. He's worked on projects by major comic book studios such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
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Biography
Collins moved to Wales from London in 1985, switching career from law, to illustrate comics full time. He married Karen Collins and they have three daughters, and a granddaughter. Collins currently lives in Cardiff. He is the grandson of Military Medal-winning World War I soldier Thomas Guinane.
UK comics
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Collins wrote and drew strips for Marvel Comics United Kingdom division, amongst them; Spider-Man, Transformers, Doctor Who, and Zoids. He also worked on the celebrated UK weekly comic 2000 AD drawing Judge Dredd, Sláine and Rogue Trooper, as well as writing various Future Shocks. Collins illustrated the six-issue limited series Laser Eraser and Pressbutton for Eclipse Comics, illustrating the work of Pedro Henry (aka Steve Moore). He also did the art for a number of Axel Pressbutton stories which ran in Eclipse's Miracleman series.