Nick Percival

Nick Percival is a British graphic artist and Graphic Novelist primarily known for his published comic book, concept artwork and career in computer animation directing.

Biography

Percival's first published work was in the monthly British comic Judge Dredd Megazine with a horror ‘strange cases’ tale written by Dave Stone. After several similar stories in the Megazine, he then went on to paint a nine-part story set in Judge Dredd’s world in the Cursed Earth, with the series, Sleeze 'n' Ryder where Nick worked with acclaimed writer Garth Ennis.

The pair would later work together again for the British weekly comic 2000 AD on the Judge Dredd epic, "Goodnight Kiss" — another tale set in the radioactive wasteland of the Cursed Earth, where Judge Dredd is hunted by the assassin, Jonni Kiss and the mutant Brotherhood of Marshalls.

Nick also painted the Sláine story, "King of Hearts" for 2000 AD where he worked with the co-creator of 2000 AD, Pat Mills.

Aside from his 2000 AD, work on various stories and painted covers, including a Dredd one-off story "Crime Prevention" with acclaimed comic book author, Mark Millar, Nick has also produced work for Marvel Comics, MTV, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck Entertainment, Boom! Studios, IDW Publishing, Electronic Arts, Sony, Warner Bros., Activision, Atari, Sci Fi Channel, History Channel, Microsoft and Fantasy Flight Games.

He also became prolific in the video game and animation industries where he ran an animation studio in the UK. He directed computer generated cut-scenes for video game such as Men in Black II: Alien Escape, Z: Steel Soldiers, Carmageddon TDR 2000 and the Games Workshop licensed video game of Gorkamorka. His company also developed their own computer generated short films and Nick presented one of these successfully at the Cartoon Movie Festival 2002 in Berlin.

Nick is the author and illustrator of Legends: The Enchanted^[1] — an original graphic novel, to be adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment.^[2]

Legends: The Enchanted won the HorrorNews Net award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2010.^[3] and was nominated for an Eagle Award for Favourite Single Story 2010.^[4]

In 2015, Nick won the 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Cover Art for his painted Nightbreed cover for Fangoria Magazine.^[5]

Nick's poster artwork for the independent horror film, 'Female Werewolf' won the Fantastic Cinema Excellence in Poster Design Award 2016.^[6]

Nick is currently developing new projects for films, TV and video games and is completing an original new graphic novel series, The Family due to be released in 2015.^[7]

Bibliography

Comics

Interior comics artwork includes:

• Strange Cases:
  • "Monsters" (with writer Dave Stone, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 1 #18, 1992)
  • "The Great Outdoors" (with writer Nicholas Barber, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 1 #19, 1992)
  • "Where the Heart is!" (with writer Nicholas Barber, in Judge Dredd Mega Special, 1992)
• Sleeze 'n' Ryder (with writer Garth Ennis, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #19-26, 1993)
• Brit-Cit Brute (with writer Robbie Morrison):
  • "Brit-Cit Brute" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #31-33, 1993)
  • "Trilogy" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #60, 1994)
• The Clown Book 2 (with writer Igor Goldkind and Robert Bliss in 2000 AD #886, 1994)
• Judge Dredd:
  • "Judge Dredd: Crime Prevention" (with writer Mark Millar in 2000 AD #872, 1994)
  • "Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss" (with writer Garth Ennis, in 2000 AD #940-948, 1995, collected in tpb Goodnight Kiss, 2001, ISBN 1-84023-346-X)
  • "Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad" (2012, US trade paperback collecting early Judge Dredd work. ISBN 978-1-78108-029-0)
  • "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files" Volume 20 (2013, UK trade paperback collecting early Judge Dredd work. ISBN 1781081417)
  • "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files" Volume 23 (2014, UK trade paperback collecting Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss. ISBN 1781082529 )
  • "Judge Dredd: Trauma Town" (with writer Michael Carroll in 2000 AD #1883-1887, 2014)
  • "Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection" #7, 22 (Hachette, 2015)
  • "Judge Dredd: The Gyre" (with writer Michael Carroll in Judge Dredd Megazine #368-370, 2016)
• Vector 13: "Case Five: Shadrach" (with writer Dan Abnett, in 2000 AD #969, 1995)
• Marvel:Portraits of a Universe: (Hulk vs Thor interior painting for Marvel Comics, 1995)
• Sláine: "King of Hearts" (with writer Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #1033-1039, 1997, collected in a European Hardback volume, 1998)
• Slaine: "Demon Killer" (with writer Pat Mills, trade paperback, 2010, ISBN 1-906735-41-7)
• Slaine: "The Grail War" (with writer Pat Mills, trade paperback, 2013, ISBN 1781081123)
• Dead of Night: Featuring Man-Thing (with writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2008, trade paperback, ISBN 978-0-7851-2860-1)
• Legends: The Enchanted (script and art, original hardcover graphic novel, Radical Comics, 2010, ISBN 1-935417-07-X)
• Legends: The Enchanted #0 (script and art, Radical Comics, 2010)
• The Family: Volume One (script and art, original hardcover graphic novel series, Nickel Editions, 2015)
• Mean Machine Angel: Tales from the Black Museum (with writer Michael Carroll, in Judge Dredd Megazine #358, 2015)
• Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #1: The Labyrinth (with writer Dan Watters, Titan Comics, 2016)
• Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #2: Action Reply (with writer George Mann, Titan Comics, 2016)

Covers

Cover artwork includes:

• 2000AD #872, 881, 948, 962, 1410, 1472, 1494, 1507, 1545, 1568, 1582, 1601, 1647, 1708, 1723, 1756, 1806, 1827, 1883, 1887, 1901, 1923
• Classic 2000AD #2
• Complete Judge Dredd #34, 36
• Overkill #41, 49 (Marvel Comics, 1994)
• Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe (Marvel Comics, 1995)
• Untamed (Boom! Studios, 2008)
• Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar #2 (Boom! Studios, 2008)
• Marshal Law: Origins (Titan Books, 2008, ISBN 1-84576-943-0)
• City of Dust #5 (Radical Comics, 2008)
• Clown Tales #1-2 (Boom! Studios, 2009)
• Hack/Slash #26 (Devil's Due Publishing, 2009)
• Stronghold (Abaddon Books, 2010)
• Legends: The Enchanted (Radical Publishing, 2010)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1-20 (Boom! Studios, 2011, 2012)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol.2 Trade Paperback (Boom! Studios, 2012)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Dark Watch Vol.3 Trade Paperback (Boom! Studios, 2014)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser Annual #1 (Boom! Studios, 2012)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Road Below #1-4 (Boom! Studios, 2012, 2013)
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Dark Watch #1, 2, 3 (Boom! Studios, 2013)
• Fangoria #303, 304, 330, 338
• H.P. Lovecraft's: The Dunwich Horror #1-4 (IDW Publishing, 2011, 2012)
• Judge Dredd #2, 3, 4 (IDW Publishing, 2013)
• Mars Attacks #9 (IDW Publishing, 2013)
• The X-Files #4 (IDW Publishing, 2013)
• Slaine pin-up artwork, 2000AD #1848
• Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #1 (IDW Publishing, 2014)
• Anderson: Psi Division #3 (IDW Publishing, 2014)
• John Carpenter's Asylum #9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (Storm King Productions, 2014, 2015)
• Judge Dredd Megazine #358, 368, 370 (2015, 2016)
• The New York Ripper Original Soundtrack Album cover (Death Waltz Recording, 2013)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night Original Soundtrack Album cover (Death Waltz Recording, 2014)
• Christmas Evil Original Soundtrack Album cover (Death Waltz Recording, 2014)
• The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael #2 (Rebellion, 2015)
• Society Blu-ray box art (Arrow Films, 2015)
• Aliens vs Zombies #1 (Zenescope Entertainment, 2015)
• Inferno #1 (Zenescope Entertainment, 2015)
• Judge Dredd Vol 2 #5 (IDW Publishing, 2016)
• Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #1, 2, 4 (Titan Comics, 2016, 2017)
• Dark Souls: Winter's Spite #1, 2 (Titan Comics, 2016)
• Assassin's Creed #13, (Titan Comics, 2016)
• Warhammer 40,000: Will Of Iron #1, 2, 3, 4 (Titan Comics, 2016, 2017)
• The Chimera Brigade #1, 3 (Titan Comics, 2016, 2017)
• ROM #5 (IDW Publishing, 2016)
• World War X #1, 2, 3, 4 (Titan Comics, 2016, 2017)
• The Guyver Blu-ray box art (Arrow Films, 2016)
• Torchwood #2.1 (Titan Comics, 2016)
• Masked: Anomalies #2 (Titan Comics, 2016)
• Samurai: Brothers in arms #4, 5 (Titan Comics, 2017)
• KHAAL #1, 2, 3 (Titan Comics, 2017)
• Forever War #1 (Titan Comics, 2017)
• Rivers of London #5 (Titan Comics, 2017)
• Hookjaw #3 (Titan Comics, 2017)
• The Mummy #4 (Titan Comics, 2017)

Other

Other illustration work includes:

• Fallout 2 Official promotional artwork (Interplay, 1998)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Races of Eberron: (Interior Artist for Wizards of the Coast, 2006, ISBN 0-7869-3658-4)
• The Art of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: (Interior Artist for Fantasy Flight Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1-58994-307-4)
• Scrye Magazine #102-105: (FW Publications, 2006, 2007)
• Fantasy Art Magazine (Cover and Interiors, 2007)
• 2D Artist Magazine (Interiors and Feature, 2008)
• Magic: The Gathering: (Artist on Set 9, 10, Coldsnap, Ravinca, Guildpact, Dissension)
• World of Warcraft: (Artist on Set 8 Fields of Strife, Set 9 Fields of Honor, Set 10)
• Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game: (Artist on Core Set F63)
• Anachronism: (Artist on Set 6)
• The Art of BOOM! Studios: (BOOM! Studios, 2012, ISBN 978-1608860364)
• Comic Heroes Magazine Vol 1 #18: Feature artwork (Future Publishing, 2013)
• The Book of Scars - 30 Years of Slaine (2000AD/Rebellion, 2013, ISBN 978-1781081761)
• 2000AD Winter Special 2014 2000AD Zombies pin-up artwork (2000AD/Rebellion, 2014)
• Queen of Blood (Film poster, 2014)
• Female Werewolf (Film poster, 2015)
• FANGORIA: Cover to Cover (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2015, ISBN 978-1587674501)
• Voices of the Damned Interior artwork (SST Publications, 2015, ISBN 978-1-909640-35-1)
• John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 2 (Storm King Productions, 2016, ISBN 978-0997059922)
• Hellraiser: Blind Sadist (Seraphim Films, 2017)

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Nick Percival at DeviantArt
• Nick Percival on Facebook
• Nick Percival on Twitter
  

Interviews

• Isaac D (March 28, 2008). "Nick Percival Interview". Hero Spy. 
• Elisabeth (November 23, 2009). "Nick Percival Talks About His Steampunk Fairytale, Legends". Blog From Another World. Things From Another World. 
• Arrant, Chris (December 2, 2009). "War of the Fairy Tales in LEGENDS". Newsarama. 
• Rodrik, Alex (December 23, 2009). "Nick Percival: These Ain't Your Grandma's Fairy Tales Anymore...Legends". Comics Bulletin.