Dave Gibbons, born April 14th in 1949, has been playing a major role in the world of comics for nearly 30 years now. He began his comics career in 1973, when he started to contribute to the magazine 2000. Since then he has drawn and written for all the major publishers in North America and his home country Great Britain. His work has been and still is published all over the world. He has depicted the adventures of SUPERMAN, BATMAN, DR WHO, DAN DARE and GREEN LANTERN, amongst many many others.He co-created the long running ROGUE TROOPER for 2000AD, where he also worked on HARLEM HEROES In 1982, he began drawing the 'Green Lantern' series.for a really cool run. Real big success came when he collaborated with Alan Moore on the famous'WATCHMEN' for D.C. comics in 1986/87, for wihc he got an Hugo award. Among his many many other works are the continuing, award-winning saga of MARTHA WASHINGTON, with Frank Miller, writing 'BATMAN VERSUS PREDATOR', illustrated by Andy Kubert, and 'WORLD’S FINEST’ featuring Superman and Batman, illustrated by Steve Rude and recently collaborated with Stan Lee on DC’s JUST IMAGINE series with GREEN LANTERN He has also done work with electronic media,designing the world and characters used in the CD-ROM game 'Beneath a Steel Sky'. His contributions to comics are just too numerous to mention them all here, go look at the checklist to find out about all of his work. He currently lives in Britain with his wife and son and you can see him frequently at conventions there. Oh, and he knows about the chimpanses named Gibbons since school ;-)