SIMON GANE

British artist Simon Gane lives and works in Bath as a magazine and children’s book illustrator and graphic designer. His first published strips appeared in the self-produced punk fanzine Arnie, and others followed in self-contained mini comics and eventually the collection Punk Strips. He recently completed All Flee, a comic about a “finishing school for monsters” and is working on a four-issue series set in the Paris and New York of the 1950s for Slave Labor Graphics. “I especially enjoyed drawing The Policeman and the Citizen in Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce,” says Simon, “because it encompasses many of my favorite themes: alcohol, police aggression, a past-times setting and a sense that whilst largely forgotten now, comics remain a peerless medium for satire.” For Is He Living or Is He Dead?, in Graphic Classics: Mark Twain, Simon spent time sketching in Menton, the setting of the story, which contributes to the rich backgrounds and detail that are also evident in his interpretation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson and The Invisible Man in the second edition of Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells.

Simon is now working on a new adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes tale for the second edition of Graphic Classics: Arthur Conan Doyle.