For aspiring writers and artists in Britain, the idea that they could get their hands on comicdom’s biggest and most thoroughly American icons might seem implausible – and yet, over the last decade, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie have managed to do just that, forging a creative partnership that resulted in mainstream comic book success beyond Britain’s borders.
It’s not the first time Brits have conquered US comics, of course. In the late 1980s, the American mainstream saw a raft of UK-based writers and artists making their mark in an industry which had, until then, been almost exclusively the preserve of domestic talent. Within a few years, the creators of the so-called British Invasion would produce some of the medium’s definitive works – the likes of Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
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