Overview

Ben Oliver is a British comics artist who has worked for 2000 AD

on Judge Dredd as well as providing art for The Authority, The Losers, and Ultimate X-Men.

Biography

Ben Oliver lives in Bristol, his first professional work in England came out in 2000. He started work on Judge Dredd and then illustrated the Com.x limited series Puncture written by Russell Uttley.

His first professional work in America came out in 2003 when he got work at DC Comics imprints, like Wildstorm, Vertigo and America's Best Comics. He then moved to Marvel Comics where he worked on Ultimate X-Men, a couple of Thunderbolts one-shots with Christos Gage and a Wolverine one-shot written by Simon Spurrier.

Recent projects include returning to 2000 AD to finish of the second Ten Seconders story and to illustrate another Judge Dredd story by Al Ewing. He also returned to Wildstorm to work on "A Narrow Pass!" written by Uttley, a back-up feature running through the core Wildstorm Universe titles involved with the World's End storyline.

Ben has also done magazine covers, video game covers, Ben started to get in to comics around 1989 when the Batman films first started coming out. Following the Ultimate Marvel event Ultimatum, Ben will be penciling the Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem one shot, followed by the Dark Reign The List: Hulk one shot.