Simon Fraser is a British comics artist best known for his work on Nikolai Dante, a series he created with writer Robbie Morrison in 2000 AD. Simon Fraser no longer works on this strip (it was handed to John Burns (comics)) although it is rumoured that he will be working on it again in the near future.
His early work includes Lux and Alby Sign on and Save the Universe, a collaboration with novelist Martin Millar, in 1992. Despite having little interest in football, he worked on Roy of the Rovers, including drawing the character's final appearance in 1995. This led to David Bishop's commissioning him to work on Shimura in the Judge Dredd Megazine, where he first collaborated with Robbie Morrison.
The pair then created Nikolai Dante, a swashbuckling adventure story set amid dynastic intrigue in a future Russia, which debuted in 2000 AD in 1997. Fraser was the main artist on the strip, occasionally rotating with other artists, until 2002; the primary artist since then has been John M. Burns. Also for 2000 AD, Fraser has drawn a number of Judge Dredd stories.
Returning to the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2003, he collaborated with writer Rob Williams on Family, a black and white series about a Mafia family with superhuman powers, which has recently been published as a collected edition. In 2005 he drew a four-part adaptation of Richard Matheson's Hell House, scripted by Ian Edginton and published by IDW.
He is currently working on two as-yet unpublished projects for the Franco-Belgian market, Axelle, written by Eric Stoffel, and the self-penned Lilly MacKenzie and the Mines of Charybdis.
Bibliography
Comics work includes
- Lux and Alby Sign On and Save the Universe
- Roy of the Rovers
- Shimura (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 72-77, 1995; vol.3 # 14-17, 1996, vol.3 # 34, 1997)
- Nikolai Dante (in 2000 AD from 1997)
- Judge Dredd
- Family (in Judge Dredd Megazine #201-207, 2003)
- Hell House (4 issues, IDW, 2005)
External links
- Artist's website
- 2000 AD profile
- Simon Fraser at MySpace
- 2002 interview with 2000ADReview
- 2005 interview with The Nexus
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