Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill was the co-creator with Pat Mills of A.B.C. Warriors, Marshal Law, Metalzoic, Nemesis the Warlock, and Ro-Buster. He co-created the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Alan Moore. O'Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for Buster, which was a children's humour title. By 1976 he was working as a colourist on Disney comics reprints and British children's comics such as Monster Fun and Whizzer and Chips. From the start of 200AD, Kevin O'Neill provided art for pin-ups and covers, including the centre image of Tharg on the cover of the first issue of 2000AD, bodging and introducing creator credits. He eventually started drawing short Tharg the Mighty strips, Future Shocks and various humorous short stories. In issue 88 of 2000AD O'Neill started work on Ro-Busters, his first major ongoing strip for the title and the first of what would become a long series of collaborations with writer Pat Mills, while he established himself as a major 2000AD creator. In 1999 O'Neill teamed up with Alan Moore for a six issue series for America's Best Comics called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This teamed up various characters in Victorian literature such as Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain and Dr. Jekyll. The title was followed by further series.