Steve Parkhouse


Steve Parkhouse is a writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially 2000 AD and Doctor Who Magazine.

Biography

Parkhouse has been in comics since 1967, when he was drawing the occasional 'Power House Pin-Up' of Marvel superheroes for the back covers of Fantastic and Terrific, two British weeklies published by Odhams. In 1969 his first professional writing assignments appeared when he co-wrote two Marvel Comics stories, one starring the jungle lord Ka-Zar in Marvel Super-Heroes No. 19, and the other starring the eponymous superspy in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. No. 12. He also contributed a story for Western Gunfighters No. 4, pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith
Since then he has worked on a wide range of titles from 2000 AD to Warrior and various Marvel UK titles. In 1982, Parkhouse wrote a comic book adaptation of the Time Bandits film which was drawn by David Lloyd and John Stokes.
His work includes "Big Dave" in 2000 AD, The Bojeffries Saga with Alan Moore, Night Raven with David Lloyd and various strips in Doctor Who Magazine. He illustrated three Dr. Who episodes in 1982–83.
In 2004 he provided the art for Angel Fire, which was written by Chris Blythe. This was published by Shattered Frames, a company they established in the same year to produce British graphic novels. In the same year he also drew writer Joe Casey's miniseries Milkman Murders, published by Dark Horse Comics. Since 2011, he has been working with Peter Hogan on the Dark Horse comic Resident Alien.

Awards

1994: Nominated for "Best Graphic Album—Reprint" Eisner Award for The Complete Bojeffries Saga