Matt Timson is a

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who resides in

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Biography

Timson has done a lot of work (especially covers) for

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including ''

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'', '' The End Is Nigh'' and '' FutureQuake'', as well as working as a freelance illustrator. In recent years he has begun to get professional comics work, on '' Popgun'' with

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and John Reppion, and most recently on '' Impaler'', after the title moved from

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. Comics critic Timothy Callahan in a review of ''Impaler'' #3 said:

Bibliography

Comics

Interior comics work includes: * "The Ripper" (written by Arthur Wyatt, in '' FutureQuake'' #1, 2003) "The Ripper"
* "The Omnocular Man" (written by Paul Scott, in ''

'' #2, 2003 & #3, 2004) * "54 Jones" (written by Paul Scott, in ''Omnivistascope'' Model One, 2005 & Model Two, 2006) * "Labour 7" (in Twelve a - retelling of the 12 tasks of Herakles) * "The Last War" (written by

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, in '' The End Is Nigh'' #2, 2005) * "Death Squid" (written by Paul Scott, in ''Solar Wind'' #1, 2003 & #2, 2003) * '' Gutsville'' #2 (written by

Simon Spurrier Simon "Si" Spurrier (born 2 May 1981) is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC. Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write hi ...

, with art by

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, 2007) * "Deadeye" (written by

and John Reppion, in '' Popgun'' #1 and 2,

, 2007, 2008) * '' Impaler'' (with William Harms, 5-issue

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, December 2008 - March 2010, ongoing, tpb, 160 pages, August 2010, ) * "Zip" (with Andi Ewington and 44 other artists, in '' Forty-Five'',

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, Com.x, February 2010, ) * '' The Darkness'' #89 (with Joshua Hale Fialkov, Top Cow, January 2011)

Covers

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'' #1 *'' The End Is Nigh'' #1 (right) *'' FutureQuake'' #4 * ''Violent'' #8 * ''Omnivistascope Model One''

Awards

*2010: Nominated for "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award

Notes

References

External links

*
Matt Timson's blogThe making of Impaler
by Matt Timson, Comic Monsters.com
FULL ISSUE - Top Cow's 'Impaler #1'

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, March 11, 2009
''Impaler'' #1-3 review

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