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Simon Fraser is a British comics artist and writer best known for his work on ''
Nikolai Dante ''Nikolai Dante'' is a comic book series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology '' 2000 AD'' from March 1997 until July 2012. History ''Nikolai Dante'' was created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser. The lea ...
'', a series he created with writer
Robbie Morrison Robbie Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer known for his work in the weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'', where he co-created the long-running serial '' Nikolai Dante'' with artist Simon Fraser. Career Morrison began his career in '' 2000 ADs ...
in '' 2000 AD'', '' Tales of the Night Watchman'' for So What? Press, and '' Kingsman: The Red Diamond'' for
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.


Career

Fraser's early work includes ''Lux and Alby Sign on and Save the Universe'', a 1993–1994 collaboration with novelist
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co-published by Acme Press and
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. Despite having little interest in
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, he worked on ''
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'', including drawing the character's final appearance in 1995. This led to David Bishop's commissioning him to work on '' Shimura'' in the ''
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'', where he first collaborated with
Robbie Morrison Robbie Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer known for his work in the weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'', where he co-created the long-running serial '' Nikolai Dante'' with artist Simon Fraser. Career Morrison began his career in '' 2000 ADs ...
. The pair then created ''
Nikolai Dante ''Nikolai Dante'' is a comic book series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology '' 2000 AD'' from March 1997 until July 2012. History ''Nikolai Dante'' was created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser. The lea ...
'', a swashbuckling adventure story set amid dynastic intrigue in a future
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, 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, although Fraser returned to the character in 2006 for the storyline "Sword of the Tsar". Also for ''2000 AD'', Fraser has drawn a number of ''
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'' stories. Returning to the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' in 2003, he collaborated with writer Rob Williams on ''Family'', a black and white series about a
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with superhuman powers, which has recently been published as a collected edition. In 2005 he drew a four-part adaptation of
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's '' Hell House'', scripted by
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and published by
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. Fraser produced art on ''The Adventures of Nikolai Dante'' for '' 2000 AD'', and the self-penned ''Lilly MacKenzie and the Mines of Charybdis'' which was published online, a page per week (every Friday) as part of the online comics collective Act-i-vate.Simon Frazer: Moving to the Web
,
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, February 12, 2007 In 2015, he started drawing covers for the horror comic, '' Tales of the Night Watchman'', published by So What? Press. From 2017 to 2018, he was the primary illustrator for the ''Kingsman'' comic book sequel '' The Red Diamond'' for
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, written by Rob Williams. In 2018, he drew the sequential art for "The Ghost Train", about the elevated train involved in the infamous Malbone Street Wreck returning to terrorize the city on the centenary of the accident, which kicked off ''Tales of the Night Watchman's'' run as a newspaper strip in
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, New York's ''Park Slope Reader.'' The story debuted in the paper's Spring 2018 edition, number 64. The strips were colored by Gary Caldwell, Simon Fraser's frequent collaborator.


Accolades

In 2018, Fraser received a Ringo Award nomination for best cover artist for his work on ''Tales of the Night Watchman'', ''Kingsman'', and ''The Consultant.''


Bibliography

*''Lux and Alby Sign On and Save the Universe'' *''
Roy of the Rovers ''Roy of the Rovers'' is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional association football, footballer and later Manager (association football), manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. The strip first appeared ...
'' *'' Shimura'' (with
Robbie Morrison Robbie Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer known for his work in the weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'', where he co-created the long-running serial '' Nikolai Dante'' with artist Simon Fraser. Career Morrison began his career in '' 2000 ADs ...
): ** "The Transcendental Assassin" (in ''
Judge Dredd Megazine ''Judge Dredd: The Megazine'' is a monthly British comic magazine, launched in September 1990. It is a sister publication to '' 2000 AD''. Its name is a play on words, formed from "magazine" and Judge Dredd's locale Mega-City One. Content L ...
'' vol. 2 #74, 1995) ** "Assassins" (with Robert McCallum, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 2 #76-77, 1995) ** "Dragon Fire" (in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 3 #14-17, 1996) ** "Ronin Breed" (in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 3 #34, 1997) *''
Nikolai Dante ''Nikolai Dante'' is a comic book series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology '' 2000 AD'' from March 1997 until July 2012. History ''Nikolai Dante'' was created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser. The lea ...
'' (with Robbie Morrison): ** "Nikolai Dante" (in '' 2000 AD'' #1035-1041, 1997) ** "The Romanov Dynasty" (in ''2000 AD'' #1042-1049, 1997) ** "The Gentleman Thief" (in ''2000 AD'' #1067-1070, 1997) ** "Moscow Duellists" (in ''2000 AD'' #1072-1075, 1997) ** "The Trouble with Arbatovs" (in ''2000 AD'' #1083, 1998) ** "Cruel Britannia" (in ''2000 AD'' #1084, 1998) ** "The Great Game" (in ''2000 AD'' #1101-1110, 1998) ** "The Moveable Feast" (in ''2000 AD'' #1128-1130, 1999) ** "The Cadre Infernale" (in ''2000 AD'' #1134-1137, 1999) ** "The Courtship of Jena Makarov " (in ''2000 AD'' #1161-1172, 1999) ** "Love and War" (in ''2000 AD'' Prog 2000, 1999) ** "Battleship Potemkin" (in ''2000 AD'' #1213-1220, 2000) ** "The Return of the Gentleman Thief" (in ''2000 AD'' Prog 2002 & #1273-1274, 2001–2002) ** "The Romanov Job" (in ''2000 AD'' #1280-1287, 2002) ** "Sword of the Tsar" (in ''2000 AD'' #1511-1517, 2006) ** "Hellfire" (in ''2000 AD'' #1526-1532, 2007) ::(This list is incomplete; you can help by adding to it) *''
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'': ** "Blood Cadets" (with John Wagner, in ''2000 AD'' #1186-1188, 2000) ** "Something Over My Shoulder is Drooling " (with Robbie Morrison, in ''2000 AD'' #1226, 2001) ** "Zoom Time" (with John Wagner, in ''2000 AD'' #1311, 2002) ** "Club Sov" (with
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, in ''2000 AD'' #1358, 2003) ** "Jumped" (with John Smith, in ''2000 AD'' #1491-1494, 2006) ** "In Control" (with art by Michael Carroll, in ''2000 AD'' #1717, January 2011) * ''
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'' (with Rob Williams, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #201-207, 2003) * '' Richard Matheson's Hell House'' (with
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, 4-issue mini-series,
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, 2004–2005, tpb, 200 pages, October 2008, ) * ''Lily MacKenzie and the Mines of Charybdis'' (script and art), in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #298–305, 2010 * '' Kingsman: The Red Diamond'' (with Rob Williams, 6-issue mini-series,
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, 2017–2018, tbp, 144 pages, April 2018,


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References

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Interviews


2002 interview with 2000ADReview

2005 interview with The Nexus

Meet the Scot who brings the biggest comic book heroes to life
'' The Daily Record'', July 25, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fraser, Simon British comics artists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottish comics artists