Nick Percival


Nick Percival is a multi award-winning British graphic artist and graphic novelist primarily known for his published comic book, concept artwork and career in computer animation directing.

Biography

Percival's first published work was in the monthly British comic Judge Dredd Megazine with a horror 'strange cases' tale written by Dave Stone. After several similar stories in the Megazine, he then went on to paint a nine-part story set in Judge Dredd's world in the Cursed Earth with the series Sleeze 'n' Ryder, where Nick worked with acclaimed writer Garth Ennis.
The pair would later work together again for the British weekly comic 2000 AD on the Judge Dredd epic "Goodnight Kiss", another tale set in the radioactive wasteland of the Cursed Earth, where Judge Dredd is hunted by the assassin Jonni Kiss and the mutant Brotherhood of Marshalls.
Percival also painted the Sláine story "King of Hearts" for 2000 AD, where he worked with the co-creator of 2000 AD, Pat Mills.
Aside from his 2000 AD work on various stories and painted covers, including the Dredd story, "Crime Prevention" with acclaimed comic book author Mark Millar, Percival has also produced work for Marvel Comics, MTV, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck Entertainment, Boom! Studios, IDW Publishing, Electronic Arts, Sony, Warner Bros., Activision, Atari, Sci Fi Channel, History Channel, Microsoft, and Fantasy Flight Games.
He also became prolific in the video game and animation industries where he ran an animation studio in the UK. He directed computer generated cut-scenes for video game such as Men in Black II: Alien Escape, Z: Steel Soldiers, Carmageddon TDR 2000, and the Games Workshop licensed video game of Gorkamorka. His company also developed their own computer generated short films and Percival presented one of these successfully at the Cartoon Movie Festival 2002 in Berlin.
Percival is the author and illustrator of Legends: The Enchanted, an original graphic novel, to be adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. Legends: The Enchanted won the HorrorNews Net award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2010. and was nominated for an Eagle Award for Favourite Single Story 2010.
In 2015, Percival won the 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Cover Art for his painted Nightbreed cover for Fangoria magazine.
Percival's poster artwork for the independent horror film Female Werewolf won the Fantastic Cinema Excellence in Poster Design Award 2016.
In 2017, he won the Horror News Network's Comic Award for Best Cover Artwork of 2017 for the comic book Hook Jaw.
More recently, Percival has been painting the continuing saga of Judge Dredd's most famous nemesis, Judge Death and the Dark Judges, with the Dark Justice: Dominion and The Torture Garden series.
Percival has since completed four series in the Dark Judges saga for 2000AD and continues to illustrate Judge Dredd, focusing on the horror side of Dredd's world.
In 2024, he won the 'Favourite Judge Dredd Cover' of the year in the official 2000AD Reader's Poll.

Comics

Interior comics artwork includes:
  • Strange Cases:
  • * "Monsters"
  • * "The Great Outdoors"
  • * "Where the Heart is!"
  • Sleeze 'n' Ryder
  • Brit-Cit Brute :
  • * "Brit-Cit Brute"
  • * "Trilogy"
  • The Clown Book 2
  • Judge Dredd:
  • * "Judge Dredd: Crime Prevention"
  • * "Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss"
  • * "Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files" Volume 20
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files" Volume 23
  • * "Judge Dredd: Trauma Town"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection" #7, 22, 68
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Gyre"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Harvest"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The House On Bleaker Street"
  • * "Judge Dredd: Return To Billy Carter"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge"
  • * "Judge Dredd: Iron Teeth"
  • * "Judge Dredd: Memory Lane"
  • * "Judge Dredd: The Shift"
  • * "Judge Dredd: Messengers"
  • Vector 13: "Case Five: Shadrach"
  • Marvel:Portraits of a Universe #1:
  • Sláine: "King of Hearts"
  • Slaine: "Demon Killer"
  • Slaine: "The Grail War"
  • Slaine: "2000AD The Ultimate Collection" Slaine Volume 5, trade hardback, 2019
  • Dead of Night: Featuring Man-Thing
  • Legends: The Enchanted
  • Legends: The Enchanted #0
  • Mean Machine Angel: Tales from the Black Museum
  • Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #1: The Labyrinth
  • Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #2: Action Replay
  • Hellraiser: Anthology Volume 1, 2
  • Dark Judges: Dominion
  • Dark Judges: The Torture Garden
  • Dark Judges: Deliverance
  • Dark Judges: Death Metal Planet
  • Dark Justice: Dominion
  • Dark Justice: The Torture Garden
  • Dark Justice: Dominion: "2000AD The Ultimate Collection" Volume 94, trade hardback, 2021)
  • Dark Judges: Deliverance & Death Metal Planet "2000AD The Ultimate Collection" Volume 177, trade hardback, 2024)
  • 2000 Ad Vs Battle Action: Comics Collide!
  • Fiends Of The Eastern Front: Bred In The Bone
  • ''Fiends Of The Western Front: Red Tide''

    Covers

Cover artwork includes:
  • 2000AD #872, 881, 948, 962, 1410, 1472, 1494, 1507, 1545, 1568, 1582, 1601, 1647, 1708, 1723, 1756, 1806, 1827, 1883, 1887, 1901, 1923, 2068, 2158, 2160, 2247, 2382, 2384, 2387, 2418, 2421, 2424, 2460, 2462
  • Classic 2000AD #2
  • Complete Judge Dredd #34, 36
  • Overkill #41, 49
  • Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe
  • Untamed
  • Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar #2
  • Marshal Law: Origins
  • City of Dust #5
  • Clown Tales #1-2
  • Hack/Slash #26
  • Stronghold
  • Legends: The Enchanted
  • Chiaroscuro Collected edition. Judge Dredd Megazine #303
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1-20
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol.2 Trade Paperback
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Dark Watch Vol.3 Trade Paperback
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser Annual #1
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Road Below #1-4
  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: The Dark Watch #1, 2, 3
  • Fangoria #303, 304, 330, 338
  • H.P. Lovecraft's: The Dunwich Horror #1-4
  • Mars Attacks #9
  • The X-Files #4
  • Slaine pin-up artwork, 2000AD #1848
  • Judge Dredd Megazine #358, 368, 370, 386, 389, 401, 405, 409, 425, 427, 430, 433, 448, 449, 453, 456, 458, 474
  • Judge Dredd #2, 3, 4
  • Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #1
  • Judge Dredd Vol 2 #5
  • Judge Dredd: Blessed Earth #7
  • Anderson: Psi Division #3
  • John Carpenter's Asylum #9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
  • The New York Ripper Original Soundtrack Album cover
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night Original Soundtrack Album cover
  • Christmas Evil Original Soundtrack Album cover
  • The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael #2
  • Society Blu-ray box art
  • Aliens vs Zombies #1
  • Lobster Random Collected edition. Judge Dredd Megazine #363
  • Inferno #1
  • Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame #1, 2, 4
  • Dark Souls: Winter's Spite #1, 2
  • Dark Souls: Tales of Ember #1, 2
  • Dark Souls: Omnibus
  • Dark Souls: Box Set Edition
  • Assassin's Creed #13,
  • Dead Signal Collected edition. Judge Dredd Megazine #383
  • Warhammer 40,000 #1, 2, 3, 4, 7
  • Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch the Lost Sons #2, 3
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III #3, 4
  • The Chimera Brigade #1, 4, 6
  • ROM #5
  • World War X #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • The Guyver Blu-ray box art
  • Torchwood #2.1
  • Masked: Anomalies #2
  • Samurai: Brothers in arms #4, 5
  • KHAAL #1, 2, 3, 4
  • Forever War #1, 3, 4, 6
  • Rivers of London #5
  • Hook Jaw #3, 5
  • The Mummy #4
  • Highlander #5
  • Penny Dreadful Vol 2 #2, 6
  • Little Nightmares #1
  • Tekken #1
  • John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: The Vault #1
  • John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: Vortex #1
  • Penny Dreadful Vol 2: The Beauteous Evil
  • Bloodborne #1
  • Imaginary Forces #1
  • The 77 Comic #1
  • Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
  • Conan the Barbarian #4, 32
  • Edge Of Extinction #6
  • Arkham Mysteries Vol 2
  • The Savage Sword of Conan #16

    Other

Other illustration work includes:
  • B12 - Electro Soma CD cover and interior artwork
  • Fallout 2 Official promotional artwork
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Races of Eberron:
  • The Art of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos:
  • Scrye Magazine #102-105:
  • Fantasy Art Magazine
  • 2D Artist Magazine
  • Shakara: The Avenger
  • Magic: The Gathering:
  • Magic: The Gathering: Commander Anthology, 2017
  • Magic: The Gathering: Iconic Masters, 2017
  • World of Warcraft:
  • Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game:
  • Anachronism:
  • Nikolai Dante - Hero of the Revolution
  • The Zombook
  • The Art of BOOM! Studios:
  • Comic Heroes Magazine Vol 1 #18: Feature artwork
  • Indigo Prime - Anthropocalypse
  • The Book of Scars - 30 Years of Slaine
  • 2000AD Winter Special 2014 2000AD Zombies pin-up artwork
  • Queen of Blood
  • Female Werewolf
  • Girl With A Straight Razor
  • Defoe: 1666
  • The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael
  • FANGORIA: Cover to Cover
  • Voices of the Damned Interior artwork
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 2
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 3
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 4
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 5
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 6
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 7
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 8
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 9
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 10
  • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night Volume 11
  • Kustom Art Magazine #8
  • Hellraiser: Blind Sadist
  • Hellraiser: The Watchers
  • Hellraiser: Nameless
  • Clive Barker: Hellraiser: Omnibus Vol 1
  • Clive Barker: Hellraiser: Omnibus Vol 2
  • Hellraiser: Anthology Vol 1
  • Hellraiser: Anthology Vol 2
  • Blood Dynasty
  • Hook Jaw: Volume 1
  • Dark Souls: The Covers Collection
  • Dark Souls: Omnibus
  • Dark Souls: The Complete Collection
  • Dark Souls: Box Set Edition
  • Penny Dreadful: The Comic Covers Collection
  • Delirium Magazine #25
  • 2000AD: Covers Uncovered 2021
  • The Wrong Man
  • Halftone Horrors: The History of Horror Movie Comic Books
  • A Christmas Carol: The Shift Illustrated Edition
  • ''Classic Monsters, Modern Art: 20th Century Horror in 21st Century''