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Simon-Williams-Art [249861] [2002-06-22 23:20:37 +0000 UTC] "Retrotastic Idol Of Millions!" (United Kingdom)

# Statistics

Favourites: 5186; Deviations: 341; Watchers: 1285

Watching: 247; Pageviews: 172722; Comments Made: 2182; Friends: 247

# Interests

Favorite visual artist: Sal Buscema, John Buscema, Jack Kirby, Dale Keown, Geoff Senior
Favorite movies: The Blues Brothers, Transformers the Movie, anything with Bruce Lee
Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who
Favorite bands / musical artists: The Blues Brothers, Elvis, Jon Mikl Thor... too many to mention!
Favorite writers: Stan Lee, Peter David, Simon Furman, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont
Favorite games: WWE2K series
Favorite gaming platform: PS3, Xbox 360
Tools of the Trade: Manga Studio 4 Ex, Pro-Create, Pencil, eraser, ruler and my ever lovin' good looks ;)
Other Interests: Surfing the 'net to the theme music of 'Hawaii 5-O'

# About me

I am a UK based professional comic artist who has worked on several Panini/Marvel UK titles, starting off by drawing TRANSFORMERS and then moving on to draw THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, DEATH'S HEAD and MARVEL HEROES... thus achieving a life long dream of drawing my favourite Marvel Comics heroes. My work has also featured in various American publications, including TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS and MARS ATTACKS JUDGE DREDD from IDW, and Erik Larsen's SAVAGE DRAGON (issue 193, published by Image Comics).

I have also produced artwork for various other forms of media, such as dvds, toys and collectable merchandise. These include the UK releases of the original TRANSFORMERS cartoon from Metrodome, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1966, 1982 and 1996 shows), the 90's X-MEN series and SPIDER-MAN (both the 1967 and 90's shows) from Clear-Vision. Recently, a HeroClix of the Marvel Comics character DEATH'S HEAD was released, and the figure was based upon artwork by myself (inked by David Roach and coloured by Jason Cardy) which was published in Panini Comic's DEATH'S HEAD vol.2 collection.

I am also the creator of BAD BLOOD: A VAMPIRE PROPHECY ™, and the DISCOTRONIC FUNK COMMANDOS™, a group of superheroes from the 1970s, who will be the stars of the upcoming RETRO TALES ™ title from my own RETRO COMICS GROUP ™ imprint. The comic will also feature special guest-star appearances from David Hasselhoff and Jon Mikl Thor! I have collaborated with both in developing and co-creating David Hasselhoff's comic book and cartoon project, The Hoff: Heroes Of Fearless Freedom, and also producing album artwork for Thor's Aristocrat of Victory and Thunderstryke 2 albums.

Hailing from: Parts Unknown... Wales, UK
Weighing in at: 205 lbs of rugged twisted steel and sex appeal!
Height: 5'11"
Favourite genre of music: Blues, Soul, Rock.... bit of everything really
Favourite style of art: Comic Art.... especially the classic style Marvel art from the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Operating System: Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: Samsung Galaxy S3
Favourite cartoon character: The Incredible Hulk, Optimus Prime, Death's Head, the Thing, Wolverine, Spider-man, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Doomlord
Inspirations/heroes: Bruce Lee, Lou Ferrigno, Mark (the Undertaker) Calaway, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and most of all my mum and dad.
Personal Quote: 'Keeping 'old-school' comic art alive and well!'

# Comments

Comments: 658

DylanCArt [2023-05-19 15:12:28 +0000 UTC]

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ReadyArt [2022-08-16 20:23:15 +0000 UTC]

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furtiveartist [2022-06-07 01:50:37 +0000 UTC]

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PachVSus [2022-02-20 18:47:24 +0000 UTC]

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Crossz-Grimlock [2021-02-10 02:35:33 +0000 UTC]

Love the transformers artwork

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Hand-Sam-Art [2020-07-16 13:20:56 +0000 UTC]

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DanielJHowe [2018-07-02 10:17:15 +0000 UTC]

Did I do good? :D (Big Grin)

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FionaRen2014 [2017-09-15 07:30:15 +0000 UTC]

hello Simon, I am Fiona from China. I see your works on deviant art and we are very interested in cooperating with you. Canyou give me a reply when you see this note？ Thank you!

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roryherman [2017-06-28 20:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Really nice gallery, i see a lot of John and Sal Buscema inspired stuff, excellent!

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SaltyGillis [2017-06-01 01:42:58 +0000 UTC]

How does one go about purchasing back issues of Retro Tales? They look amazing. I must have them.

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TheDeviantMakepeace [2017-01-30 05:57:34 +0000 UTC]

Belated Happy New Year Simon! (sorry, I'm not on dA much :\ )

See you back on FB when the time's right!

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to TheDeviantMakepeace [2017-04-12 00:18:25 +0000 UTC]

Hello my friend! Apologies for the late reply... hoping all is good with you! :) (Smile)

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TheDeviantMakepeace In reply to Simon-Williams-Art [2017-04-12 01:52:35 +0000 UTC]

FB is certainly soulless without you but I'm glad to hear you're Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!ing on !

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to TheDeviantMakepeace [2017-04-14 22:53:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Kevin. Truthfully, I don't think I will be returning to FB. I've felt so much better since leaving... I'll do my best to bring some extra Woooooooo to DeviantArt!

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TheDeviantMakepeace In reply to Simon-Williams-Art [2017-04-15 16:58:57 +0000 UTC]

pfff - that SoulManiac shall Wooooooooooooooooooo! where he shall Wooooooooooooooooooooo! It's up to us to follow such a ... Woooooooooooooooooo!er?

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Hand-Sam-Art [2017-01-29 22:16:18 +0000 UTC]

Hey Simon ... I just got the first 3 seasons of 90s "Spider-man: the Animated Series" on UK DVD!!
So now I have some of your art in my possession!

(wanted to post a picture, but it was taking too long to post)

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to Hand-Sam-Art [2017-04-12 00:17:44 +0000 UTC]

Hey Sam... sorry for the late reply. I'm hardly online these days! Glad you like the Spidey DVDs. I was really proud to work on those. :) (Smile)

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Hand-Sam-Art In reply to Simon-Williams-Art [2017-04-12 00:22:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the reply :) (Smile)
Look forward to watching them (it's S4 that's hard to find, then I'll get #5)

Hope we get to message soon ...

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glazios [2016-10-31 18:03:39 +0000 UTC]

Cheers for the , Simon!

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GhostLord89 [2016-07-16 03:35:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for faving my action figure photo. I really appreciate it.

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Hand-Sam-Art [2016-03-28 23:52:12 +0000 UTC]

Nice to see you're still here on DeviantArt, shame you're not on Facebook anymore.

But I'm glad I can still see your art!

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barneyjones123 [2016-03-06 00:55:25 +0000 UTC]

your covers nice,I hope marvel hire you so that you can make variant covers for every series.

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JimSandersIII [2016-03-01 23:03:58 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the faves!

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SolarGirlMina [2016-02-04 20:09:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the FAVE!
I LOVE your Death's Head works!! Love Love Love Love Love Love Love

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to SolarGirlMina [2016-02-05 01:35:38 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, Mina! Your Death's Head picture is awesome... he's such a ladies man, yes? :D (Big Grin)

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SolarGirlMina In reply to Simon-Williams-Art [2016-02-05 06:09:27 +0000 UTC]

Yes he is!

Thank you for +WATCH, too! Now I'm learning how to draw characters in comic style. I hope I can draw great pictures like yours someday... :) (Smile)

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Grandis-Granva [2015-11-18 02:08:22 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful work.

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MikeMcelwee [2015-10-27 08:50:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave, Simon! Love your work!

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susandunamissforeman [2015-09-09 22:07:23 +0000 UTC]

LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE DOING THE REST OF THE ARTWORK FOR THE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART NOVELS PLEASE... sbackdankstar69@yahoo.com

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swyattart [2015-09-06 13:05:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave Bro!

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539Designs [2015-08-20 12:07:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for watching. :) (Smile)

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swyattart [2015-08-13 17:27:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave and the comments Bro!

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swyattart [2015-08-09 14:24:35 +0000 UTC]

Hi Bro, thanks for faving my recent stuff! Always appreciated!

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swyattart [2015-06-21 01:03:01 +0000 UTC]

Cheers for the faves Bro!

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Mylittledinosaurus [2015-06-18 19:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Your artwork is outstanding! Cheers for the link! (Met you in game today)

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to Mylittledinosaurus [2015-06-19 11:27:20 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! It was nice to chat to you yesterday! Thanks for the kind words regarding my work as well :) (Smile)

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swyattart [2015-06-18 00:51:20 +0000 UTC]

Cheers for the faves Bro!

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to swyattart [2015-06-19 11:27:39 +0000 UTC]

Anytime, Welsh King of Comics! ;) (Wink)

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Falkunar [2015-06-10 07:52:39 +0000 UTC]

Greetings from Russia. I admired your creativity since 2005. In that time we went out the magazine "Play and learn with Spider-Man," where have you been one of the artists. I like your old school style! Detailing and shadows are amazing! I'm glad I found you, and I want to thank you for part of my childhood. Apologies for machine translation.

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to Falkunar [2015-06-12 21:13:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for the kind words, my friend! :) (Smile)

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11kaito11 [2015-05-27 12:26:11 +0000 UTC]

Hey Simon,
thanks a lot for favouriting my AMAZING SPIDER-MAN issue 50 cover :D (Big Grin)

Hope you have a nice day my friend ;) (Wink)
Many greetings from Germany!

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Simon-Williams-Art In reply to 11kaito11 [2015-06-19 11:28:14 +0000 UTC]

You are most welcome! You have a great day as well :) (Smile)

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ChrisTrenteSix [2015-04-17 16:52:49 +0000 UTC]