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Ben Oliver
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Artist
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Ben Oliver is a British comics artist who has worked for 2000 AD on Judge Dredd as well as providing art for The Authority, The Losers, and Ultimate X-Men

Biography

Ben Oliver lives in Bristol, his first professional work in England came out in 2000. He started work on Judge Dredd and then illustrated the Com.x limited series Puncture written by Russell Uttley.^[1]

His first professional work in America came out in 2003 when he got work at DC Comics imprints, like Wildstorm, Vertigo and America's Best Comics. He then moved to Marvel Comics where he worked on Ultimate X-Men, a couple of Thunderbolts one-shots with Christos Gage^[2] and a Wolverine one-shot written by Simon Spurrier.^[3]

Recent projects include returning to 2000 AD to finish of the second Ten Seconders story and to illustrate another Judge Dredd story by Al Ewing. He also returned to Wildstorm to work on "A Narrow Pass!" written by Uttley, a back-up feature running through the core Wildstorm Universe titles involved with the World's End storyline.

Ben has also done magazine covers, video game covers, Ben started to get in to comics around 1989 when the Batman films first started coming out.

Following the Ultimate Marvel event Ultimatum, Ben will be penciling the Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem one shot,^[4] followed by the Dark Reign The List: Hulk one shot.^[4]

Bibliography

• Judge Dredd:
  • "You're a Better Man Than I Am, Gunga Dinsdale" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1210, 2000)
  • "Bring Me the Heart of P. J. Maybe" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1211, 2000)
  • "Dead Ringer" (with John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Megazine, vol. 3 #68, 2000)
  • "Cockroaches" (with Al Ewing, in 2000 AD #1627, 2009)

• Puncture (with Russell Uttley, 6-limited series, Com.x, 2001-2002)

• The Authority: Human on the Inside (with John Ridley, Wildstorm, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0069-9)
• The Losers #20-22 (pencils (20-21) and art (22), with Andy Diggle and inks by Lee Loughridge (20-21), collected in Close Quarters, collects #20-25, 144 pages, 2006 ISBN 1-4012-0719-7)
• Tom Strong #33: "The Journey Within" (with Joe Casey, 2005, collected in Tom Strong Book 6, hardcover, December 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1108-9)

• Ultimate X-Men (with Robert Kirkman, Marvel Comics):
  • "Phoenix?" (in Ultimate X-Men #69-71, 2006, collected in Ultimate X-Men Volume 14: Phoenix?, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2019-X)
  • "Cable" (in Ultimate X-Men #75-78, 2006-2007, collected in Ultimate X-Men Volume 16: Cable, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2548-5)
  • "Cliffhanger" (in Ultimate X-Men #81, 2007, collected in Ultimate X-Men Volume 17: Sentinels, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2549-3)

• Thunderbolts (with Christos Gage, Marvel Comics, collected in Thunderbolts: Secret Invasion, 168 pages, March 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2394-6):
  • "International Incident" (one-shot, February 2008)
  • "Thunderbolts: Reason in Madness" (one-shot, May 2008)

• The Ten-Seconders: "Make. Believe." (with Rob Williams, 2000 AD #1584-1588, 2008)

• "Wolverine: Dangerous Game" (with Simon Spurrier, one-shot, Marvel Comics, June 2008}

• Young X-Men #6-7 (with Marc Guggenheim, Marvel Comics, 2008)

• "A Narrow Pass!" (with Russell Uttley, Wildstorm, April 2009-ongoing):
  • Wildcats #8
  • Gen¹³ #28
  • Stormwatch: P.H.D. #20
  • The Authority #8

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