EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 15 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

9 Dave began working professionally in the field of comics, and it was there that he met future writer Neil Gaiman (with whom he would eventually collaborate on many different projects). “Neil was working as a jobbing journalist, I was still in my final year of art school,” Dave says. “I’d published four issues of a comics anthology magazine called Meanwhile… with a couple of my fellow students. We sold copies at Westminster Comic Marts in London, and an art director at Titan Books called Leigh Baulch found them, and contacted me about a new anthology that was being set up in London called Borderline . Neil was one of the other contributors, as was Mark Buckingham, D’Israeli, several people who went on to work professionally in comics. The magazine never happened, but we had several editorial meetings and showed our work around. Neil liked my stuff, and Text continues on page 14 ABOVE: From 'The Wolves in the Walls' (2002). “Probably my favourite of my picture books with Neil Gaiman.” Acrylic, photography, digital. BELOW: Endpaper illustration from the Subterranean Press edition of 'Coraline' (2007). Ink. Harper Collins