John Royle

John Royle has worked over three decades in the Comic industry, which began in 1992 with a one-off comic strip contribution to Fleetway’s Red Dwarf Smegazine . Rapidly he moved on to Marvel Uk and a run on Knights of Pendragon that took him into 1993 when he embarked on a variety of miniseries – Death’s Head II and the Origin of Die Cut and Death Metal among them – before The House of Ideas itself came calling.
Royle worked for Marvel USA until 1996, his most high profile projects being Wolverine: Evilution (a 1994 one-shot that he drew in collaboration with Mark Texeira), Rogue What if ? & Excalibur. Along the way he found time to illustrate a couple of Rai fill-ins for Valiant, Robin-Impluse for D.C Comics as well as work on a number of Malibu’s Ultraverse titles, among them Ultraforce, Prime and The Phoenix Resurrection.
His next work was for Marvel, primarily on the 1997 issues of Star Trek: Star-fleet Academy, but he was only there for a year before outside demands for his talents forced him to retire from comics, although only semi-permanently.
After a six-year break he resurfaced at Panini (Marvel UK as was) for which he contributed to multiple issues of Spectacular Spider-Man over the next seven years while also working on 18 of the first 19 issues of 2004’s Marvel Rampage ​ and made significant contributions to Stan Lee’s ‘Alexa’ a 2005 iBooks one-shot. Then came IDW and three series of Danger Girl. John also regularly provided covers for IDW’s G.I.JOE Real American hero. Currently, he has transitioned from interior artist to cover artist for numerous titles published by Zenescope, Dynamite- Elvira, Red Sonja, Vampirella, plus other publishers and Kickstarter variant covers.