Rufus Dayglo is a London-based comics artist

Comics artist

A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...

 working for 2000 AD

2000 AD (comic)

2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...

and Titan Books

Titan Books

Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...

 in the United Kingdom, and IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

 and Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

 in the United States. His Tank Girl

Tank Girl

Tank Girl is a British comic created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. Originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, it has also been drawn by Rufus Dayglo, Ashley Wood, and Mike McMahon.The eponymous character Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home...

 work has also been published by Ankama Editions in France in 2011.

Biography

Dayglo started his career in the animation industry working on feature films, pop promos, storyboarding and commercials before moving into comic book art. He has taken over as the main regular artist on the Tank Girl

Tank Girl

Tank Girl is a British comic created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. Originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, it has also been drawn by Rufus Dayglo, Ashley Wood, and Mike McMahon.The eponymous character Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home...

series of comics.

He has drawn Snaked, a mini series with writer Clifford Meth

Clifford Meth

Clifford Lawrence Meth is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."-Early life:...

 for IDW, Tank Girl: The Gifting (drawing issues 2-4), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Low Life with Rob Williams for 2000 AD.

Dayglo has drawn 6 complete series of Tank Girl with co-creator Alan Martin

Alan Martin (writer)

Alan Martin is a British comics writer best known as author of the comic strip Tank Girl.- Hewlett and Martin :Martin and Hewlett first met in the mid-1980s in Worthing, when Martin was in a band with Philip Bond called the University Smalls...

, for Titan Books

Titan Books

Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...

 ('Bad Wind Rising' mini series), Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

 (Image Tank Girl quarterly one shots), and IDW Comics ('The Royal Escape' mini series). The Tank Girl series Dayglo has drawn are Tank Girl: The Gifting, Tank Girl: Visions of Booga, Tank Girl: Skidmarks, Tank Girl: The Royal Escape, Tank Girl: We Hate Tank Girl, and Tank Girl: Bad Wind Rising.

Dayglo is now working on Solid Gold Death Mask, a creator owned project which will be launched free on the internet, and then collected as books.

Dayglo is also doing design work for Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood is an Australian comic book artist and illustrator who is well known for his cover art, concept design and his work as an art director....

's 3A toys.

External links

• His Blog
• Art Droids, Original art site run by Rufus
• http://rufusdayglo.tumblr.com/, his Tumblr account
• http://twitter.com/#!/TEAM_TANK_GIRL, his Twitter account

Interviews

• The Adventures of Tank Boy: An interview with Rufus Dayglo, Down The Tubes, July 27, 2009
• The Crikey! Interview: Rufus Dayglo, Crikey!