Though originally training to be a lawyer, Mike Collins recently celebrated 40 years of working in comics. In that time, he’s drawn pretty much every major character in the US and UK: X-Men, Batman, JLA, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Judge Dredd, Slaine, and Rogue Trooper among them. Best known for drawing Doctor Who, since the show’s triumphant return twenty years back for Doctor Who Magazine, IDW, Titan, and two Dalek graphic novels for BBC Books, as well as writing and drawing Doctor Who online games for Tiny Rebel. He’s also the artist on the 1970s Marvel-style Doctor Who merchandise. He’s drawn two well-regarded and successful original Graphic Novels—an adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the docudrama about the first moon landing, Apollo. In TV he works as a storyboard artist on many genre shows: Doctor Who, Fool Me Once, His Dark Materials, Good Omens, The Witcher, Midwich Cuckoos, and Lazarus Project, among others. In recent times he’s worked on several How To Draw books and part-works: a 100-issue run on How To Draw Marvel magazine; 3 volumes of How To Draw Fortnite; How To Draw Five Nights at Freddie’s; he currently illustrates the D&D Adventurer partwork magazine. He’s married to Bernadette Vella, an IT manager at several major international financial institutions for the last few decades, who was very excited about this book happening as she’d long used it in her work strategies. Between them, they have three daughters: Bethan, Becky, and Rhiannon; and three sons: Robert, Andrew, and Daniel, and three grandchildren: Ari, Annie, and Sonny. Mike lives in Cardiff, Wales.