Simon Gane

Simon Gane is a British artist from Bath known for his work in the comic book field.

Gane grew up influenced by the comics of Hergé and Jacques Tardi.^[1] He attended art school in the U.K.^[1] Later comics influences included Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar, as well as the minicomics of Tom Hart, David Lasky, and Adrian Tomine.^[1]

Gane's work was first published in his "self-produced punk fanzine, Arnie, and various minicomics before being collected in Punk Strips"^[2] (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000).

His first work published in the United States came in 2004 with Eureka Productions in Graphic Classics #9: Robert Louis Stevenson, and the kids' Godzilla comic, All Flee! (Top Shelf Productions). After illustrating the five-issue comic Paris, written by fellow Englishman Andi Watson and published by Slave Labor Graphics, Gane found a home with Vertigo Comics, first with The Vinyl Underground and then Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story and Northlanders. Gane described The Vinyl Underground as being "set in London and featur[ing] an ad-hoc group of self-appointed detectives who become embroiled in occult-tinged crimes with a strong supporting cast of mobsters and so on."^[3]

Gane is the official illustrator for the Burning Sky Brewery in East Sussex.^{[citation needed]}