Skizz, written by Alan Moore

Colin MacNeil

Colin MacNeil's masterly painted art has graced many 2000 AD strips, including his co-created Mechanismo, Ulysses Sweet and Vanguard, as well as the classic, adult-oriented America.

He has also illustrated Calhab Justice, Chopper, The Corps, Devlin Waugh, Heavy Metal Dredd, Judge Dredd, Maelstrom, Mega-Ciry Mania, Missionary Man, Satanus, Shimura, Strontium Dog, Tales of the Doghouse, Tales of Mega-City One and Tharg's Future Shocks.

Paul Marshall

Creator: The Corps, Firekind

Artist: Judge Dredd, Mean Machine, Sinister Dexter, Tharg's Future Shocks, Tyranny Rex, Vector 13

Paul Marshall co-created The Corps and Firekind, and has also pencilled Judge Dredd, Mean Machine, Sinister Dexter, Tharg's Future Shocks, Tyranny Rex and Vector 13. His other work can be seen in Harris Comics' Avalon.

Robert McCallum

Robert McCallum is the writer of Mega-City Mania, but is perhaps better known as the artist of strips including Judge Dredd, Maniac 5, Mean Machine, Shimura, Sinister Dexter and Vector 13.

Brendan McCarthy

Brendan McCarthy was a key early artist for 2000 AD, and co-created Zenith with Grant Morrison, and the perennially popular ABC Warriors with Pat Mills (and others). He also illustrated Judge Dredd, Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales, Sooner or Later, Strontium Dog, Tharg's Future Shocks and Walter the Wobot, and contributed to Heavy Metal Dredd in Judge Dredd: The Megazine.

McCarthy's non-2000 AD work includes A1, Crisis, Strange Days, Paradax!, Vanguard Illustrated and work for Revolver, where he co-created the popular character Rogan Gosh. Most recently, McCarthy has been working on concept and production material for the forthcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth sequel in the popular movie series.

Jim McCarthy

Jim McCarthy is the co-creator of Bix Barton, The Grudgefather, and Kid Cyborg for 2000 AD, but is perhaps best known for his work inking the classic Bad Company. Additionally, he has provided art for Rogue Trooper, Tharg's Future Shocks and Zenith.

His other work includes DC's Animal Man and Hellblazer.

Mike McMahon

Although Mike McMahon may not have illustrated as many strips as other 2000 AD creators, his importance to the comic cannot be overstated. It was McMahon who co-created perennial classics A.B.C. Warriors and The V.C.'s, and it was also McMahon who gave Judge Dredd his classic, defining, "big boots" look — and two major characters in Max Normal and Rico Dredd.

McMahon has also illustrated Ro-Busters, and provided a classic run on Sláine, where his dense, woodcut-styled art wows readers young and old. Outside of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, he has pencilled Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and The Last American, which he co-created with John Wagner.

Mark Millar

Mark Millar is one of 2000 AD's most prolific story creators, with co-creation credits for Babe Race 2000, Big Dave, Canon Fodder, The Grudge Father, Janus: Psi Division, Maniac 5, Purgatory, Red Razors, Silo and Slaughterbowl. Many of these were produced during the first "Summer Offensive", when Millar (and sometime writing partner Grant Morrison) took the reins!

Millar has also written Judge Dredd — both in 2000 AD and the Daily Star, as well as Judge Anderson, Robo-Hunter, Rogue Trooper, Tales from Beyond Science, Tharg's Future Shocks, Tharg's Terror Tales and Zenith.

Millar's popularity has expanded enormously in the past few years, and his career post-2000 AD is burgeoning — he has written The Authority, Aztek, Batman, The Flash, JLA, Saviour, Superman, Swamp Thing, The Ultimates, Trouble, Ultimate X-Men and Vampirella. His most recent project — four different comics with four different companies — has also been well-received.

David Millgate

David Millgate is the co-creator of future hitmen Sinister Dexter, and has also illustrated Brit-Cit Brute, Judge Dredd, Future Shocks, and Outlaw. He has recently returned to the Megazine to illustrate Mean Machine.

Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan is one of 2000 AD's most prolific story creators, and has now, of course, graduated to much wider comics fame. As well as co-creating Hewligan's Haircut with Jamie Hewlett, Milligan created the classic future war story Bad Company, in addition to creating Freaks, Shadows, Sooner or Later, The Dead andTribal Memories. He also contributed several short stories and Future Shocks, and has written Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper stories.

His work outside the Galaxy's Greatest Comic has received enormous critical and fan acclaim; notably Vertigo's existentialist superhero mystery Enigma, via The Eaters, Human Target, Girl, Tank Girl: The Odyssey, A1, Animal Man, Batman, Minx, Shade the Changing Man and Skreemer. His most recent works are Marvel's best-selling X-Statix, a vicious pop culture satire, and Vertigo Pop! London, a rock 'n' roll tale of the big city.

Angie Mills (née Kincaid)

Angie Mills co-created the enormously popular saga of Celtic Warrior Sláine with her then-husband, Pat Mills. She illustrated Sláine's first ever appearance — defining his character as a young, handsome hero — and later wrote an episode of the strip, The Killing Field.

Pat Mills

Pat Mills is the creator and first editor of 2000 AD. For the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, he is the writer and co-creator of ABC Warriors, Finn, Flesh, Nemesis the Warlock, Sláine, Mach 1, Harlem Heroes and Savage. He also developed Judge Dredd and wrote one of the early Dredd serials — 'The Cursed Earth'. He wrote Third World War for Crisis!, a politically-charged spin-off from 2000 AD, and Black Siddha for the Judge Dredd Megazine. He has recently completed 'Slaine - The Books of Invasion' for 2000 AD.

Outside 2000 AD.he is the writer and co-creator of the long-running classic anti-war story Charley's War, as well as Marshal Law. He has also written Batman, Star Wars and Zombie World series for the US market. Currently Mills is writing the best-selling series Requiem — Vampire Knight for Editions Nickel of France with artist Olivier Ledroit, and a spin-off series, Claudia — Vampire Knight, with artist Frank Tacito. Two further French series are in production.

Alan Moore

Perhaps the most widely respected comic writer of the modern era, Alan Moore's contribution to the comics world is incalculable. Creator of some of 2000 AD's most popular series, including Abelard Snazz, The Ballad of Halo Jones, D.R. & Quinch and Skizz, he has also worked on A.B.C. Warriors, Ro-Busters, Rogue Trooper, Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales, Tharg the Mighty, Time Twisters and several one-off strips.

Outside of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, Moore is best known for his work on the classic Watchmen, which redefined the superhero genre in 1986, but this is simply touching the surface of a career which has included 1963, A1's Warpsmiths, Bojeffries Saga and Maxwell the Magic Cat, AARGH!, Batman, Big Numbers, Brought to Light, Captain Britain, Deathblow, Flesh and Bones, From Hell, Glory, Green Lantern Corps, Lost Girls, Miracleman, A Small Killing, Snakes and Ladders, Spawn, Supreme, Swamp Thing, Superman , V For Vendetta, WildC.A.T.S. and Youngblood.

Moore is now owner and chief writer of the America's Best Comics line, distributed by WildStorm, and including Promethea, Tom Strong, Tomorrow Stories, Top Ten and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which has recently been made into a major Hollywood movie.

Robbie Morrison

Robbie Morrison is one of 2000 AD's most popular writers, having co-created Blackheart, The Bendatti Vendetta, Shakara, Shimura and Vanguard, and chronicled the adventures of Judge Dredd in 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine and a UK national newspaper.

He is also co-creator of fan-favourite Russian rogue Nikolai Dante, which recently won an Eagle award for 'Best UK Character' - beating Judge Dredd to this accolade for the first time in almost twenty years.

In the US, he has written Spider-Man's Tangled Web for Marvel, and recently completed work on a new series of DC/WildStorm's cult comic-book The Authority. His critically acclaimed Graphic Novel White Death has been hugely successful in both Europe and, more recently, the US. He and White Death artist Charlie Adlard have recently teamed up again for a Batman story due for release soon.

Jim Murray

Jim Murray is one of 2000 AD's most popular artists, having illustrated the Batman / Judge Dredd story Die Laughing, as well as Harmony, Holocaust 12, Judge Dredd, Mean Machine and Sláine. He also contributed to DC Comics' JLA: Riddle of the Beast.