Guests for 2026

Celebrating 40 years working in comics, Mike has drawn pretty much every major character at the big companies—X-Men, Batman, JLA, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Judge Dredd, Slaine, and Rogue Trooper amongst 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.

In animation, he's worked on shows as diverse as Warhammer 40k, Horrid Henry, and many Welsh language pre-school shows.

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.

Last year he was artist on the Mike Batt / David Quantick La Croix Noire comic tied into a concept album.

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 Freddies; he currently illustrates the D&D Adventurer part-work magazine.

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, Lazarus Project, The Famous Five and many more with less genre cred (Silent Witness, Grace, and Industry to name three).

He is also an artist on the recent Official Doctor Who Adult Colouring Book.

In addition to his web page, you can find him on Amazon.co.uk, Instagram, and Facebook.

Andy Lane is a British author and journalist best known for the Young Sherlock Holmes series of Young Adult novels.

He has written novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

His Young Adult books are generally published under the name Andrew Lane, while media spin-offs are Andy Lane.