Michael J. Austin is a fine artist who lives and works in the UK. Initially a comic book artist and illustrator, his painterly style led to him leaving this genre and concentrating on fine art in 1996.

Mick Austin started his artistic career in 1981 forMarvel Comics producing cover art and a very brief 'Timesmasher' (written by the then editorPaul Neary) series and also Blakes Seven before moving ontoWarrior mainly painting cover art for which he won an Eagle Award in 1982 for his Marvelman cover. He then drew bothJudge Dredd andJudge Anderson for2000 AD between 1989 and 1995. He also drew the computer game based strip Urban Strike during this period, various Tharg's Future Shocks and the featured strip inDoctor Who Magazine during this period.

He also worked for several other publications up to 1996, notably as features artist for The Sunday Times from 1982 to 1985; illustrating stories for the magazines Men Only, Mayfair, the TV Times as well as many book covers and several film posters. Some of his last comic work was forFleetway's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the early 1990s and a final stint on2000 AD and Judge Dredd before he was offered his first one-man (fine art) show at Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery in October 1997. He is represented by J Cooper at most major art fairs in the UK as well as in the US and Germany and is represented in the southern hemisphere by the Everard Read Gallery of South Africa.

In 2003 he accompanied the Prince of Wales as tour artist to India and Oman.

His last two exhibitions of 2006 and 2007 concentrated on the Toro Bravo, or ‘fighting bull’, painted not from the bull-ring but in the sierras of southern Spain.

His work has been reproduced as open and limited edition prints by The Art Group of London.

• Doctor Who:
  • "Skywatch-7" (withSteve Parkhouse, inDoctor Who Monthly #58 and theDoctor Who Winter Special 1981)
  • The Tides of Time (with,Steve Parkhouse, 212 pages, 2005,ISBN 1-904159-92-3) collects:
    • "The Stockbridge Horror" (inDoctor Who Monthly #70-75)
    • "Lunar Lagoon" (inDoctor Who Monthly #76-77)
    • "4-Dimensional Vistas" (inDoctor Who Monthly #78-83)
• The Madman (withPaul Neary, inWarrior, 1982)
• Judge Anderson (withAlan Grant):
  • "Beyond the Void" (in2000 AD #612-613, 1989)
  • "Judge Corey - Leviathan's Farewell" (in2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1989)
  • "Confessions of a She-Devil" (in2000 AD Annual 1990, 1989)
• Tales of the Doghouse (with Stewart Edwards):
  • "Froggy Natterjack" (in2000 AD #625, 1989)
  • "Ratty" (in2000 AD #626, 1989)
• Judge Dredd:
  • "An Elm Street Nightmare" (withJohn Wagner, in2000 AD #635, 1989)
  • "Curse of the Spider Man" (withJohn Wagner, in2000 AD #639, 1989)
  • "Birdman" (withJohn Wagner, inJudge Dredd Mega Special 1989)
  • "The Chieftain" (withGarth Ennis, in2000 AD #832-834, 1993)
  • "Tough Justice" (withMark Millar, in2000 AD #840, 1993)
  • "Manchu Candidate" (withAlan McKenzie, in2000 AD #881-883, 1994)
  • "Wilderlands" (withJohn Wagner, in2000 AD #904-914, 1994)
  • "The Candidates" (withJohn Wagner, in2000 AD #916-917, 1994)
  • "Crusade" (withGrant Morrison andMark Millar, in2000 AD #928-937, 1995)
• Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • "Opening Moves" (withJohn Smith, in2000 AD #629, 1989)
  • "It's Alive!" (withJohn Tomlinson, in2000 AD #717, 1991)
  • "Holiday of a Lifetime" ((with Paul Carstairs, in2000 AD #746, 1991)
• Tharg's Terror Tales (withAlan McKenzie):
  • "The Last Victim" (in2000 AD #840, 1993)
  • "Meat is Meat" (in2000 AD Yearbook 1994), 1993)
• Indigo Prime: "The Loa in the Machine" (illustrated text story, withJohn Smith, in2000AD Winter Special 1992)
• Urban Strike (withSteve White/Anthony Williams, in2000 AD #950-955, 1995)
• Vector 13: "Case Four: Parts and Labour" (withDan Abnett, in2000 AD #991, 1996)

• 1996
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art96, London
• 1997
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art97, London
• 1998
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art98, London
• 1999
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art99, London
• 2001
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art2001, London
  • ArtLondon art fair, Duke of York's, London
  • The painting ‘Head’ was chosen to represent and advertise the Hunting Art Prize.
• 2002
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair -Art2002, London
  • ArtLondon art fair, Duke of York's, London
  • Paintings become available as prints and cards – printed by the Art Group.
• 2003
  • The London Contemporary Art Fair - Art2003
  • ArtLondon art fair, Burton's Court, London
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • Tour Artist for the Prince of Wales – India and Oman
• 2004
  • LondonArtFair (art2004) – Jonathan Cooper, London
  • ArtLondon art fair, Burton's Court, London – One-man show of Indian & Oman
  • One-man show at Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
• 2005
  • LondonArtFair – Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  • ArtLondon art fair, Burton's Court – Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London

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• English comics artists

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