The guest list for Hi-Ex 2010 is already looking exciting - more details to appear soon! If you are a comics professional interested in attending Hi-Ex, please e-mail us!

Charlie Adlard	Asia Alfasi	Jasper Bark	Michael Carroll	Vince Danks
Gary Erskine	Al Ewing	Simon Fraser	Roger Gibson	Alan Grant
Ferg Handley	John Higgins	Sally Hurst	Inko	Cam Kennedy
Chie Kutsuwada	Colin MacNeil	Sarah McIntyre	Jim Medway	Alex Moore
Gary Northfield	Graeme Neil Reid	Neil Roberts	Michel Rodrigue	Ian Sharman
Dave Shelton	Kev F. Sutherland	Dave Taylor	Stevie White
Please note: all guests appearances are subject to work commitments, therefore we cannot guarantee that any particular guest will be able to attend.

	Charlie Adlard Fan-favourite Charlie Adlard is perhaps best known for his art on the massively popular Image comic The Walking Dead (soon to be a major TV series!), but he also has a huge following for his work on 2000 AD (Savage, Judge Dredd, Armitage), Marvel (X-Men, Bloodrush, Muties, Warlock), DC (Green Lantern / Green Arrow, Batman and Superman, Harley Quinn) as well as a number of licensed properties, including The Crow, X-Files and Mars Attacks.
	Asia Alfasi Asia Alfasi is a Manga writer/artist currently living in Birmingham. She was born in Lybia and moved to Scotland as a child. She was the first female to win the highly regarded Hi8us Midlands Stripsearch competition. Her graphic novel Native Narratives, dealing with the events in the life of a young Muslim girl in Lybia and Scotland, was released in 2008.
	Jasper Bark Jasper has written for just about everyone in British comics, from 2000 AD and Viz through to The Beano, as well as four cult novels, the most recent of which is Way of the Barefoot Zombie. Not content with that he has also produced a host of children's books and graphic novels that have been translated into 7 different languages and are even (to his shame) used in schools to improve literacy. You can follow Jasper's adventures on YouTube.
	Michael Carroll Michael Carroll is the author of fifteen published books, including the New Heroes series of superhero novels (published in the USA as the Quantum Prophecy series). He has also written comic strips and articles for 2000 AD, FutureQuake, Zarjaz, SFX, Judge Dredd Megazine and Solar Wind, to name but a few. His next novel is Super Human, a prequel to the New Heroes series, to be published in the USA in May 2010. Photo by the lovely Leonia Carroll
	Vince Danks Vince has previously worked on Dr Who Monthly, the Red Dwarf Smegazine and "some inking work for the Marvel UK superhero line", before he moved on to his own self-published works including the anthology title Raven and Sapphire. Currently, Vince is the artist (and, with Roger Gibson, the co-plotter) of the monthly British detective series Harker published by Ariel Press. We're delighted to announce that the second collected edition of Harker will be launched at Hi-Ex 2010!
	Gary Erskine Gary has been illustrating for nineteen years and contributed character designs and storyboards for television, commercials and games development for every major comics company, as well as licensed properties such as Star Wars, Terminator, The Mask, Shrek, Madagascar and Transformers. He recently worked with Garth Ennis on Virgin Comics' highly-acclaimed Dan Dare series.
	Al Ewing A regular contributor to 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, Al Ewing began his career as a contributor to many small-press comics, such as Solar Wind, FutureQuake, Dogbreath, Zarjaz and The End Is Nigh. He has also written three novels for Abaddon Books.
	Simon Fraser Simon Fraser started making small-press comics while at Art College in Edinburgh (The Heaving Cube, Atomic) then broke into the mainstream with a short stint on Roy of the Rovers. He drew the graphic novel Lux & Alby: Sign-On and Save the Universe for Acme/Dark Horse, based on the novels of Martin Millar. From there Simon went on to an award winning collaboration with Robbie Morrison on 2000AD/Judge Dredd Megazine, first with Shimura then Nikolai Dante. Simon is an occasional artist on Judge Dredd, has drawn an adaption of Richard Matheson's Hellhouse for IDW and helps run the New York based Webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE . He is currently working on finishing Nikolai Dante (aww!), The Adventures of Lilly Mackenzie on ACT-I-VATE and an original graphic novel for First Second Books. Simon has lived in Scotland, Canada, Italy, France, Austria, Tanzania and Kenya. He is currently residing in Brooklyn NY with his Wife and Daughter.
	Roger Gibson One half of the creative team behind Ariel Press's Harker (the second collected edition of which will be launched at Hi-Ex!), Roger's career in comics began with strips for an X-Men fan-club. It wasn't long before he teamed up with Vince Danks. Together, they worked on the Raven anthology, including work on strips such as Mad Girl, The Bishop and Griffin, Roger on writing duties and Vince drawing. Roger has also written two novels: Loop and an adaptation of Ariel Press's forthcoming fantasy series Gravestown.
	Alan Grant Alan Grant is best known for his comic work on Batman and Judge Dredd. He was the only UK writer on the hit BBC TV kids' show Ace Lightning and and has just finished the script for a graphic novel featuring the 1812 war between Canada and the USA.
	Ferg Handley Ferg Handley has been working as a professional comics writer for twelve years. He is currently scripting Spectacular Spider-Man and GI JOE (Panini), as well as contributing to Marvel Heroes and Commando (D.C. Thomson). His past credits include Marvel Rampage and A.T.O.M. (Panini), The Dandy, Football Picture Library and Inferno (Games Workshop).
	John Higgins John is the Harvey Award-winning colourist on Watchmen and an even more accomplished artist, having worked on World Without End, Hellblazer, Judge Dredd and hundreds of other projects. In 1999 John single-handedly wrote, drew, inked, coloured and published his own comic, Razorjack which in March of 2009 was published in a brand-new collected edition - with a new comic strip story - from Com.x.
	Sally Hurst Colourist and designer at Turmoil Colour Studios where she is responsible for colouring and all aspects of digitally converted art. Her recent colouring work includes "Darren Dead" and "Judge Dredd" for Rebellion, she also pencilled, inked and coloured a page of comic art for "45" from Com.x and is painting a series of large canvasses, with a theme of "Self Portrait by Proxy".
	Inko Inko is a talented UK-based Manga author / artist, creator of such gems as the three-volume publication The Confession, the strip "Search & Avoid" (published in the anti-war comic The War) and the horror-strip "Ookami" (in Tales of Terror). Inko is a prominent member of the Manga group Umisen-Yamasen.
	Cam Kennedy Comics legend Cam Kennedy wowed the crowd at Hi-Ex 2008, and we're thrilled that he'll be returning for 2010! A long-time contributor to Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper and The VCs for 2000 AD, Cam Kennedy is an absolute fan-favourite. He has also worked for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse on such projects as Star Wars, The Punisher, Batman, Daredevil and Lobo.
	Chie Kutsuwada Chie Kutsuwada - also known as Chi-Tan - is a Manga creator whose work was shortlisted for the first Manga Jiman competition organised by the Japanese Embassy. Some of her works have been published as a part of The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 2 and 3. Her most recent work is Manga Shakespeare's As You Like It, and there are two more books scheduled for in 2010.
	Colin MacNeil Since leaving Inverness in 1986, Alpha killer MacNeil has brought his Chopper to bear upon many a comic strip. Colin Dredds people asking which is his favourite, so go on - ruin his day! Also known to "do cute" on occasion... ask him about Puffins.
	Sarah McIntyre Sarah McIntyre loves hopping the gap between comics and picture books, and is best known in comics as the creator of Vern and Lettuce, a weekly strip that ran in The DFC and which will eventually be coming out as a book with the DFC Library. She illustrated Morris the Mankiest Monster, an absolutely disgusting book written by Giles Andreae (creator of Purple Ronnie) and in March will be launching her book with Gillian Rogerson, You Can't Eat a Princess!, full of chocolate, space ships and aliens. Visit her blog for daily updates.
	Jim Medway Jim Medway drew the Crab Lane Crew for The DFC, and is currently working on his first proper comic book Playing Out. He also runs Creating Comics sessions in schools, galleries and libraries, as well as self-publishing his own Paw Quality Comics.
	Alex Moore Alex Moore has previously worked as storyboard / concept artist for Wilkinson Productions before making the move into comics. She is currently working on her first title for Renegade Arts, Turning Tiger, a two-part story written by Richmond Clements (yes, that's the same Richmond Clements who's one of the co-organisers of Hi-Ex!).
	Gary Northfield Gary has written and drawn comic strips for many popular children's comics, including The Beano's only creator-owned strip, Derek the Sheep (also published in a collected edition by Bloomsbury and as Norbert Le Mouton by Actes Sud - L'an 2 in France), Pinky's Crackpot Circus for The Dandy, World's Greatest Heroes for National Geographic Kids and Little Cutie for The DFC.
	Graeme Neil Reid Graeme spends his time annoying art editors into giving him work as an illustrator. He is a member of Scottish daily arts blog Scotch Corner and when he isn't working he watches Doctor Who, sci-fi / horror / war / anything movies and draws sketches for sale at comic conventions. You can keep up to date with all of this at his blog
	Neil Roberts Neil Roberts is a freelance artist based in the UK. He is currently the series artist on the hugely successful Horus Heresy range of books from The Black Library. Also, he has contributed cover artwork for 2000 A.D., illustrations and covers for The Black Library, Catalyst Game Labs, Privateer Press, Fantasy Flight Games and Mongoose Publishing and strips for various small press publishers. Before going freelance, Neil spent 12 years in the videogame business working on Micro Machines, Colin McRae Rally, Ice Age 2, Haze, Star Wars Battlefront 3 and many other products.
	Michel Rodrigue Artist Michel Rodrigue has worked for the design team of "Cambé" (Cambérabéro) clothing since 1998. In 1987, Rodrigue created the mascot for the rugby World Cup; the next year, he drew The Conspirateurs, for Tintin magazine. In 1990, he succeeded René Pellos in producing three albums of Les Pieds Nickelés, a series about rugby and European football. In 1999, he published the first of three albums of Doggyguard, written by Bob de Groot. In 2003 he took up the story of Clifton for four albums. Two years later, with his friend, actor Pierre Aucaigne, he "adopted" the big, kind dog Cubitus. Michel is currently working as a writer on two new projects; one is illustrated by René Haussman and the second by Italian artists.
	Ian Sharman Ian Sharman is an experienced comic book writer and artist living and working in the UK. He founded Orang Utan Comics with Peter Rogers in 2006 and functions as Managing Editor for the indie publisher. Ian has a wealth of published credits as writer, inker, colourist and letterer and has worked with a number of publishers including AAM/Markosia, Slave Labor, Top Shelf, Image and Marvel/Panini.
	Dave Shelton Dave Shelton's canine comic noir, Good Dog, Bad Dog, appeared in The Guardian and the late lamented DFC and will be published in book form in March 2010. Dave lives in Cambridge with 349 pens.
	Kev F. Sutherland Kev F Sutherland is a comedian, artist, writer and producer. For The Beano he writes and draws Bash St. Kids, and has also worked for Marvel Comics, Viz, 2000 AD and Dr Who. His "Comic Art Masterclasses" have drawn considerable praise from teachers and parents for Kev's ability to enthuse even the most reluctant readers.
	Dave Taylor Dave Taylor started drawing comics in 1990 for Marvel UK and went on to work on many Batman projects for DC, including a twelve issue run on Batman: Shadow of the Bat, written by Alan Grant. Taylor later teamed up with Grant on Big Robots, a Judge Anderson story for 2000 AD written by the two of them. Taylor has also contributed five Dredd stories and a number of covers for both 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. His Tongue*Lash creator-owned series, for adults only, has been published in numerous countries world-wide. He has produced design and concept work for computer game companies including Sony and is presently working on a prestige format Batman book. He thinks robot oppression is not too far away.
	Stevie White Stephen White started his career as in-house illustrator for the city of Edinburgh Council, getting his first drawing published at the age of 16. He has since gone on to work with D C Thomson & Co., Ltd on their comic publications, The Dandy and The Beano. His first independent graphic novel, Milk, was published in 2009.

Please note: all guests appearances are subject to work commitments (and, as we discovered in 2008, uncooperative weather!). As with any convention, guests may have no choice but to cancel without notice. We hope, of course, that this won't happen!

Hi-Ex 2009 guest list
Hi-Ex 2008 guest list