Matt Timson

{{short description|British comic book artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = | birth_date = 20th century | birth_place = | nationality = British | cartoonist = | write = | art = | pencil = y | ink = y | edit = | publish = | letter = | color = y | alias = | signature = | notable works = | awards = | website = {{URL|matttimson.com}} | nonUS = y }} '''Matt Timson''' is a British comic book artist who resides in Leicester.

==Biography== Timson has done a lot of work (especially covers) for British small press comics including ''Solar Wind'', ''The End Is Nigh'' and ''FutureQuake'', as well as working as a freelance illustrator.

In recent years he has begun to get professional comics work, on ''Popgun'' with Leah Moore and John Reppion,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080407210231/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11572 "POPGUN" - The Ultimate Comics Mixtape], Comic Book Resources, September 27, 2007</ref> and most recently on ''Impaler'', after the title moved from Image Comics to Top Cow.<ref>[http://www.topcow.com/impaler/ Impaler at Top Cow] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121102548/http://www.topcow.com/impaler |date=2008-11-21 }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081208123514/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17016 WW Chicago: Vlad Company- Harms talks "Impaler"], Comic Book Resources, June 29, 2008</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081212233600/http://comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=1603&disp=table Preview: ''Impaler'' #1], Comic Book Resources</ref> Comics critic Timothy Callahan in a review of ''Impaler'' #3 said:

{{cquote|his work on "Impaler" is startlingly evocative. His fully painted (or mixed-media) art shifts from bloody violence to haunting melancholy to pastel cheerlessness. He can do murky action scenes and crisply colored diner sequences with consistent beauty. It's a savage beauty, appropriate to a horror-action comic, but it's one that recalls Dave McKean mixed with Bill Sienkiewicz mixed with Frazer Irving. ... He's an artist to keep an eye on, to be sure.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090528003521/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1044 Review: ''Impaler'' #3], Comic Book Resources, May 26, 2009</ref>}}

==Bibliography==

===Comics=== Interior comics work includes: * "The Ripper" (written by Arthur Wyatt, in ''FutureQuake'' #1, 2003) <ref>[http://www.arthurwyatt.co.uk/comics/ripper1.html "The Ripper"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212002559/http://www.arthurwyatt.co.uk/comics/ripper1.html |date=2006-02-12 }}</ref> * "The Omnocular Man" (written by Paul Scott, in ''Solar Wind'' #2, 2003 & #3, 2004) * "54 Jones" (written by Paul Scott, in ''Omnivistascope'' Model One, 2005 & Model Two, 2006) * "Labour 7" (in Twelve a - retelling of the 12 tasks of Herakles) * "The Last War" (written by Al Ewing, in ''The End Is Nigh'' #2, 2005) * "Death Squid" (written by Paul Scott, in ''Solar Wind'' #1, 2003 & #2, 2003) * ''Gutsville'' #2 (written by Simon Spurrier, with art by Frazer Irving, Image Comics, 2007) * "Deadeye" (written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, in ''Popgun'' #1 and 2, Image Comics, 2007, 2008) * ''Impaler'' (with William Harms, 5-issue limited series, Top Cow Productions, December 2008 - March 2010, ongoing, tpb, 160 pages, August 2010, {{ISBN|1-60706-101-5}}) * "Zip" (with Andi Ewington and 44 other artists, in ''Forty-Five'', anthology graphic novel, Com.x, February 2010, {{ISBN|1-61584-713-8}}) * ''The Darkness'' #89 (with Joshua Hale Fialkov, Top Cow, January 2011)

===Covers===  *''Solar Wind'' #1 *''The End Is Nigh'' #1 (right) *''FutureQuake'' #4 * ''Violent'' #8 * ''Omnivistascope Model One''

==Awards== *2010: Nominated for "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==References== {{Refbegin}}  *{{comicbookdb|type=creator|id=14545|title=Matt Timson}} {{Refend}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://www.matttimson.com}} *[https://matttimson.blogspot.com/ Matt Timson's blog] *[http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=208 The making of Impaler] by Matt Timson, Comic Monsters.com *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090329165614/http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=26593 FULL ISSUE - Top Cow's 'Impaler #1'], Newsarama, March 11, 2009 *[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41627#20 ''Impaler'' #1-3 review], Ain't It Cool News

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