Mike Higgs

Mike Higgs is a British cartoonist, writer, designer, and editor best known for creating the offbeat humor strip *The Cloak*, the daily strip *Moonbird*, and the children's character Dopey Dinosaur. He was born in the United Kingdom and began his career in comics in the mid-1960s. In 1964, he drew a parody of The Shadow called "The Shudder" for a fanzine, which he revived in 1967 as *The Cloak* for the British weeklies *Pow!* and *Smash!*. The strip followed a gadget-laden secret agent for Scotland Yard who battled oddball villains like Deathshead and agents of G.H.O.U.L., aided by sidekicks Mole and Shortstuff, and later the flirtatious Lady Shady. Higgs’s idiosyncratic, pop-culture-infused art gave the strip a modern feel. He designed the badge for the first British Comic Art Convention in 1968 and helped organize the first London Comic Mart. After *The Cloak* ended in 1969, he drew *Space School* for *Whizzer and Chips* and *Thundercap* for *Buster*. His daily strip *Moonbird* ran in Associated Newspapers and was collected into children’s books. In the 1980s, he created Dopey Dinosaur, publishing a series of rhyming paperbacks in the style of the Mr. Men books. Higgs’s work appears in our catalog across 12 issues from 1968 to 2000, with most credits on *Månefuglene* and *Pow! and Wham!*