Simon Gane

Simon Gane, a British artist born in Bath, England, is best known for his clean, expressive ligne claire style, which draws on the clear-line traditions of Hergé and Jacques Tardi, as well as the more contemporary work of Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar. After attending art school in the U.K., his first published work appeared in his self-produced punk fanzine *Arnie* and various minicomics, later collected as *Punk Strips* in 2000. Gane’s U.S. debut came in 2004 with *Graphic Classics #9: Robert Louis Stevenson* and the children’s Godzilla comic *All Flee!* for Top Shelf Productions. He gained wider recognition illustrating the five-issue series *Paris* with writer Andi Watson for Slave Labor Graphics, then moved to Vertigo Comics for *The Vinyl Underground*—a London-set occult detective story—and later *Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story* and *Northlanders*. His most credited titles include *They're Not Like Us*, *The Vinyl Underground*, and *Godzilla*. Gane is also the official illustrator for Burning Sky Brewery in East Sussex. His career spans 2007–2023 across 51 issues, with no major awards recorded.