About: Why 'C2D4'?

My name is Tony Wicks, and I've been drawing and writing comics since I was seven years old. I drew a one-off strip called 'Komikaze' back in 1987. He was a kind of vague homage to my fave artist Moebius, both in style, and also in the 'stream-of-consciousness' method I used to create the story...Blank page, no script, see what transpires. It's one of the few strips I still felt an affinity with when looking through my old portfolios when I started drawing again in October 2005. The name 'Komikaze' was also one I'd wanted to use as a fanzine title or company name, back in the day. "No," people would say, "it's like calling your company 'Titanic' or 'Suicide' -- it suggests failure." Well, that may be so, but in my humble opinion I think it's a bloody cool name. Trouble is so does everyone else, which is why I'm not using his name anymore, just his image. Still, the idea of someone dying for (or on) his art endures. Hence C2D4, 'Comics 2 Die 4', the name of the company formed by myself and script writer Martin Buxton.

Martin Buxton - martin@c2d4.com :

Martin was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, but raised in Clacton, Essex. Some of his earliest memories involve comics, whether it's reading the Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips and Buster, or the second hand Superman comics his nan used to buy him.

This early dalliance with the media led to an unhealthily long obsession as he moved onto titles such as Eagle, Battle and then eventually reading his brother's copies of 2000ad. Through this he discovered Quality Comics reprints of Judge Dredd, and then specialist comic shops. He's been broke ever since.

Four years ago, he started working in Chelmsford where he met Tony Wicks. They quickly found they both loved comics and began sharing their recent and past purchases. They soon realised that they felt the same way about what they wanted from comics and decided to work together on their ideas.

Tony Wicks - tony@c2d4.com :

Tony was born in Chelmsford, moving overseas at the age of 11 to Spain and Gibraltar, but returning to Chelmsford where he lives to this day.

He began drawing at the age of six, when he discovered 'The Ecology & Evolution of the Dinosaurs' in his parents' book shelf, copying every dinosaur faithfully in pencil. Then came comics, starting with 1970's Marvel (Captain Britain, Hulk, Luke Cage, Spiderman etc) Battle Picture Weekly, Whoopee, Roy of the Rovers, 2000ad and at the end of his stint as a copyist, 1980's DC Comics. At the age of 12 he began creating his own superhero comics, and continued drawing obsessively until the late 80's when, at 21 years old he traded his pencils for drumsticks, needing a change in direction after so many years glued to drawing pads/ boards.

In the late 90's, around the time he met Martin at work, Tony's comics buying habits had resurfaced, followed by the need to draw again. In October 2005 Tony bought a new drawing board, and began the slow process of regaining his rusty drawing skills. First came a load of sketches and various character cameos, followed by an attempt at a self penned quadrilogy, 'Dimo'. Then after buying an Intuous Wacom 3 digital tablet, his first completed project in years came about: 'Last of the Chickenheads'. This became the first C2D4 Comics publication.