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Who we are:
Martin Buxton:
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.
Other stuff happened in between, but the long and short of it is they felt the same way about what they wanted from comics and decided to work together on their ideas.
Tony Wicks:
Tony was born in Chelmsford, and after living in a variety of places, including Southampton, Brighouse, Spain and Gibraltar, returned 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 stopped, needing a change in direction after so many years glued to drawing pads/ boards.
In the late 90's, at about the same time he met Martin at work, Tony's comics buying habits had resurfaced, followed eventually by the need to draw again. In October 2005 Tony bought a new drawing board, and began the slow process
of regaining his neglected 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'.
Tony is now working with Martin, drawing to his scripts and constantly co-creating ideas for new joint projects.