Michael White
Mike White has had a career in comics that has lasted almost forty years. Interested in drawing comics, he began sending samples off to companies before moving to London and visiting agencies. His earliest work appeared from Micron in around 1963/64 in their schoolgirls' libraries. As White recalls, the company would accept artwork from artists who were still learning their craft and he is not especially proud of these early efforts.

White first major strip was Jackaroo Joe for Valiant in 1965-66 and his talents for adopting the styles of other artists led him to working in the style of Mike Western in Champion where he took over the artwork for School for Spacemen. Other strips for Fleetway in the late 1960s/early 1970s include The Lords of Lilliput Island, Cannonball Craig, The Team Terry Kept in a Box, Whiz-Along Wheeler, The Test Match Terrors; at the same time he was working for D. C. Thomson, usually working on one-off strips rather than series.

White was a regular on Action in 1976, filling in on episodes of 'The Running Man' and 'Death Game 1990' before taking on the series 'Hell's Highway'. In the revised Action he drew 'Hellman of Hammer Force'.

He then found regular work in 2000AD, drawing many episodes of Tharg's Future Shocks, Ro-Jaws Robo Tales and Tharg's Time Twisters. He notably drew the Abelard Snazz stories written by Alan Moore and stories by Steve Moore and Grant Morrison. He drew a run of The Mean Arena in 1981-82, written by Tom Tully. He teamed up with Tully again to draw Sintek in Tiger in 1982-84.

He continued to draw for D. C. Thomson, his strips including 'Deep Sea Danny's Iron Fish' and 'Roul the Warrior' in Buddy and We Are United in Champ.

After drawing Dexter's Dozen for Roy of the Rovers, he took over the lead strip and drew 'Roy' for six years. During White's tenure, Roy broke the record for the most goals scored in league and cup games when, in May 1992, he scored his 436th goal.

White was convinced that comics were not going to last and began requesting that his agents find him illustration work and by the time the boys' adventure comic ground to an end, White was already established. In recent years he has drawn illustrations for historical educational books published by various firms, amongst them Thalamus, Templar and Miles Kelley Publishing.

He continues to draw comics, most recently for Commando, having drawn his first cover in 1997 and his first interior artwork in 2003. His latest story appeared in March 2011.