I'm Matt Brooker, and I've been working as a comic artist, inker & colourist since 1988. Things that make my life worthwhile are: drawing comics, fine cameras, big kittens, nice chocolate, good company and visible panty line.

Here's where you might have heard of me:

• Writer/Artist on Timulo for Deadline Magazine, 1989-90.
• Artist on Lazarus Churchyard (written by Warren Ellis), Blast! Magazine 1991, then collected by Tundra UK as 3 volumes and a trade paperback, 1993. Reprinted in collection by Image in February 2001and appearing in the Megazine from June 2001.
• Colourist on much of Miracleman, The Golden Age by Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham, Eclipse Comics 1991-3. Collected as a trade paperback by HarperCollins.
• Inker on Sandman #59-63, with Neil Gaiman & Marc Hempel, 1993. Collected in the trade paperback The Kindly Ones by Vertigo (DC Comics).
• Contributor to Paradox Big Books of Death, Freaks, Gangs, Grimm, Little Criminals, Losers, Martyrs, Scandal, Thugs, The Unexplained, Urban Legends and Weirdos, 1993-9.
• Inker on the one-shot Kill Your Boyfriend, with Grant Morrisson and Philip Bond, Published by Vertigo (DC Comics).
• Artist on Kingdom of the Wicked (written by Ian Edginton) published as a four episode mini-series and collected as a trade paperback by Caliber Comics, 1996-7.
• Contributing artist on Grendel: Black White & Red #1, Dark Horse Comics, 1999
• Artist & colourist on the two episode Batman story Bread & Circuses (written by Ian Edginton), published in Legends of the Dark Knight #117 and Shadow of the Bat #85 in 1999, collected in the trade paperback No Man's Land by DC Comics, 2000.
• Regular colourist for 2000AD, December 1998-August 2000.
• Artist on Future Shocks for 2000AD, October 2000 to July 2002.
• Artist on Scarlet Traces (written by Ian Edginton), Megazine 4.16-4.18 (Autumn 2002), collected by Dark Horse Comics August 2003.
• Artist on Leviathan (written by Ian Edginton), 2000AD, Summer 2003 (sorry, don't have prog numbers!)
• Artist on XTNCT (written by Paul Cornell), Megazine July-December 2003 (sorry, don't have issue numbers)
• Artist on Judge Dredd for 2000AD & the Megazine, 2004

My paternal grandmother always claimed to be a direct descendant of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Beaconsfield. No-one in the family really took her seriously, but when I was starting up as a comic artist I needed to borrow money, and she offered to lend me what I needed provided the supposed family connection was somehow commemorated in the name of the business. I chose to use the pre-anglicized version of Dizzy's name, and became D'Emon Draughtsman that you know and love (delete as appropriate) today.

In the end, it worked out really well; my given name, Matt Brooker, is easy to mis-hear (Mark/Max/Mac Booker/Brook/Brookes), but no-one forgets D'Israeli, or mistakes it for anything else.

Have a look at my own long-term project,
D'Adventures of 'I.S.R.A.E.L.I.

Click here to view my full CV.