LEIGH GALLAGHER

Tell us a little about yourself as an artist, how you got started, and a bit about your career so far.

I’ve been a Merseyside comic artist for 18 years or so (yeesh!). I was the ‘talented art kid’ in school that everyone knew, but then I was humbled by the real world! Took me a looooong time to get my first break in comics, going to UK conventions year after year, getting nice encouragement and the odd audition from kind editors who started remembering my face. I gave myself until my 25th birthday to get my first comics job, otherwise I would try