Dave Gibbons was born on April 14.
Midway through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series and artist Frank Hampson who, alongside Frank Bellamy, Don Lawrence and Ron Turner are well-liked and inspirational artists to Gibbons, whose "style evolved out of [his] love for the MAD magazine artists like Wally Wood and Will Elder"
 2005  March 2006), co-written with Geoff Johns, which spun off into an ongoing, Gibbons-written series in August 2006

