Richard Neville
Richard Neville (born 1979) is a comic strip artist, writer and poet based in the North East of England. He is the author of The Nev Show, The Plastic Box, Emerald Ize and countless poems and short stories. He is pretty sure this is as close as he will get to anything approaching a Wikipedia entry.
Neville began The Nev Show in 1997 after dropping out of University. He spent the next 12 years making very slight changes to it before putting it back in his drawer for several months at a time. In 2009 Neville decided there was as much value in the story of the comic strip than in the strip itself and produced Neville Ever Growing Old? A lesson in taking too long to do too little OR How a comic strip took over my life.
In a similar vein, before starting any new work, Neville spent the remainder of 2009 completing work on Emerald Ize – a pirate novel – Daft Lad and the 5 Hills Challenge – a homage to Oor Wullie and 1950′s era Dennis the Menace – The Plastic Box – a comic strip centred around a band – and Lashed: The Freddie Lash Story – the story of the Devil’s administrator.
Neville is fond of the following quote from Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) addressing a graduating college class:
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
