‘Fearless’ comic gets Marvel approval

An Irish artist who has worked on Star Wars comics has been chosen to draw a new superhero series for comic giants Marvel.

Will Sliney, 29, from Ballycotton, Co Cork, started illustrating for comics in 2007. He has drawn several comics spun-off from the science fiction TV series Farscape for Boom! Studios.

In Apr 2011, he drew the strip ‘Dug Out’ for the British comic Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It broke records around Europe, selling over 250,000 issues in Germany alone.