About

Restoring the past…

Allan Harvey is a Welsh artist, graphic designer and writer with a passion for comics. He has created comics for a variety of publishers over the years, including Factor Fiction Press, POS and the Comics Creators Guild. He has also written articles for Back Issue magazine, published by Twomorrows, looking at aspects of comics history.

Allan has been heavily involved in the restoration of numerous classic comics, utilizing his extensive digital photographic and graphics expertise. The A Distant Soil restoration, which saw him digitally remastering several hundred pages of Colleen Doran artwork to pristine glory for a new graphic novel edition for Image Comics, led to further such projects. He lettered and did much of the production work, including the classic Marvel cover restorations, for the New York Times best-selling Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir, Stan Lee’s graphic novel autobiography.

Other work includes restoring many Sam Glanzman comics for It’s Alive Press; the Eisner Award-nominated Atlas at War! - reprinting 1950s Marvel war comics - for Dead Reckoning; the normalman Omnibus for Jim Valentino; Hugo Pratt Picture Library for Rebellion; and the ongoing Atlas Comics Library for Fantagraphics that brings classic 1950s Marvel comics back into print for the first time in decades.

He lives in London, and is allergic to his cat.