The Originals: The Essential Edition - Hardcover

"Gibbons writes with a wonderfully naturalistic ear and evolves his art to a simpler, more European style..." -- SFX January 2005

"Gorgeous, a pop-culture gem." -- Flux Magazine 1 January 2005

"Think Quadrophenia with futuristic transport and more violence...a moody story of friendship, belonging and, apparently, wheel shortages." (86%) -- Loaded Magazine

"a work of art in it's own right and a place comic artists can draw inspiration from." -- Digital Creative Arts Issue 16

..expertly paced...for anyone who saw, lived, even rented Quadrophenia, the story is steeped in all the right details." -- Guardian Review 9th April 2005

Looks like Gibbons hasn't finished making comic book history yet. -- The List, December 2-16, 2004

Marvellously thought out, astoundingly detailed and something that you'll go back to time and again; this is simply stunning. --Big Cheese Magazine, February 2005

The Mods are back, in an ambitious solo project three years in the making. --go! December 10th 2004

The Originals is as smart as a fashion-forward suit [and] has the powerful tug of a timeless fable. B+ --Entertainment Weekly, November 8 2004

Dave Gibbons has drawn and written for most comics publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has encompassed DR WHO, SUPERMAN, BATMAN, GREEN LANTERN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, DR STRANGE, THE HULK, PREDATOR, and ALIENS.

WATCHMEN, his collaboration with writer Alan Moore, is the best-selling graphic novel ever published and became a major motion picture.

His autobiographical graphic novel THE ORIGINALS won an Eisner Award in 2005. His recent work has included KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, with Mark Millar, now also a major motion picture. He co-created GIVE ME LIBERTY and MARTHA WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR with writer Frank Miller.

He was appointed "Comics Laureate" of the UK in 2014, with the brief to develop the use of comics in education. The University of Dundee awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Comic Arts in 2015.