Rian Hughes

Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, writer, typographer and sometime comic book writer and artist who has worked extensively for the British and American publishing, music, advertising and comic book industries. He has written and drawn comics for 2000AD and Batman: Black and White, and designed logos for James Bond, X-Men, Superman, Hed Kandi and The Avengers, collected in the Eisner-nominated book Logo a Gogo (Korero Press, 2018). He has published two novels, XX (Picador, Overlook Press, 2020) and The Black Locomotive (Picador, 2021). Recent books include Custom Lettering of the 20s and 30s, the latest in the Custom Lettering trilogy, the all-ages wordless graphic novel I Am A Number (Top Shelf), Soho Dives, Soho Divas (Image) which collects his burlesque drawings, and Cult-Ure: Ideas Can Be Dangerous (Fiell) in which he sets out his memetics manifesto. He has a collection of Thunderbirds memorabilia, a fridge full of vodka, and a stack of easy listening albums which he plays very quietly.