Hello. My name is Josh Hicks, and I’m a cartoonist and filmmaker based in South Wales.

I wrote and illustrated the comic Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition for Graphic Universe. My new book, Hotelitor, will be available starting May 2024, also from Graphic Universe.

I also make animated work via CPE Productions, a small animation studio I run out of Cardiff. In 2023 we wrapped on Spectre of the Bear — an animated short I directed starring Bill Nighy & Craig Roberts, written by Ioan Morris & produced by Nia Alavezos with funding from Ffilm Cymru and BBC Wales — and are currently touring at film festivals across the UK and beyond. We’re also in the process of trying to develop some comics stuff for TV and film. Outside of animation, CPE also publishes comics, card games and any other art project I fancy doing.

Before all that stuff, I worked at the great Bomper Studio. My time at Bomper saw me co-direct a music video for Foo Fighters, art direct Tony Moore’s video for Tyler Childer’s Country Squire and work on various other fun things.

If you want to chat, get in touch via josh@cpeproductions.co.uk. For enquiries about books and graphic novels and whatnot, I’m represented by Rachel Petty at the Blair Partnership.

The Welsh cartoonist and filmmaker Josh Hicks seconds away from being punched in this face by a professional wrestler, in the historic Cathays Community Centre.