Rian Hughes is a
British graphic designer, illustrator and
comics artist, noted for his work on
2000AD, where he illustrated
Robo-Hunter,
Tales from Beyond Science,
Really and Truly and
Dan Dare, among others. His work was highly distinctive, wearing its design influences on its sleeve, daring to be two-dimensional and bold in its use of large expanses of flat, bold colours. This stood out particularly during the early 1990s, when British comics were leaning ever more towards fully painted art. Unusually, Hughes preferred to be his own
letterer, and designed several unusual
fonts for this purpose.