Andrew Donkin

Andrew Donkin is a British writer known for his long career in comics and graphic fiction, including work across major franchise properties and original collaborations with prose novelists translating their stories into visual form. In this catalogue he appears as co-writer, alongside Eoin Colfer, of two standalone graphic novels illustrated by Giovanni Rigano: Illegal, which follows a boy's migration journey from West Africa to Europe, and Global, about two teenagers on opposite sides of the world confronting the real effects of climate change. Both books apply a comics format to urgent, real-world subject matter aimed at younger readers, a pairing that suits Donkin's background writing accessible, fast-moving graphic narrative for a broad age range.

Donkin and Rigano previously worked together adapting Colfer's own Artemis Fowl novels into graphic novel form, so Illegal and Global extend an established creative partnership between writer, co-writer and artist rather than a one-off pairing. Readers who enjoy Colfer's prose fiction but want something shorter and visually driven, or who are looking for socially conscious graphic novels for teens, are the natural audience for these two books. As of this catalogue, Donkin's only credits here are these two Colfer collaborations, so this bio is necessarily scoped to that shared body of work rather than his wider bibliography.