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Since 2003, McKelvie has collaborated with journalist Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author. Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics. He is perhaps best known for his creator-owned comic Phonogram, created with artist Jamie...

 on a comic strip for the official Playstation Magazine UK
Playstation Magazine
Playstation magazine may refer to:*PlayStation: The Official Magazine, an American video game magazine, originally known as PlayStation Magazine *PlayStation Magazine, an Italian video game magazine...

, entitled Save Point. He has worked on a number of projects for Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, including the six-issue series Phonogram
Phonogram (comics)
Phonogram is a comic book written by the noted games journalist Kieron Gillen and drawn by Jamie McKelvie. It is published by Image Comics.-Publication history:As of January 2010, two mini-series have been completed....

. His next major work was with colorist
Colorist
In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates...

 Guy Major and Matthew Wilson on his creator-owned series Suburban Glamour, and in advance of the first issue, Jamie was dubbed "one of the major new talents of the decade" by Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...

.

He has done art and covers for several comics, including X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...

 and Hack/Slash
HACK/slash
Hack/Slash is an ongoing comic books series, launched from several one shots of the same name, published by Image Comics ....

. His current major work is a sequel to Phonogram, called Phonogram - Singles Club, being published over 2008-2010. In February and March 2009, he drew issues 11 and 12 of Cable
Cable (comics)
Cable is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as an infant in Uncanny X-Men #201...

 for Marvel and 5 pages for Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead? for DC.

McKelvie's artwork also graces the covers of the album Brilliant! Tragic!
Brilliant! Tragic!
Brilliant! Tragic! is the fourth studio album by Art Brut, released on 23 May 2011. The first single from the album will be "Lost Weekend". The album was recorded in Salem, Oregon and is the second to be produced by Frank Black, best known as the frontman of Pixies...

 and single "Lost Weekend" by Art Brut
Art Brut (band)
Art Brut are a Berlin-based English and German indie rock band. Their debut album, Bang Bang Rock & Roll, was released on 30 May 2005, with its follow up, It's a Bit Complicated, released on 25 June 2007...

.

Comics

Interior comics
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 work includes:
  • "Loss" (with writer Amber Benson
    Amber Benson
    Amber Nicole Benson is an American actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but has also directed, produced and starred in her own films Chance and Lovers, Liars & Lunatics...

    , in Four Letter Worlds
    Four Letter Worlds
    Four Letter Worlds is a comics anthology published by Image Comics in 2005 that tells 16 stories revolving around four lettered words: Love, Hate, Fear, and Fate....

    , 144 pages, Image Comics
    Image Comics
    Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

    , April 2005, ISBN 1-582404-39-9)
  • Long Hot Summer (with Eric Stephenson, graphic novel
    Graphic novel
    A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

    , 96 pages, Image Comics, September 2005, ISBN 1-582405-59-X)
  • Phonogram
    Phonogram (comics)
    Phonogram is a comic book written by the noted games journalist Kieron Gillen and drawn by Jamie McKelvie. It is published by Image Comics.-Publication history:As of January 2010, two mini-series have been completed....

     (with Kieron Gillen
    Kieron Gillen
    Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author. Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics. He is perhaps best known for his creator-owned comic Phonogram, created with artist Jamie...

    , 6-issue limited series
    Limited series
    A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....

    , Image Comics, 2006
    2006 in comics
    -January:*January 1, 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2, 2006: The Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...

    , tpb
    Trade paperback (comics)
    In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...

    , 144 pages, Image, June 2007, ISBN 1-582406-94-4)
  • Suburban Glamour (script and art, 4-issue mini-series, Image Comics, October 2007
    2007 in comics
    -January:*January 10: Superman & Batman vs. Aliens & Predator released.*January 24: The Boys is canceled with issue #6.-February:*February 2: Newsarama reports that The Boys has been picked up by Dynamite Entertainment....

    . tpb, 104 pages, Image, April 2008, ISBN 1-582408-78-5)
  • "Migas" (with writer Matt Fraction
    Matt Fraction
    Matt Fritchman, better known by the pen name Matt Fraction, is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer, known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist and Uncanny X-Men for Marvel Comics and Casanova for Image Comics.-Career:Fraction wrote two...

    , Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler (comics)
    Nightcrawler is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe. He has been associated with both the X-Men and Excalibur, originally appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he debuted in Giant-Size X-Men #1...

     story in X-Men: Divided We Stand
    X-Men: Divided We Stand
    "X-Men: Divided We Stand" is a 2008 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics as a follow-up storyline to the "Messiah Complex" story arc. The story started with the issues of the X-Men-related titles cover dated April 2008. This included: The Uncanny X-Men; Wolverine vol. 3; X-Factor vol. 3;...

     #1, comics anthology
    Comics anthology
    Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...

    , Marvel Comics
    Marvel Comics
    Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

    , June 2008)
  • Phonogram 2 (with Kieron Gillen, 7-issue limited series, Image Comics, 2008
    2008 in comics
    -January:*January 9: Teen Titans: The Lost Annual, delayed since 2003, is published.*January 23: Hellblazer #240, marking the 20th anniversary of the series, is released.-February:...

    )
  • Cable
    Cable (comics)
    Cable is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as an infant in Uncanny X-Men #201...

  • Invincible Iron Man (back up stories by Matt Fraction in issues 32 and 33)
  • Generation Hope (issues 5 and 9, with writer Kieron Gillen)

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