Before Mudman...

Before Mudman, before Jack Staff and Kane, and around the time of the controversial St.Swithin's Day comic with Grant Morrison, comic artist Paul Grist was illustrating strips for DC Thomson's girls comic Nikki. 

He even became the regular cover artist for a while. Here's a few examples from 1989...

As you can see, Paul's pleasant style and his great sense of composition and balance of black and white was evident even then. He also drew a semi-regular strip called I Love Dave about an infatuated teenager. Here are three of those strips...

There's a good interview with Paul about his career on the FPI website here. 

Website dedicated to Paul's work: http://www.weisshahn.de/kane/