Bryan Hitch

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Bryan Hitch (born 1970) is a British comic book artist. He is the co-creator and artist of The Authority; he currently works on Marvel's The Ultimates. His long list of credits include The Sensational She-Hulk, X-Men, Superman and Stormwatch and, for Marvel UK, Action Force, Doctor Who (1988), Mys-Tech Wars and Death's Head.

Hitch's art, which closely resembled that of Alan Davis early in his career, is characterized by high level of detail, use of "widescreen" panels on projects like The Authority, and emotive facial close-ups. Hitch is also known for is slow pace of work. His run on JLA was broken up by fill-in artists; he drew every issue of The Ultimates, but with pauses between issues. He completed 24 issues of the series in roughly 5 years, far below the average for most artists in the industry, although there was a several month gap between the first and second volumes of the series. This lateness has been explained by co-worker Brian Michael Bendis as a result of Hitch's busy homelife, including the birth of his first child, William.^{[citation needed]}

Hitch was a character design artist for Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2 animated films. He also was a character design artist for the video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. He was brought aboard the project due to his definitive rendition of the Hulk in The Ultimates. He was also hired by the BBC as the concept artist for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series, having particular input into the design of the TARDIS interior set. He has also provided artwork that served as the cover of Empire, a British movie magazine doing a featured article on comic book movies.