08/31/2026
Chuffed to have a Vince Locke 3"×3" BAKER STREET piece in the ninesquareinches.com collection!
Vince Locke is a comic-book artist and illustrator born in 1966 in Michigan. He began his professional career as the illustrator of the independent zombie-horror series Deadworld for Arrow Comics, a title that developed a dedicated cult following and later continued at Caliber Comics.
During his years at Caliber, Locke contributed to Baker Street (which is where I was first introduced to his work), the ten-issue alternate-history series created by Gary Reed and Guy Davis. Set in a late-twentieth-century world that retained Victorian social structures and never experienced the Second World War, the story follows a group of punks (with a Sherlock Holmes vibe) investigating Ripper-style murders. Locke served as an inker, a letterer, and the painter of several of the series’ distinctive covers.
Locke’s subsequent credits include Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, the graphic novel A History of Violence (adapted into the 2005 David Cronenberg film), American Freak, The Unwritten, and stories for 2000 AD. He is equally recognized for his album covers by the death-metal band Cannibal Co**se, as well as illustrations for role-playing games (White Wolf, TSR, Wizards of the Coast) and horror-themed fine art. In 2005 he received the Haxtur Award for Best Long Comic Strip for A History of Violence.
Recently, Vince contributed to DC’s Swamp Thing 1989, inking Michael Zulli’s original pencils on Rick Veitch’s long-unpublished 1989 story, now released as a Black Label miniseries.
