1. Liam Sharp went to school at Brackensdale Junior then infants school, before moving to Allestree Lawn Junior school because of his parents' work.
15 Facts About Liam Sharp
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Liam Sharp then went on to win the first Art Scholarship to Eastbourne College, where he stayed until his A Levels.
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Liam Sharp made his debut in the 1980s for the science fiction magazine 2000 AD after a year's apprenticeship with Don Lawrence, artist on the Dutch comic Storm.
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Liam Sharp's works included many Judge Dredd stories, the origin of Finn, ABC Warriors series and one of Tharg's Future Shocks.
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Liam Sharp later moved to Marvel UK, for which he drew the mini-series Death's Head II.
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Liam Sharp has worked on more mature themed books for Verotik, doing GOTH, Jaguar God and Frank Frazetta's "The Death Dealer".
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Liam Sharp briefly worked on a strip originated by Stan Winston called 'Realm of the Claw'.
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Liam Sharp was the complete author of the short story "Winter Rose" in the Vampirella magazine.
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Liam Sharp went on to illustrate the controversial and critically well-received DC Vertigo comic Testament written by Douglas Rushkoff, and the Countdown-related title, Lord Havok and The Extremists with writer Frank Tieri.
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Mam Tor and the advertising agency Mother produced a free sixteen page comic given away with Time Out for which Liam Sharp was the art director, as well as providing the art for a story in the first two issues as well as the cover for the first issue.
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Liam Sharp is involved with a UK Midland-based art movement Beardism, certain elements of which are similar to Dadaism.
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October 2011, Liam Sharp co-founded Madefire with Ben Wolstenholme and Eugene Walden, in Berkeley, CA, and is the company's CCO.
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In 2017 Derby Museum hosted a ten week long retrospective of Liam Sharp's work, spanning his career from 2000ad to Wonder Woman.
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Liam Sharp was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Derby University in 2022.
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Liam Sharp continues to live in Derby, and plays an active part in the community as well as serving on the University Court in an advisory capacity.