Wil Shrike is a mixed media artist and illustrator based in Poole, UK, whose dark, intensely detailed character work has built a following of more than 450,000 on Instagram. Drawing since he could hold a pencil, Wil gravitates to monsters, film characters and the darker corners of life, channelling themes like mental health, conflict and crime into art that feels both haunting and deeply personal. He also runs his own clothing label, Evyl Apparel.

His variant cover credits span some of the most collected titles on the stands: Something Is Killing the Children and BRZRKR: Bleeding Tide for BOOM! Studios, Battle Beast, Witchblade, Exquisite Corpses, Transformers and Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives for Image Comics, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT x Godzilla for IDW Publishing, alongside a steady stream of hand-drawn sketch covers for collectors.

Wil brings that cinematic intensity to NiFe WARS with a ConnexArt retailer exclusive variant cover for Issue #3, created in partnership with Countdown Comics.