BIOGRAPHY:

"Paul Grist, with both Kane and Jack Staff, is making well-crafted pulpy entertainment, the kind of stuff comics used to be known for. At the same time he is also doing some of the best and most subtle graphic design in any field."
The Comics Journal #244

"Cartooning was always my goal, my ambition. It was either that or be a policeman. I think drawing comics about the police is a good compromise... Hill Street Blues is the definitive TV police program. Great ensemble acting; every character has something worthwhile about them. That's very much the approach that I'm taking with Kane... Frank Miller's early Daredevil work was very inspiring. It was such an exciting series. It was very inventive and played with readers in quite a mean way with some real killer endings to the individual issues."
Paul Grist, from the Comicology interview

Interviews:
Newsarama (2002)
Newsarama: Phil Elliot (2002)
Comicology #2 (2000)

Resources:
Paul Grist: Comic Index
Paul Grist: Image Message Board
Jack Staff: Preview
Paul Grist at 2000AD

Reviews:
The Comics Reporter: Jack Staff #8
iComics: Jack Staff #1-2 (Image)
iComics: Jack Staff #1-4 (Dancing Elephant)
The Fourth Rail: Burgalr Bill #1
iComics: Kane Vol 3 - Histories
Pop Image: St Swithin's Day

Kane
Image, 1993-ongoing
Detective Kane returns to active duty with the New Eden Police Department following a six month suspension in the wake of shooting and killing his partner, Dennis Harvey. His fellow police officers give Kane a welcome back gift... a couple of bullets with his name on them.

"Wonderful. Kane's wonderful."
David Lloyd, co-creator of V For Vendetta

"... I must write Huzzahs to you for a job damn well done! You write/design/tell a graphic story very well indeed... like TV's NYPD Blue once removed."
Alex Toth

"I am forever impressed with your sense of pacing and composition... The way you employ fairly rigid panel structures yet make the page seem so free and alive never fails to blow me away."
James Robinson

Jack Staff
Image, 2000-ongoing
"Jack Staff is a delight, stuffed with more wonderful concepts than any reader has a right to expect - Becky Burdock, Vampire Reporter! Tom Tom the Robot Man! Charlie Raven, the greatest escapologist of the Victorian Age! These stories are written with an inventive wit and zest for adventure, and Grist's evocative, clear-line art would do Alex Toth proud. Stories jump backward and forward in time, and from place to place, with an almost reckless abandon; yet Grist's skillful compositions and sure storytelling never leave the reader behind. Best of all, these are comics you could give to a child without feeling uneasy, yet clever and imaginative enough to entertain an adult."
The Comics Journal #259

Burglar Bill
Dancing Elephant Press, 2003-2004
A cops and robbers comedy adventure story finally appears in print, despite being written and drawn in the early 1990's.

"... as I remember it, the main inspiration behind this one was my mum saying my dad looked like Burglar Bill after a particularly severe haircut and getting some new glasses with a thick rim which looked like a black mask."
Paul Grist

St. Swithin's Day
Oni Press, 1990
In a short story written by Grant Morrison, a disillusioned teenager is planning to kill Margaret Thatcher.

"I've been in awe of your work eve since Grant Morrison showed me a copy of St Swithin's Day... It is one of my favourite comics (one that I've read over and over and over, so it is very worn and weathered!)."
Jill Thompson, creator of Scary Godmother

Kane:
1: New Eden
2: Rabbit Hunt
3: Histories
4: Thirty Ninth
5: The Untouchable Rico Costas & Other Short Stories
6: Partners

Jack Staff:
1: Everything Used to Be Black & White
2: Soldiers
3: Echoes Of Tomorrow

Other Books:
Grendel Tales: Devil In Our Midst (1998)

Periodicals:
Jack Staff Vol 2 #1-on going (2003- )
Burglar Bill #1-6 (2003-2005)
Absent Friends #1 (2002) with Phil Elliot
Jack Staff Vol 1 #1-12 (2000-2003)
The Daily Bugle #1-3 (1996) with Karl Kerschl & Phil Depages
Burglar Bill: Summer Fun Special (1996)
Grendel Tales: Devil In Our Midst #1-5 (1994)
Kane #1-31 (1993-2001)
Insiders in Crisis #54-59 (1991) with Mark Millar
St Swithins Day (1990) with Grant Morrison
Lucifer #1-3 (1989-1990) with Eddie Campbell & Phill Elliot

Short Stories in:
The Amazing Adventures Of The Escapist #5 (2005)
Bizarro World (2005) with Eddie Campbell & Hunt Emerson
Batman: Gotham Knights #23 (2002) with Darwyn Cooke
The Menace Of Spider-Man #1 (2001)
Justice League Of Arkham (2001)
Harley Quinn - Our Worlds At War (2001)
Adventures Of Superman Annual #9 (1997)
Judge Dredd Mega Special (1993)