Pat Mills: First editor of 2000AD and writer - Charley's War, Nemesis the Warlock, ABC Warriors, Slaine, Marshal Law and too many others to mention.
Well, I'd say Enki Bilal is my favourite, because his stuff is such a wonderful evocation of Eastern Europe, it's superb.
In Britain, I'm hard put to say there's anything that is my favourite. I like Viz, obviously.

For my favourite comic ever - the name that comes into my head is a French publication, Conquering Armies. It's beautiful black and white, it's better than in colour. It's the inspiration for Slaine. It's stiff as a board, which is why I like it. I like illustrative artwork.

Then there's Jonah, by Ken Reid. It's about a guy, who, any ship he goes aboard, it sinks. He's got a deathwish. It's incredibly funny. I could wax lyrical about Ken Reid for millions of years. He's just totally brilliant. He did Roger the Doger, Jonah, and Faceache, and he's probably one of the premier British cartoonists. He was coming up with wacky, satirical and surreal humour long before Monty Python.

He did George's Germs, about all these germ characters going around inside the body. The main character has flu, which is Russian influenza, so you've got all these Russian soldiers. So then he takes cough medicine, which is American, so there's all these GIs having a cold war inside his body. That's fantastic!
Everything he did was so far ahead of his time, and hardly anybody's heard of him these days, and to me, he really was a real comic genius.

Alan Grant: Writer - Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Batman, Lobo and many, many more.
My favourite comic right at this very instant is Northern Lights, which is a Glasgow based alternative culture comic. It's not for sale to people under the age of eighteen. The people who work for it don't get paid. They do it because they love comics, they do it because they love creating things, and the energy that's buzzing around that comic is absolutely phenomenal.

I can also read any comic that Alan Moore has written, any comic that Garth Ennis has written, any comic that John Wagner has written. If I come across their stuff, I'll stop and read it.

Best comic ever? I would have to say, Batman Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. It's really unfair to make me pick one comic out of the tens of thousands that I've read, but yes, Batman Year One. It was a very dark and gritty story, but it made sense out of all of the Batman characters and introduced them all for new readers, and it didn't utilise any of the flashiness that came to mark Frank Miller's later scripts. I think it's the best thing he's ever done.

Dez Skinn: Founder and editor of Doctor Who Magazine, Comics International, Warrior and many other publications.
Right now I'm very impressed that the Brits are doing such a good job of rekindling the American industry, seeing as we don't have much of a one of our own. I was very pleased to see the ex-editor of 2000AD Andy Diggle win an award for The Losers, which is a movie waiting to happen. I really enjoy that title.
I enjoy 100 Bullets, which is a publication that prove that comics are not just for kids. There are quite a few imprints out there who are producing things other than spandex. But, having said that, I can still enjoy reading Batman, because it's dark, whereas Superman, I'm afraid, truth justice and the American way, well, that went out with Vietnam.

My favourite comic ever would have to be the one I next create, because I've still got a lot of ideas in me.

Ian Edgington: Writer, Scarlet Traces, The Red Seas, Leviathan
My favourite comic? I've liked Hellboy for a long long time. Then there's an independent thing, Thirty Days and Nights, about a town in Alaska where there's thirty days of darkness and vampires move in. I think it's going to be the next Sam Raimi film after Spider-man II.

Also Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho. It's about a pretty girl, a lima bean, a pig and a duck. It's hysterical. It made tea come out of my nose.

Everybody would probably say The Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen are the best comics ever, but I tend to pick out single issues of things.

There was one issue of The Invisibles by Grant Morrison called Dead Man Fall, the story of a villain's guard, a black-suited henchman, and how he got killed off. It was his entire backstory that ended up with him being killed. How he used to be in the army and had a troubled marriage and his little girl was born mentally handicapped. He was killed in the previous issue in fact.

It was so moving. That's a grand piece of writing. You find a piece of writing and it rings like crystal.

D'Israeli: artist - Scarlet Traces, Judge Dredd, Leviathan
At the moment, a real favourite I'd recommend is either Jack Staff or Kane by Paul Grist. His drawing style is incredibly simple, but his understanding of how to tell a story with comics is absolutely unsurpassed, and he's constantly inventive in the way that he arranges his comics, the way he chooses to tell stories.

I don't even know if it's meaningful to pick a best comic, but because most people are not likely to have ever heard of him, almost anything done since the 1960s by a chap called Alberto Breccia.

He was a very ordinary newspaper artist for the whole of his career, then turned sixty, and something in his brain went ploing. For the following twenty or twenty-five years until he died, he produced this string of incredibly inventive comics. He did Mort Cinder, The Eternaut, Perramus, various adaptations of Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and a hysterical parody of Dracula, which was fantastic.

Andy Diggle: Ex-editor, 2000AD, writer - Lenny Zero, Snow/Tiger, The Losers, Swamp Thing
My favourite comic is probably Gotham Central. Basically it's a really cool cop series, like a police proceedural set in a detective squadroom.

It just happens to be in Gotham City, so the guys they're hunting down are Batvillains rather than bank robbers or what have you. There's almost no superheroics in it, it's just a bunch of guys doing their job. Half the time begrudging the fact that Batman comes and solves the crime.
The best comic ever has to be either The Dark Knight Returns or Batman Year One, both by Frank Miller.

Charlie Adlard: artist - The X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage
My favourite comic at the moment is probably the Fantastic Four. It's a comic that's exactly how it should be. A "does everything it says on the tin" comic.

The writer, Mark Waid, is doing everything in arcs, but there's also a bigger story so there's always something to lead you on even though he's finished an arc. And he's writing the characters as they should be.

Best comics ever? From Hell, Why I Hate Saturn, by Kyle Baker, and Obelix and Co.

Robbie Morrison: Writer - Nikolai Dante, Judge Dredd
Despite being pretty down on superhero comics, I'm reading Supreme Power by J. Michael Stracynski which Marvel are doing, which seems to be quite an interesting take on superheroes, it's good, strong. And I always read 2000AD.

The best comic? I don't know! Er.. Asterix. I still go back to Asterix and Obelix, they're a wonderful double act. And it works for all ages.

When I was a kid I read them, and my dad read them. It had a cross-generational appeal, which a lot of stuff nowadays doesn't have, it's aimed at a very cult little market.

I don't read many comics - it's like that scene in Friends where Rachel meets a gynacolaegist, and he goes, "You're a waitress, right? And you spend all day delivering cups of coffee? Do you ever get those times at home where you think, if I see one more cup of coffee..."

That's probably why I don't read many comics, because I'm drawing them all the time, and I have to analyse them. Sleeper is really good, though, because it's different, and it's very well written.

But in true company man style, the comic I get most excited about is 2000AD.

Jack Lawrence: Writer and artist - Darkham Vale
It's really sad, I haven't changed. It would be one of the Transformers ones from Dreamwave. Just because it's Transformers.

The best ever would be Watchmen I guess. I don't think there's anything that's... NO! Akira. Definitely Akira. I can't believe I nearly let that one go.

Jock: artist - Judge Dredd, Lenny Zero, Tor Cyan

My favourite comic right now is probably 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso. It's great.

The best comic ever is... ooh. I don't know. From Hell? The Dark Knight Returns? Is it Watchmen, is it the Beano? There's been lots of great comics - I can't choose just one.

PJ Holden: artist - Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd
My favourite comic right now? 2000AD. When they give me work!
And what's the best comic ever?

Ooh, it's so easy to say Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns or something like that.

I think the great thing about comics is, the best comic is yet to be created.