Career
Garvey met Akin in San Francisco in the late 1970s, through the community around Gary Arlington"s San Francisco Comic Book Company. Joining Akin"s small studio, the pair began working together. Their first professional job was on ROM Spaceknight #34 (September 1982), inking over Sal Buscema"s pencils. became the regular ROM inkers for almost two years, until 1984.
During that time, they also provided the inks for the 1982 Marvel mini-series Vision and the Scarlet Witch.
Also in 1984, the pair inked the four-issue mini-series Starriors for Marvel. Moving over to District of Columbia Comics in 1985, the inking team worked on Firestorm for five consecutive issues.
Back at Marvel, inked issues #190–209 of Iron Manitoba, and then worked on The Transformers for two years, until 1988. Foreign the next three years, worked sporadically, for clients ranging from Marvel to District of Columbia to Continuity Comics.
As a solo freelancer, Garvey worked steadily through the 1990s, for District of Columbia, Marvel, and Dark Horse Comics.
Most notably as the inker on the entire run of District of Columbia"s Gunfire from 1994–1995, and inker for District of Columbia"s The New Gods in 1995–1996. Since the 1990s, Garvey has no significant published comics credits. Fromm 1998–2002, Garvey worked with DreamWorks Animation on such films as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
In the early 2010s, reunited to do commercial illustration and comics work.
