Darick W. Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator on series he co-created, notably Transmetropolitan (1997–2002) and The Boys (2006–2012; 2020).

[2] Darick Robertson cites Paul Smith, George Pérez, José Luis García-López, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Bernie Wrightson as early formative influences on his craft, and states it was Brian Bolland's work on Camelot 3000 that defined for him what a comic artist could aspire to.

Many small-press black and white books featuring anthropomorphic heroes were seeing sudden critical and commercial success in the wake of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Robertson's father carried a worn copy of Space Beaver #1 folded into his coat pocket to show his friends what his son had created.

[7] In 2000 Larry Young acquired permission to publishSpace Beaver and AiT/Planet Lar released two trades collecting the entire run.

[8] After Robertson launched his career with Space Beaver, he began to regularly attend comic conventions seeking advice and professional connections.

As a result, by age 21,[9] Robertson landed his first work for a major publisher illustrating Justice League Quarterly #4 at DC Comics.

While working on a short run of Malibu's Ultraforce, Kanalz paired Robertson with emerging British comic writer Warren Ellis.

Robertson's immediate response to Ellis’ pitch was to tell the British writer "that sounds great, I told you I'd want to work with you anytime you could."

The future collaborators began to brainstorm on finer points of the new work, including arriving at the new name for the books lead.

Helix editor Stuart Moore had worried the original name of Caleb Newcastle was "too British", so the collaborators settled on Spider Jerusalem.

Yet after a number of concept sketches and taking a firm stand, and submitting the first four pages of pencils for the first issue, Robertson was confirmed as the book's artist.

[16][19] Robertson called working on Transmetropolitan a rewarding experience, citing the critical acclaim, continued popularity of the characters[20] and unique fandom.

Alongside writer Garth Ennis, who Robertson had met through Warren Ellis, Robertson worked on Fury, a hard-edged modern take on the seminal Marvel comics spy character Nick Fury[2] which Rolling Stone hailed as "cool comic of the year".

Robertson, a fan of Wolverine since discovering the character at age 12, accepted the offer, citing a desire to work on the high-profile X-Man for a long time.

Robertson states the Marvel request made him unhappy, but it was a company-wide choice and did not require his work to mimic the appearance of the actor exactly.

Robertson, who had once dressed as the teleporting X-Man for Halloween, said at the time, "I never imagined I'd be so lucky as to move onto a Nightcrawler series on the heels of Wolverine, so in some ways it's still a childhood dream manifesting.

Ennis had the project in mind for a number of years, and The Boys would permit Darick extensive creative control with the opportunity to produce an original work where he could design the characters, create the covers, and continue inking his own material.

Robertson stated "it became obvious that DC was not the right home for The Boys,"[27] though he thanked Scott Dunbier and Ben Abernathy at Wildstorm for their support.

The story centered around a beat down New York Detective turned hitman, Nick Sax, who awakes from a heart attack to a conversation with a perpetually upbeat "Unipixisus" (as named by Robertson's son),[39] who calls himself "Happy The Horse" and takes the shape of a little blue flying donkey with a Unicorn horn.

It's an unusual buddy story and caught the attention of The RZA and Producer Reginald Hudlin who have expressed their desire to adapt the comic into a film.

[40] Harry Knowles' "Ain't It Cool News" announced Darick Robertson as one of their BEST ARTIST picks for their 9th Annual AICN COMICS @$$IE AWARDS,[41] citing his work on HAPPY!.

In 2013 Robertson launched the 5-issue series Ballistic, "a psychedelic, transreal, hard sci-fi adventure"[42] with co-creator and writer Adam Egypt Mortimer,[43] from Black Mask Studios.

[48] On September 9, 2020, Grasshopper Manufacture's official Twitter page confirmed that Robertson would contribute to No More Heroes III's promotional material by providing several illustrations and designed the game's cover art.

In 2021, Darick Robertson drew the series Space Bastards written by Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey with additional art by Simon Bisley.