Greg Staples' first job on leaving school was as a trainee draftsman in an architects office in Sheffield.
He also spent time working in a comic and film memorabilia shop and also a computer game store, both also in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Greg spent some time working for the Computer Games Company Gremlin Graphics.
He has also produced work for the games company Wizards of the Coast and drawn numerous comic book characters including Batman and Spider-Man.
Staples did the cover art for Dungeons & Dragons books Races of Faerûn (2003),[2] and Fantastic Locations: Dragondown Grotto (2006).