Michael Dalton "Mike" Allred (born 1962) is an American comic book artist and writer.

[4] Allred's mother, RaeBell Jenkins (née Bird; July 19, 1934 – February 17, 2014), was born in Bluebell, Utah.

[5] In 1973, Allred's parents divorced, and he stayed with his father in Eugene, Oregon, while his brothers and mother moved to Utah.

[6] In 1980, he attended Ricks College as an art major but switched to broadcasting fearing that he couldn't make a living as an artist.

The story loosely followed his stint in radio as a sidebar to the true focus of the novel, the effects of post-nuclear war over a small Oregon town.

He followed this up with his similarly titled works Graphique Musique (1990) and Grafik Muzik (Caliber Comics 1990–1991), in which he set out the style that he was to become known for with his most famous character, Madman.

[8] Allred drew part of the 1993 "Worlds' End" story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series.

[8] Allred himself gained further mainstream attention with the science-fiction/rock-and-roll comic Red Rocket 7[9] (Dark Horse, 1997) and his art for writer Peter Milligan's series X-Force, which he began drawing in July 2001,[13] and subsequently became X-Statix.