Here he created two of his best-known characters, Hugo Tate, a stick-man lost in a figuratively drawn world, and the shapeshifting Mr. Pleebus, who later starred in his own series of children's books.

[6] As a part of the British Invasion of American comics, he wrote Children of the Voyager for Marvel in 1993 and Millennium Fever in 1995 for Vertigo.

[citation needed] His graphic novel, Laika, about the eponymous dog, the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit, was published in 2007.

His characters — including the dog – are as real as the story he's telling: animated with complex personalities, flaws, humor and emotion.

[citation needed] Abadzis also worked as a newspaper cartoonist on The Sunday Correspondent (now defunct), and as a freelance illustrator and comics writer and as a development and consultant editor on a range of best-selling children's magazines for various British publishers.