Oliver Frey

[4] After spending six months in the Swiss army and dropping out of Berne University, Frey moved back to Britain and started a two-year course at the London Film School, during which he supported himself with freelance work, including illustrating War Picture Library comic books.

These included a comics series featuring a big, muscular bad-boy hero named "Rogue" for HIM Magazine, a monthly gay male pornography publication which he and his partner Roger Kean owned, along with related titles.

Russell T. Davies, writer of the British television series Queer as Folk, praised Frey's serial "The Street"[7] as an important influence on his ground-breaking gay TV drama.

He illustrated the comic strip "Terminal Man", written by Kelvin Gosnell, which was serialised in both CRASH and Zzap!64 in 1984, and published as a complete story in a large format book in 1988.

[12] Several of Frey's painted front covers for Fleetway and IPC War Picture Libraries were reproduced from the original art in two of David Roach's books, Aaargh!

In July and August 2014 his gay erotic work was included in an exhibition at the British Library, where he was interviewed by novelist and reporter Rupert Smith.