Pugh's earliest work included penciling John Ostrander's Youngblood, telling the story of his futuristic sword and sorcery character Grimjack's childhood and early adulthood, as well as providing covers for the Grimjack Case Files limited series.
Pugh returned to Animal Man starting with issue 7, replacing Travel Foreman and working with Jeff Lemire.
He drew a 12 issue run on The Flintstones, which was nominated for 2 Eisner awards, and written by Mark Russell with whom he also made Billionaire Island.
Recent work includes writing and drawing Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, a story based on concepts developed by Warren Ellis.
It was originally planned to appear in Atomeka Press's Blast and then in 2005 their Bojeffries Terror Tomes #1[1][2][3] before finally being published by Radical Comics.