The pair then created Nikolai Dante, a swashbuckling adventure story set amid dynastic intrigue in a future
Russia, which debuted in 2000 AD in 1997. Fraser was the main artist on the strip, occasionally rotating with other artists, until 2002; the primary artist since then has been
John M. Burns, although Fraser returned to the character in 2006 for the storyline "Sword of the Tsar". Also for 2000 AD, Fraser has drawn a number of Judge Dredd stories.
Returning to the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2003, he collaborated with writer
Rob Williams on Family, a black and white series about a
crime family with superhuman powers, which has recently been published as a collected edition. In 2005 he drew a four-part adaptation of
Richard Matheson's Hell House, scripted by
Ian Edginton and published by
IDW Publishing.
Fraser produced art on The Adventures of Nikolai Dante for 2000 AD, and the self-penned Lilly MacKenzie and the Mines of Charybdis which was published online, a page per week (every Friday) as part of the online comics collective
Act-i-vate.[1]
In 2015, he started drawing covers for the horror comic, Tales of the Night Watchman, published by So What? Press. From 2017 to 2018, he was the primary illustrator for the
Kingsman comic book sequel The Red Diamond for
Image Comics, written by Rob Williams. In 2018, he drew the sequential art for "The Ghost Train", about the elevated train involved in the infamous
Malbone Street Wreck returning to terrorize the city on the centenary of the accident, which kicked off Tales of the Night Watchman's run as a newspaper strip in
Brooklyn,
New York'sPark Slope Reader.[2][3][4][5] The story debuted in the paper's Spring 2018 edition, number 64. The strips were colored by Gary Caldwell, Simon Fraser's frequent collaborator.[6][7][8]
Accolades
In 2018, Fraser received a
Ringo Award nomination for best cover artist for his work on Tales of the Night Watchman, Kingsman, and The Consultant.[9][10]