Patrick Warren graduated with a degree in animation from the University of Westminster. He was a winner of Tokyopop’s first UK Rising Stars of Manga competition in 2006. His interest in Japan began when he was eight and he had started doodling manga by the time he was 15. Patrick’s influences include manga artists such as Hiroaki Samura, Tite Kubo, Oh! Great and Western artists such as Frank Miller and his own father. Henry VIII is Patrick’s second full-length manga.