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Mike Hubbard, born in Dublin in 1904, attended art school in London before joining Dean's Studios as an illustrator. By the 1930s he was working on story papers The Thriller, Detective Weekly, Modern Wonder and The Passing Show, drawing black and white interior illustrations and two-colour covers.

After the Second World War, he moved into comics, drawing adventure strips, mostly film adaptations and classic serials, for Knockout. In 1946 he became assistant to Norman Pett on the Daily Mirror's daily cheesecake strip Jane, drawing backgrounds and supporting characters. He took over from Pett as the strip's artist in 1948, and drew it until it finished in 1959.

In the 1960s he worked on Fleetway's girls' titles, drawing "Nurse Angela" in Princess, and various stories in Schoolgirl's Picture Library. Perhaps his best-remembered strip from the girl's comics was "Jane Bond, Secret Agent", in Tina and Princess Tina, in 1967-70.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, he painted full-colour classic serials for The Ranger, Look and Learn and Pixie, including adaptations of King Solomon's Mines, The Coral Island and The Secret Garden. His last published work was a set of new illustrations for reprinted stories in The Bumper Story Book for Boys and The Bumper Book for Girls in 1974-5. He was an excellent draughtsman and excelled at the figure, particularly the female figure, and his colour work was both vivid and sensitive. He died in 1976.

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