Winslade was born in
Surrey in 1965 and spent a lot of time indoors as a child because of a
heart murmur. His main source of entertainment were
Marvel Comics such as
Howard the Duck and
Deathlok. After he attended
Birmingham Polytechnic, to study art, he had the idea of working in the comics industry. Here he met
Steve Pugh who was already active in comic art. He produced commercial artwork after college before showing his portfolio to
Garth Ennis at a comic convention in Coventry, where he got the job drawing
Goddess. Before that project started he worked on
Crisis and
Revolver as well as inking
Steve Dillon's work on
Car Warriors for
Epic. During this period he also worked on
Elaine Lee's
Skin Tight Orbit and was pencilled in as the artist for
The Red Seas, with writer
Ian Edginton, when it was going to be run by
Epic, but he was too busy with
Goddess. Since then he has worked for
Marvel,
DC and
2000 AD. ==Awards==