Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo "Hellblazer", and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating (with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield) the entire 16-issue run of "Kid Eternity" (1993–4). He drew the covers for twenty-three of the twenty-five issues of the first "The Invisibles" series and also returned to "Hellblazer" (switching from artwork and covers to just covers after around 20 issues) between 1995 and 1998. He drew three issues of "Shade, the Changing Man" (1994), the one-shot "Hell Eternal" (1995) and the miniseries "The Minx" as well as inking most of Michael Lark's work on "Scene of the Crime". He penciled four issues of the final "Invisibles" series between 1999 and 2000, produced covers for the "Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood" miniseries, and shared art chores with John Bolton on the 2001 miniseries "User".