Last month, I mailed out to pretty much every British comic creator in my address book, asking them for their 2000AD memories, for a series of ‘mini interviews’ for the downthetubes blog to mark the weekly comic’s 35th birthday this… Read More ›
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Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Simon Wyatt
Name: Simon Wyatt Blog or web site: Strangely Drawn: http://simonwyatt.blogspot.com Currently working on: Alpha Gods with Ian Sharman for Orang Utan Comics, Phantom Lung & The Garden of Dead Liars with Cy Dethan and Volume 2 of my graphic novel… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Mike Perkins
Name: Mike Perkins Blog or web site: www.mikeperkinsart.com and http://perkyposts.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: I’ve recently finished up illustrating Marvel’s 31-issue adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand and am now wonderfully embroiled in an open-ended run on Astonishing X-Men, collaborating with… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from artist and fan Neill Cameron
Name: Neill Cameron Web site: www.neillcameron.com Blog: neillcameron.blogspot.com Currently working on: Currently drawing The Pirates of Pangaea and writing and drawing How To Make (Awesome) Comics for fantastic new weekly kids’ comic The Phoenix! (www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk) First memory of 2000AD? My… Read More ›
Leah Moore and John Reppion go Scouting!
Writing couple Leah Moore and John Reppion are to make their debut for the publishers of legendary British comic 2000AD. Leah’s father, the writer Alan Moore, first got his break in the pages of 2000AD in 1980 and went on… Read More ›
Alski’s baby celebrates 35 years of 2000AD
Journalist, musician and 2000AD forum member Alski – who has created many a 2000AD inspired song or video in the past – wrote this song to celebrate the 35th anniversary of 2000AD this week, “the best anthology comic in… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Al Ewing
Al Ewing Blog or web site: I’m on Twitter! @Al_Ewing Currently working on: Currently writing The Zaucer Of Zilk for 2000AD and Jennifer Blood and Ninjettes for Dynamite Entertainment. More 2000AD work is on the way, some of which I… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from artist and fan Paul Harrison-Davies
Name: Paul Harrison-Davies Blog: paulhd.blogspot.com Tumblr: http://pmhd.tumblr.com/ Currently working on: A book cover. A pitch for a children’s comic. Short strip in Ink+Paper and any other odds and ends that take’s my fancy. First memory of 2000AD? A friend bringing… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Jonathan Edwards
Name: Jonathan Edwards Blog or web site: www.jonathan-e.com and http://jonathan-e.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: My vinyl figure Inspector Cumulus is being released in its second colour way over the summer and I’m currently working on ideas for a graphic novel featuring… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from art droid Ade Salmon
Name: Ade Salmon Blog or web site: http://adriansalmonart.blogspot.com Currently working on: A Baron Frankenstein back up strip for Monsterverse’ Flesh @ Blood book 2, 3 and 4, plus monthly Time Team art for Doctor Who Magazine. Open to offers. First… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer and fan Stephen Walsh
Name: Stephen Walsh Currently working on: WarWorldz for Strip Magazine with John Freeman and the artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo. Also working on scripts for Commando (“The Flaming Dagger” is out now) and further adventures of Charlotte Corday with Keith Page (“The… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer and fan Paul H. Birch
Name: Paul H Birch Blog: http://blogs.birminghammail.net/speechballoon/ Currently working on: Hardware. Once upon a time there was a little stripzine that caused quite a stir and that will be coming back, bigger and way badder than ever before. How so? Well,… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from artist Rob Davis
Name: Rob Davis Blog: http://dinlos.blogspot.com Currently working on: Writing and drawing second Volume of Don Quixote and working on strips for The Phoenix. First memory of 2000AD? I bought prog 1 of 2000AD from the newsagents on Ashley Road in… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Paul Cornell
IGN describes this scene from Flesh (one of Paul’s favourite strips) as one of 2000AD’s “Top Shocks”. Read their list Name: Paul CornellBlog or web site:www.paulcornell.com Currently working on: Cops and Monsters, my urban fantasy novel, out from Tor in October…. Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From author and fan James Swallow
Name: James Swallow Blog or web site: I blog about writing and stuff over at http://jmswallow.livejournal.com/ and http://twitter.com/jmswallow. Currently working on: A whole bunch of stuff! I’ve got a new novel called Fear To Tread out later this year as… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Nigel Dobbyn
Name: Nigel Dobbyn Blog or web site: www.nigeldobbyn.com Currently working on: The Power of Five: Nightrise graphic novel for Walker Books, The Chili for Markosia (www.the-chili.com), due to be published in February and available at the London Super Comicon. First… Read More ›
2000AD Celebrates 35 Years of Thrillpower!
In 1977, something amazing happened. All across the land the first issue of 2000AD, dated 26th February, arrived in British newsagents. And your world has never been the same since. 35 years on and The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic is still… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from art droid Graeme Neil Reid
Name: Graeme Neil Reid Web site: www.gnreid.co.uk/ Blog: http://www.gnreid.blogspot.com Group Blog: http://scotchcorner.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: Illustrations for a museum, some fantasy role playing stuff and a few other projects which I can’t mention (no major secrets just client confidentiality). First… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Mo Ali
Name: Mo Ali Blog or web site: http://moknowchrome.blogspot.com Currently working on: Collaborating on a couple of comicbook projects, one with artist Andy Bloor and another with Brad Tuttle. More updates as and when on my blog! First memory of 2000AD?… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Steve Yeowell
Steve’s Red Seas art for a 2000AD cover. More aboutthis cover on 2000AD Covers Uncovered Name: Steve Yeowell Currently working on: Cadet Anderson, and the final series of The Red Seas. First memory of 2000AD? Prog 1. Lost the free… Read More ›