Just because it was Valentine’s Day this week, Commando hasn’t gone all lovey-dovey. Oh no! Four More action-packed tales are now on sale in all good newsagents for adventure fans… Commando No 4471: The Flaming DaggerStory: Stephen Walsh Art: Keith… Read More ›
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Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From lettering droid Jim Campbell
Name: Jim Campbell Blog: www.jimcampbell-lettering.co.uk Currently working on: Yikes. Lettering loads of stuff. Hook Jaw, Black Dragon and Black Ops Extreme for Strip; Hoax Hunters for Image; just finished Sweeney Todd for Classical Comics and should be starting The Importance… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Paul O’Connell
Name: Paul O’Connell Blog or web site: www.soundofdrowning.com Currently working on: Artwork for Future of the Left and stories for The Sound of Drowning Issue 15. First memory of 2000AD? I read 2000AD every week from the very first issue when… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Kev F Sutherland
Name: Kev F Sutherland Blog or web site: comicfestival.co.uk Currently working on: Self-published comics Captain Clevedon and Hot Rod Cow, with the book of my classic Tales Of Nambygate and Phallas strips from Gas and Brain Damage comics now all… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer-artist and fan Paul Eldridge
Name: Paul Eldridge Blog or web site: http://kerchow.webs.com(I don’t blog, it brings me out in a rash…) Currently working on: Numerous personal projects in production. After completing the Rubbernorc ebook I keep thinking of printing hard copies and of course pulling… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Martin Geraghty
Name: Martin Geraghty Blog or web site: Yeah, need to get onto that someday, probably… Currently working on: Knee-deep pencilling my next strip for Doctor Who Magazine, a tight little Eleventh Doctor two-parter by Scott Gray. Other than that, Storyboarding… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer, editor and fan Richmond Clements
Name: Richmond Clements Blog: http://thequaequamblog.blogspot.com Hi-ExConvention: www.hi-ex.co.uk Currently working on: Turning Tiger has just been released by Renegade Arts Entertainment.I’m also working on a couple of books for Markosia and one for Com.X. I have a series called Operation Inferno,… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Smuzz
An unpublished panel from the ‘tryout’ strip Smuzz did for ABC Warriors Name: Smuzz (‘Sms’ is soooo Last Millenium) Website: www.smuzz.org.uk Currently working on: Crucible with comics Guru John Freeman and coloured by Kris Carter. To be published in the new… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Boo Cook
Name: Boo Cook Blog: www.boocook.blogspot.com Tumblr: http://boocook.tumblr.com Tumblr: http://cro-magnonbulletin.tumblr.com Currently working on: I’m currently working on a new five-part Judge Anderson, Psi strip called ‘Stone Voices’ with Alan Grant. That should be surfacing in the Judge Dredd Megazine in the… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Paul Rainey
The cover of Prog 377 featuring JudgeDredd and Mean Angel by Ron Smith Name: Paul Rainey Blog or web site: www.pbrainey.com Currently working on: Thunder Brother: Soap Division, the first two stories of which can be read for free online… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer and fan Cy Dethan
Name: Cy Dethan Website: www.cydethan.com Blog: www.raggedman.com Currently working on: Right now I’ve got enough projects in the works to knock a buzzard off a gut-wagon. Among those currently scheduled for 2012 are White Knuckle (Art: Valia Kapadai, Letters: Nic… Read More ›
The Really Heavy Greatcoat returns (sort of)
The Really Heavy Greactcoat is a long-running cartoon strip which ace artist Nick Miller and I created years ago and, just occasionally, Nick (who’s constantly busy on numerous projects) teases me with a new and topical episode. • View… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Alwyn Talbot
Alwyn Talbot sent this brilliant Nemesis the Warlock art to mark 2000AD‘s 35th birthday. Currently working as a comic artist and illustrator, Alwyn received his apprenticeship in underground comics. His credits include DC Comics, 2000AD, Acclaim and Rebellion. He’s exhibited… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid John Higgins
Name: John Higgins Blog or web site: www.turmoilcolour.com Currently working on: My on going project is Razorjack, created originally in 1999 and self publishing the first issue. Subsequently went with Com.x for a further two comic books culminating in the collected… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Keith Page
Name: Keith Page Blog or web site: http://keithpageukcomicsartist.blogspot.com Currently working on: I’m currently working on Grey Dog, the first of three 48-pagers about the Irish mythological hero Cuchulain, written by Stephen Walsh, as well as my usual Commandos. First memory of… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Gibson Quarter
Name: Gibson Quarter Blog: gibsonquarter27art.blogspot.com Twitter: @gibsonquarter DeviantArt: gibsonquarter27.deviantart.com/ Currently working on: The Organ Grinder for issue #3 of Undertow by 7th wave comics. It’s a great story set in the wild west about a cursed organ, a one… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from art droid Patrick Brown
Nemesis the Warlockby Patrick Brown Name: Patrick Brown Blog or web site: http://paddybrown.co.uk Currently working on: The Cattle Raid of Cooley, an adaptation of the ancient Irish epic starring Cú Chulainn, the hero Sláine was partially based on. It’s been… Read More ›
Ripping Yarns hops to DVD marked by world record attempt
Any British lad of a certain age will remember Ripping Yarns, the TV show that poked fun at the kind of tales of derring-do published in countless boys’ comics and annuals down the years. Created by members of the Monty… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Richard Elson
Name: Richard Elson Blog or web site: n/a Currently working on: Journey Into Mystery and my own stuff. First memory of 2000AD? The first issue of 2000AD that I actually bought was prog 549. I had seen it around from… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Steve White
The origin of the infamous One Eye, in 2000AD Prog 3The origin is retold on Everything Comes Back to 2000AD here Name: Steve White Blog or web site: http://steve-white-thunderlizard.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: Senior comics editor, Titan Comics First memory of… Read More ›