Nick Abadzis Interview

By John Freeman on 4 September 2007

A quick plug for a brilliant interview with Hugo Tate creator and long-time-ago Marvel UK co-worker Nick Abadzis over on the Comics Reporter site.

Nick talks about one of his latest projects, Laika, one of the first books announced for the First Second line. “Signing Abadzis to a book-length, full-color project did as much as anything in staking out that publisher’s unique artistic niche,” writes Tom Spurgeon. “The story of the world’s first space traveler, a dog sent up in the Soviet space program, Laika is a curious and engaging mix of moods, approaches, formal strategies, soap opera, psychological profiling and history.”

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.