Rebellion has announced that the official 2000AD Instagram account was hacked last week and all posts, ten years of work, were deleted.
“After working tirelessly to regain access, we have just been informed that the account that we’ve been working on for a close to a decade has been permanently lost,” say the Rebellion Team in a statement.
“We are therefore asking you, the incredible 2000AD community, to come together and spread the word about our brand new Instagram account at instagram.com/2000ADcomic.
“In return, we promise to reward you all with just as many updates, competitions and artwork for The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!
“Let’s show them one Judge is worth a hundred punks – cosmic or otherwise!”
It sounds like Instagram, owned by Meta, who also own Facebook needs to do better preserving member content in case of situations like this. It must be extremely disheartening for the hardworking 2000AD press team to have to restart building their Instagram presence, so help them out – ditch the old account from your feeds and follow the new one now.
• Follow the brand new 2000AD Instagram account at instagram.com/2000ADcomic
• All your official 2000AD sources are listed here
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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.
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