Perusing some recent additions to the Eclectic Micks sketch blog collective of Irish comics creators we’ve mentioned before and I see PJ Holden has posted up some of his earlier Rogue Trooper work, some originally done for the great wee 2000 AD tribute ‘zine Zarjaz with Si Spurrier, with PJ also talking about how long he had wanted to draw the genetic infantryman, how he got into creating work for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic and the Mighty Tharg offering him a full gig at 2000 AD, a dream come true for him.
And also sticking with a PJ theme, scribe Jasper Bark has scanned in an old Future Shock from 2000 AD (the short tale Future Shocks being a tried and tested place for many writers and artists to try out their craft and a much loved feature among 2000 AD fans, myself included), Autocrats Anonymous, complete with art by PJ and lettering by the late, great Tom Frame:
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
Comics and cartoons