Tag Archive | "John Wagner"

Equality in the Big Meg – Tour of Duty

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: Backlash and Mega City Justice By Wagner, MacNeil, Walker, Critchlow, Higgins, Ezquerra et al Published Rebellion Approaching a Judge Dredd graphic novel is not as easy as it seems; Dredd is for me personally an iconic character going back to my childhood, so when you read the story that is [...]

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Happy Saint Andrew’s Day

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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It’s Saint Andrew’s Day in Scotland which gives me an excuse to post up a bit of art from one of my favourite Scottish Indy comics, the brilliant Bogie Man by Alan Grant, John Wagner and Robin Smith. Please, please, can someone persuade Robin Smith that it really does need reprinting? (cover to issue 3 [...]

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Dundee Comics Day

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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Over on the fine Comic Book Resources site Laura Sneddon is posting up on her experiences on the University of Dundee’s post-graduate course in comics studies which we’ve mentioned here before (and indeed defended strongly on Twitter when a very ignorant, ill-informed Scottish MP attacked it groundlessly). And as part of her reporting on her [...]

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Reprint, please: the Last American

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Reading Mick McMahon’s blog recently I noticed he was talking at one point about his work on The Last American, a four part mini-series for the Epic imprint he did with Alan Grant and John Wagner back in 1990. Mick was showing some of the art he did for the cover of the collected version [...]

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Dredd and the Fat Fathers

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Jon Haward‘s been allowed by Tharg to show off a page of art he drew for a Wagner-scripted Judge Dredd tale Fat Fathers (nostalgic sigh for the original League of Fatties, eating comps and bellywheels, genius and biting satire in one glorious strip, a 2000 AD trademark). Jon explains it took him three days to [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: Judge Dredd: America

Friday, February 5, 2010

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Some of you may have noticed that we’ve recently changed the format of our popular weekly newsletter, now creating a second one each week dedicated purely to graphic novels. Along with recommendations for upcoming new titles from all sorts of publishers we decided we also wanted to include a suggestion for a classic title, a [...]

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Holy drokk – Wagner talks Dredd

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Over on the 2000 AD Review site the mighty John Wagner discusses writing for Judge Dredd across three decades. For a lot of Brit comics readers its impossible to overstate John’s importance and influence – a whole pile of us have grown up reading his work (which maintains a consistently high quality); some of those [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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As another week wooshes by bringing us to Thursday (already??) its time for Alex to update us with some of the shows he’s involved with, including a second look at Doctor Who in comics form, this time the classic Who strips. As usual for more details and links to archived podcasts of previous shows check [...]

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