Arthur Wyatt Comics Writer 2000AD The Judge Dredd Megazine

Judge Dredd Megazine

Hi Arthur! *Waves*

Arthur Wyatt is a friend of mine and I recently gently teased him for setting up a google alert for himself to see if anyone was talking about his writing. I wonder how long before he spots this…? 😉

He’s great by the way and you should check out his stuff in 2000AD and especially The Judge Dredd Megazine – where he’s current got a story ‘Samizdat Squad‘

His web site is here, it’s a bit old and his main online presence is on Metafilter.

Prog 1 to Prog 1500

Every cover of the British science fiction comic 2000 AD from the years ’77 to ’06 in 3 and a half minutes. Zarjaz!

Breaking the Fourth Panel: Neonomicon and the Comic Book Frame

Alan Moore’s recent Lovecraftian comic dissected.

Space Girl

Spacegirl Vol. 1

Spacegirl Vol. 2

by Travis Charest

Artists in action

Drawing Superheros… videos of comics artists sketching and inking.

John Romita and Joe Kubert

INCREDIBLE, you say?????

How could you resist?

Back in the day they really new how to get you in a fever of anticipation for next month… Jack Kirby’s ‘Next Issue’ Panels from Captain America #193-208!

When the future was 2000AD

'"I am The Law! I am Dredd–JUDGE DREDD!"'

When the future was 2000AD by Garth Ennis. Thrill-power invested illustrative examples courtesy of Simon Gurr.

The Adam Hughes Corollary to the Gene Siskel Movie Test

“Before making a movie based on a licensed property, ask yourself: is this movie going to be less entertaining than just Googling for Adam Hughes drawings of these same characters?”

Infinitely better than the film...

Hughes’s website

Close To Midnight – Watchmen and the magic of Alan Moore

(Originally published in Vector, Nov 2001)

“The War And Piece of comic books” — Terry Gilliam

Blood in the gutter

Close-up of a red splattered yellow smiley badge. Zoom out. The badge lies in a red river — blood flowing in the gutter (1) of a New York street. Caption: “Rorschach’s Journal October 12th 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.”

And so begins Watchmen.

For a brief period of time, during the middle of the eighties, it was not only perfectly acceptable to be seen reading a graphic novel on public transport but actually quite trendy. Works such as Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Bryan Talbot’s The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright were at the forefront of this boom in comics targeted at a more adult audience. But leading them all was Watchmen, the first graphic novel to win a Hugo (in the ‘Other Forms’ category). So influential, that its version of the classic smiley became the badge of choice on many a lapel. Why? Because it told a gripping story using brilliant characters, was packed full of social commentary revolving around power and control, plus, and most crucially, it also examined and deconstructed its own genre.

The Greatest Comic Book Quotes Ever!

The 20 Greatest Lines Ever Said By Comic Book Characters

4. “Paradise unearned is but a land of shadows!” – The Silver Surfer

That’s pure philosophy, right there…