Category: 2000ad

2000AD Script – T B Grover (John Wagner / Alan Grant) and art by Cliff Robinson

From Prog 434 7th September 1985

I have been very excited about this for a number of reasons.  I buy a lot of my comic art from eBay and over the weekend was perusing the site when I saw a 2000AD comic script.  I had never seen one of these before so was excited by the piece (well pieces there were two but you only get to see one today).

Within moments my pulse was racing as I realised just what it was.  Not only was it a script from a story that I remember from 1985 but it was the script from a Prog that I read so many times and was THE most memorable one from my childhood.  I remember reading this prog over and over and loving the two gangs featured – the Zits and the Sharks.  The art work is amazing and the story was brilliant – a musical!

Well I just had to have and a quick bid and it was all mine.

The story is that the seller’s brother went to school with Alan Grant’s daughter or son and I believe it because the other script is signed by Alan Grant and John Wagner and I have both of their signatures on stuff from a Con a few years ago.  All checks out and to be honest it didn’t cost enough to be worth creating a forgery.

Anyway, if this is your thing check it out.  Me and my youngest had a read of it tonight – me on the script and him on the comic and it was almost exactly the same.

 

 

2000AD Prog 10

30th of April 1977

Okay, so this one matter s for a number of reasons.  Prog ten  was the first ever multi part Dredd story and importantly was the first where John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra worked together.  Their work would become some of the finest to fill the pages of 2000ad and Robot wars was a sign of things to come.  Inside is a wonderful double page Dan Dare spread.  The cover was drawn by the unmistakable Carlos Ezquerra (I will show you my Ezquerra piece another time) and inside you will also find the following:

  • Dan Dare by Kelvin Gosnell and Massimo Bellardinelli
  • M.A.C.H.1 by pat mills and Enio
  • Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
  • Invasion by Gerry Finley Day and Eric Bradbury
  • Flesh by Studio Giolitti and Ramon Sola
  • A Tharg 2000AD vehicle testing thingy
  • Harlem Heroes by Tom Tully and- Dave Gibbons
  • On the back is the Flesh Card Game cut out

A freaking amazing prog!

 

 

 

 

2000AD ART – Nikolai Dante – Charlie Adlard

From Prog 481 in 1986.

Charlie Adlard is probably best known these days for his work on ‘The Walking Dead’.  He draws a lot of the current stuff but he has also done stuff for 2000Ad in the past and this is one of those pieces.

Its from ‘Them Masque of Dante’ story and is a signed piece that has the acetate lettering overlay as well as what I think is a note from the editor indicating where to put some of the lettering.

It shows you how the lettering can be added and is obviously different from the one I posted a few days ago here

 

where the lettering is cut out and pasted on.  Here you can just lift it off.

 

 

 

2000AD ART – ACE TRUCKING CO. – Massimo Belardinelli

From Prog 481 in 1986.

I have more comic art work than I have walls, and I do not have nearly enough of it framed and on display and the piece below really should be hanging on the wall somewhere.

This is a piece by Massimo Belardinelli who’s most notable 2000AD work was surely ACE TRUCKING CO.  He did do some Dredd, Flesh, Slaine and others but the space haulage comedy was one of the strips from my youth that I still remember with fondness.  I love this piece especially because of the lettering.  I will show you how they do acetate lettering another time but in this one if you look closely you can see how the lettering has been cut out and glued on afterwards.

Love it love it love it.

 

 

 

2000AD Dredd the Movie – Schematic

Just because I thought it was cool. that’s why/

There are two Dredd films, and I actually love them both.  Yes the first is awful for many reasons but seeing Dredd on screen still thrills me.  Karl Urban’s Dredd was more to the liking of most than Stallone’s and I agree – that was a fabulous film.  I don’t plan to go into all that though. what I wanted to show you was a schematic for a corridor.

More specifically a design sketch for a corridor in the Karl Urban Dredd film.

I just thought it was cool so I bought it…

 

2000AD Prog 71

1st of July 1978

I wrote about the banned Ronald McDonald storyline here, well here is another fantastic  colour double spread from the story printed in Prog 71.  A thing of real beauty drawn by Mike McMahon and written by pat Mills.

I’ll tell you about the time I met Mike another time, but he is a thoroughly pleasant chap.

 

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2000AD Prog 78

12th of August 1978

Last week I showed you the 2000AD Ronald McDonald v Burger King episode from 1978 that will never see a reprint due to it’s copyright infringement.  Today I will bring you another from 5 weeks later.  This time they featured the Jolly Green giant and again, you’ll never see a reprint I am certain.

The prog also features Dan Dare, Ant Wars, a Future Shock and Ian Gibson’s unmistakable ROBO HUNTER art.  Love it muchly!  The back cover has a series of what were intended to be cu out cards that formed part of a board game that would be printed over a 6 week period.  I’m rather glad the person who had mine originally did not!

 

 

 

 

 

2000AD Glimmer Rats – Comic Art

Gordon Rennie and Mark Harrison bring you Glimmer Rats.

One of my all time favourite 2000AD strips is Glimmer Rats.  Written by the legend that is Gordon Rennie and drawn by Mark Harrison it really is a great story and a feast for the eyes.

I picked up a couple of pieces of the art from it on EBAY somehow a few years ago and they are gorgeous sketches what have been water coloured in black and grey.  I think.  Take a look I hope you like them and if you can you should pick up a copy of it because it is freakishly gorgeous.

 

2000AD Prog 72

8th of July 1978

There are a number of issues of 2000ad which will never see a reprint because they infringed copyright, and Prog72 is one of those.  It featured the ‘Burger Wars’ story which sees Ronald McDonald and The Burger King take centre stage.   It has a gorgeous colour centre spread by Mike McMahon which still looks great now even after thirty years.

You can still get your hands on the originals fairly easily if you’re willing to spend a few quid, it certainly won’t break the bank.  Old Ronnie hasn’t changed much over the years as you can see though the King does look somewhat better now than then I think.  Inferno, Dan Dare, Ant Wars and Mach Zero also feature in the prog. 

 

 

 

2000AD Prog 1

26 February 1977

I have written about 2000AD previously and my love for what is most definitely the most marvelous comic in the galaxy, but unfortunately the blog I posted them all to was deleted in a nasty WordPress accident a while back so I figured I’d start posting again on the subject. Rather than waffling on about how and why I love this comic so much let’s just jump straight in to the very first issue published in 1977.

These are photos of my actual copy. For A comic over forty years old even now it still looks amazing. I don’t have the red space spinner that came with it and whilst many collectors would be crazy about the copy with it attached I’m not overly fussed I just love being able to read it even if it isn’t in the best of conditions.

Judge Dredd was not actually in the very first copy and you can see in one of the photographs below it says he’s coming next week.