Expect 45 pieces of artistic brilliance – brand new takes coming from artists old and new, both familiar names to readers of the Prog and new and exciting artists from further afield!
Inside you’ll find 45 stunning pieces from 45 great artists with one simple brief – interpret the characters that have made the Galaxy’s Greatest what it is over the past 45 years! And what a lineup it is… not just fabulous familiar names from the past and the present of 2000 AD history including Kevin O’Neill, Sean Phillips, Chris Weston, Henry Flint, and so many more, but some great artists who’ve not really been associated with 2000 AD before, including Jamie Smart, Hannah Templer, Priscilla Bampoh, Annie Wu, and a host of others.
Available in a standard hardcover or a special slipcase hardcover exclusive to the 2000 AD webshop, this is a unique collection honouring four and a half decades of groundbreaking comics!
The 2000AD Website has been running a series of interviews with the artists who have contributed artwork, leading off with editor Oliver Pickles, frontispiece artist SK Moore and artists Kevin O'Neill and Mick McMahon.
Here's Mick McMahon talking about his contribution:
Keith Richardson mailed me about this pin-up book and suggested that I might like to do my take on Bad Company. To be honest I’d never heard of Bad Company, but once I’d had a look at it I knew it was something I could get my teeth into.
First priority was to decide which characters to use, there’s a lot of ’em! At the roughs stage, I had several goes at trying to compose a shot where the characters are standing around in classic pin-up fashion but there were so many legs my head was spinning, so I decided to do an action shot instead.
Once I’d had the idea that they would all be firing their weapons
only to the left or the right, it all seemed to come together quite
naturally, and through the judicious use of smoke (the artist’s friend),
I managed to not have to draw any legs at all. Hurrah!
Links to the various interviews:
Part 1: Oliver Pickles, SK Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Mick McMahon
Part 2: Chun Lo, Steve White, Eduardo Ocana, VV Glass, Andreas Butzbach, Josh Hicks
Part 3: Dani, Staz Johnson, Mike Perkins, Priscilla Bampoh, Henry Flint,
Part 4: Langdon Foss, Dave Kendall, Bex Glendining, Vincenzo Riccardi, Richard Elson, Sean Phillips, James Harren
Part 5: Simon Coleby, Lando, Mateus Manhanini, Hannah Templer
And now, this week's releases...
2000AD Prog 2284
Cover: INJ Culbard.
Judge Dredd: An Honest Man by Kenneth Niemand (w) Tom Foster (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse
Future Shocks: School Run by John Tomlinson (w) Steven Austin (a) Simon Bowland (l)
Brink: Mercury Retrograde by Dan Abnett (w) INJ Culbard (a) Simon Bowland
Hope: In The Shadows by Guy Adams (w) Jimmy Broxton (a) Jim Campbell (l)
Fiends of the Eastern Front: 1963 by Ian Edginton (w) Tiernen Trevallion (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
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