Gave Artist's In-Jokes

[2000AD Online]

Not so much an in-joke as an observation about eagle shoulder pads. Until Steve Dillon came along, no Dredd artist had ever drawn 'em face on.

[Tommo]

--Oh, and a member of the Council Of Five is named after another mate of mine. You'll just have to guess which one...

(Flicks through prog) Buelle. Niles. McTighe. Ramos. Hollister.

[esoteric ed]

The Mechanimo robots named after the legendary JACKSONS combo Tito, Jefferson etc, as for the reason, who knows?

Ed

[DavidXBrunt]

Nah, either Ron Smith or Ian Gibson drew him 'pad on' in the 200's.

[2000AD Online]

Oh sure, Dredd artists do it all the time, now. But Dillon was the first, if not 'Alone In The Crowd' (Prog 205?), soon after. If not before.

[ukdane]

There's a picture of a baby on the last panel on one of the (IIRC) recent Lenny Zero episodes...

[jock]

yep, that's my boy....there's been a spate of adverts recently with a babys face on billboards, so I thought I'd continue that into mega city...

Jock

[Jayzus B. Christ]

I remember a good one in Sinister Dexter where various billboards read 'Drink Fek', 'Arse' and 'Girls'. Excellent, but I can't remember the artist.
There was another one where all the buidings were shaped like huge cocks. Randy Stewart eat your heart out.

[DavidXBrunt]

In the Nemesis story 'The Gothic Empire' there's a sequence with junkie robots. I think Robot Archie is amongst them.

[ukdane]

Arthur Ranson drew a portrait of Peter Hogan (IIRC), and used his image as that of a psychiatrist in Button Man.


And in this months Meg, one of the streets in Scarlet Traces is called 'Erskine Lane' afer the artist.

[MOONSHINE]

I seem to remember lots of familiar faces appearing in the mass grave scenes post Necropolis.
Can't remember the details though.

[Smiley]

In 1311's Dredd "Zoom Time", Pyre makes an appearance in the crowd. It looks like Zoidberg from Futurama could be in there too!

[Generally Contrary]

A Walter the Wobot look-alike makes an appearance in Alan Moore's Top Ten, though from what I hear of his panel decriptions I doubt the artist had much to do with this.

Andy B.

[karne]

In the Dredd lunar based death race 2ooo parody, which is apparently Bolland's first published 2K artwork, one of the cit's has a carrier bag with BOLLO'S printed on it. Although not the earliest in-joke, it's certainly a good example of making sure you get credit for your work.

[ukdane]

In this weeks Terror Tale, there is a tv screen, and 'Farscape' is on.... a picture of the evil scorpius is depicted on the screen.