I've been thinking about this for some time: Matt Howarth would make a great droid for Tharg. Gaiman wrote a nice little blurb for one of his comics recently. To paraphrase, Gaiman said that no one writes the old fasioned pulp science fiction comics anymore, except Howarth. Nonsense, I thought, provided 2000ad is still around.
There have always been parallels between his work and the pieces published in 2000ad. 1)Most of his work leans on hard Sci-Fi and/or ultra-violence. 2)He began publishing from the late seventies and hit his peak in the eighties. 3) He has never found a place in the mainstream U.S. superhero market.
Check him out at: www.matthowarth.com
Click on Online Comics & Fiction for examples. If you can find a copy of Post Bros: Das Loot at your local comic shop I believe you will agree with me that he is more than qualified.
Give him a try Tharg. I hate watching good comic artists, that don't fit into the highbrow or superhero markets, starve. Send him a copy of Indigo Prime and I think he'll know what to do. If it doesn't work out.... call Ted McKeever who's in practically the same boat.
His Post brothers stuff is certainly reminiscant of the kind of zany, plot-light, violence-heavy strips we saw a lot of in 2000ad in the 90s. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is another question.
It's all a question of balance. The problem with the 90's was that was all that was available. The Keif Llama stuff might be more your bag, it's plot-heavy and violence-low. I'm sorry his website doesn't have an issue to browse, but he did put out a collection recently. Keif Llama: Particle Dreams. That's some of his eighties work and I think some of his best in terms of art and story.
I'm a Tank Girl and Flaming Carrot fan: done right, plot-light, zany, absurd violence sell me a comic every time.
How would you feel towards McKeever?
McKeever would definately be great for a Terror tales type story.
Oh, my threads been moved. Well, this is a better spot for it anyhow.
I'll take McKeever on anything besides the Elseworlds dreck DCs been comissioning from him. He'd do well on terror tales. I'd like to see him get back to writing. Eddie Current, Plastic Forks, and Metropol are some of my favorites and would have been suitable for 2000ad.
Bah. Apparently his 'Princess of Mars' project got cancelled. A pity, that sounded quite interesting.
Link: http://www.luna7.com/McKeever/mckeever.htm