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Hi,
I was given a sketch a couple of years ago at Bristol.
Unfortunately I can't remember the artist's name (oops). I am not sure who the signature matches up with - any ideas? Carl? Carlos?http://www.winisp.net/greengoblin/Comics/Preview_durham.jpg">

Hi,
I was given a sketch a couple of years ago at Bristol.
Unfortunately I can't remember the artist's name (oops). I am not sure who the signature matches up with - any ideas? Carl? Carlos?http://www.winisp.net/greengoblin/Comics/Preview_durham.jpg">

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 FI - Nigel Kitching
 MB - Paul J Holden
 AB - Simon Spurrier
 RM - Matt Smith
 The MC opened with a request for what went well this year. Matt replied that there was positive feedback on the new stories (Chopper, Low Life) which was encouraging. He was looking forward to issue 1400 (only 10 issues away) and also the new stories coming out in the second half of the year (including Caballistics Inc, Robohunter, Asylum sequel, and a Nikolai Dante in time for Christmas and for Shimura, a judge character he had created in the Megazine way back in 1993.Si was quick to point out that Shakara must be a Pokemon as the only dialogue they have is their name. Made logical sense to me. Si went on to mention script work coming out for Lobster Random, Middenface McNulty story (Killoden, a grim parody of John Ridgway), a gory Judge Dredd (drawn by Se7en" with someone impaled on the Empire State, for example.)
 All sound interesting.Frazer mentioned that he had worked with Si on the Simping Detective before plugging his non-2000AD work. Apparently he needed to loadly emphasise the Simping Detective for those at the back who hadn't heard him the first time. 

 The MC asked about breaking into the US more - Rebellion are working with DC on some cross-overs (Robby started to drool at the idea of a Wonder Woman/Nokolai Dante team-up). The weekly anthology format of 2000AD doesn't suit the US market.Asked as to what didn't go well this year, Matt quickly saw through the MC's question and started talking about Steve Moore's writing in Striker, the football comic with Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) graphics? Frazer thought it was "absolutely bloody awful" and Alan said that 2000AD would use such graphics over their dead bodies. So the panel were pretty evenly split there.
 Alan mentioned that Extreme would move to bi-monthly. They would drop the theme as it was becoming too tenuous a link between stories. It's a great job selecting stories - sitting there all day reading old progs. On the subject of reprints, there's a graphic novel compilation of the  Judge Dredd/Batman stories (except the one printed on different paper, I think). A few others in the pipeline included Robohunter's Verdus story.
 Rogue Trooper game? 2005.Frazer was quizzed on the possibility of using Colour in his artwork. Apparently the occasional use cyan and magenta counts. Hmmm.Why does the panel think artists and writers go to the US? For example, Andy Diggle have recently signed a 2-year exclusive deal with DC (I didn't realise Andy had been editor of 2000AD and the MegaZine for about 18 months). Robby said working on The Authority was not an offer you could turn down. The panel explained that the US paid well and there was a larger market (who can turn down more fame?) but it isn't one-way traffic. Matt explained that there was only a certain number of artists and writers who can be published in a weekly 2000AD (and worse for the monthly Megazine) so people have to get work somewhere - why not the US?
 Alan said 2000AD did not regret people leaving - going to the US adds experience and exposes artists and writers to a wider spectrum of work. It is, though, expected that Jock and Andy will be back some time in the future - Black Library (has worked on    Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; reprint of Warhammer magazine story setting the Seven Sumarai on Necromunda. This is aimed at kids so lots of violence but no decapitations. Also writing for Toxic! - "Nana's and Custard" for the 10-11 year old boy market.
    Robby has The Authority coming out in October; also referred to Charlie Adler and Batman stuff but I missed what.
    
Frazer was challenged over his work looking like Berni Wrightson (co-creator of Swamp Thing; good artist during the 70's and early 80's). Obviously this annoyed Frazer a little - I don't know how many times he gets this. Just because he does horror in B/W doesn't mean he's copying Berni. Instead he said that Berni copied Ken Smith but that lost me - maybe I misheard.
    Bits and bobs:
    
  Any sequel to From Grace - any more? Si said probably a one-off.
  Charley's War is still going on although it will take a break   at Christmas when the story should have reached the Somme. Comment was made that CW was going on so long that it felt like   real-time.
  Where there any self-contained stories like Leviathan in the pipeline? There's a murder story set in Luna City 1 initially drawn by Laurence Campbell and Synnamon 2? Yes - Colin Clayton and Chris Dows have a 3-parter in early November.
  Did I mention that the Simping Detective will be out soon?
 
  That's it - buggered if I'll ensure everything has a bloody hyperlink again though

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