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I worry about the copyright issues, but have to admit I was intrigued enough to look at more than one issue [slaps wrist].
It doesn't appear that every page is present though - using the example of prog 5 - there is no nerve centre and pin up page in the scans (only 28 pages!).

For animated gifs you need something like photoshop with the image ready suite installed. Then it's just like animating stop motion, you need all the frames or elements ready before hand. It's quite simple but requires a bit of playing to get something that you're happy with.

That's the business. Seriously cool!

[The reality:]

I wish:
Who would you be drawn by?
JAMIE HEWLETT (circa 1990)

Who would you be written by?
DAN ABNETT

What kind of genre would your story be?
Bonkers Adventure

The reality:
Who would you be drawn by?
A ham-fisted five year old with ADHD

Who would you be written by?
An anonymous staff writer

What kind of genre would your story be?
Gag strip ala The Bash Street Kids with a healthy dose of horror thrown in.

Tour-kwei-marda
Tor-kwei-mad-a

I assume no-one reads Niamh as anything other than Neeve. I admit I did used to try to add a quiet/silent 'huh' after saying name: "Naim-ah".

The rubber stamp is on order. Just eleven more pointless observations and other chi-chat and I'll be numbering pages... oh boy, oh boy!

A girl doesn't ever tell don't you know!

Quite, my apologies.

I enjoyed Zippy Couriers - something nice and comfortable about it, but iirc Graham Higgins was the artist on Zippy Couriers. Although his stuff does have certain qualities of Jesus Redondo's work about it.

I feel like myself again.

My wife gets 99% of her work through Facebook.

That's pretty interesting. Hmm, the allure of the old folding stuff - maybe I'll check it out.

Anyone else do good business through facebook?

[2000AD]

I was thinking of starting a topic like this, until, well, you know...

Reading the great tales above, and some of the recent intros I realized I find it pretty interested to know how other people got into 2000AD. So now, I'm gonna bore you with how my addiction to 2000AD began.

Ian Telford moved to my area. We used to go to school on the same bus and one day (after he had been at my school for a while) he had both the 2000AD and Judge Dredd annuals for 1985 in his bag. (mygrimmbrother's great homage to Mick McMahon got me thinking about this too.)

Ian let me look at those annuals pretty much all the way to school. I was hooked on 2000ad from that point on, when I got  home, I told my Mum about it and asked if I could have 2000AD reserved at the newsagents. The following Tuesday my first prog was waiting when I got home... Prog 425 with a wraparound cover by Ezquerra - "The Slavers Of Drule", I read that comic until most of the printers' ink was on my hands and the pages were falling apart.

My Mum bought every issue of 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Magazine for the next 15 years... Then around prog 1226 I'd had enough. I met my wife shortly after and didn't read another issue until 1594. I must say, I'm enjoying 2000AD more now than I ever did before.

PS. Ian, if you're out there - drop me a line.

My batch came yesterday and read two of them straight away, totally spiffy, though not as spiffy as my Bolt 01 Dredd sketch, man it's the shiz!

Depicted with a jumbo Lawgiver?

Hello! Nice intro.

I'd wear "I'm with Rowdy Yates!" Dredd on a dark blue t-shirt with pride!

I don't think they go wrong in particular - I think it's just a slightly different take on Dredd. There really is only the one bench mark for Dredd writing and it's a consistently high one. Unlike other long standing characters who have had repeated restarts, new writers, new visions and all that cobblers. Dredd has only ever had a handful of writers in 30years - no-one else has had a decent chance to get really used to writing him. Although I think Gordon, Robbie and Al have done pretty well.