Worst Dredd Artists

[Staz Johnson]

I have to say, I LOVED Alan Davis' Dredd, I'm not familiar with the Sam Keith thing, & although I agree on the Bellardineli (from the few pages I have seen of it), I tend to think that was more to do with the fact that he drew Dredd really early on.. when the style of character & his world was still being formed.

Turning this on it's head slightly, there is one artist who I think TOTALLY got Dredd & did a fantastic job (apart from not doing a very good Lawmaster)but as far as I'm aware only one ever shot at him.. Ian Kennedy!

[locustsofdeath!]

I really dig the D'Israeli Dredd story with the time traveller? Can't remember the name. I thought that was great.

Yeah there were two of those...Edington wrote 'em...but I can't recall the names of the strips either.

3 of em

tempus fugitive - 1390
time and again - 1475
time squared - 1551

Thanks for that BPP...I had forgotten that last one!

[Emperor]

I don't usually like these kinds of threads, though I get the gist. But Jim Baikie not getting Dredd? A "worst Dredd artist"? Is this is a case of don't like his style? I can't seen how anyone can say Baikie doesn't get Dredd.

I'm sure Pete Wells agrees, eh?

http://www.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_7767/subcat_47466/baikie2%20copy.jpg

Ooooooooo Pete also owns one of the pages from "In the Bath" the lucky devil:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=340019&GSub=47466

[exilewood]

Er....No.

[SuperSurfer]

The Hitman centre spread by Jim Baikie when Dredd gets blasted is effin' amazing.

[flip-r mk2]

Phil Elliott,The Gaia Conspiracy.



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[exilewood]

Phil Elliott,The Gaia Conspiracy.



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Oh sweet Tharg..yes. Horrible.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Jim Baikie was indeed the shit - like Ron Smith, he's good at doing ugly people, which MC1 has (to my mind at least) plenty of. Hard to  imagine The Hitman being done by anyone else.
There was one artist who was really good, and I can't remember his name - he did a story in the Megazine, by Robbie Morrison, I think, about a prejudiced, trigger happy West Wall judge who Dredd finally [spoiler]throws to the mutants[/spoiler]. But then he started to do this weird Dredd with a 95 movie helmet and a straggly beard - evidently he'd pissed on his own chips, Dreddwise, as he never drew him again.

[exilewood]

Dredd with a beard? It should NEVER happen. Not even unshaven. It just ain't Joe's way. He's a stickler.

[Jedit]

Worst Dredd artist: Dean Ormston.

[Trout]

Ian Kennedy's work is incredible, but he can't remember ever drawing Dredd. Yes, he did it, but it was just another job, many years ago.

I want to speak up for Jim Baikie, Massimo Belardinelli and Barry Kitson, who all brought their own great styles to Dredd. Kitson in particular was a fantastic artist, especially on Anderson.

I loved those D'Israeli stories, too.

- Trout

[flip-r mk2]

Jim Baikie was indeed the shit - like Ron Smith, he's good at doing ugly people, which MC1 has (to my mind at least) plenty of. Hard to  imagine The Hitman being done by anyone else.
There was one artist who was really good, and I can't remember his name - he did a story in the Megazine, by Robbie Morrison, I think, about a prejudiced, trigger happy West Wall judge who Dredd finally [spoiler]throws to the mutants[/spoiler]. But then he started to do this weird Dredd with a 95 movie helmet and a straggly beard - evidently he'd pissed on his own chips, Dreddwise, as he never drew him again.

Tom Carney.


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[flip-r mk2]

Here's Tom Carney's Dredd with a beard prog1011.




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[exilewood]

How did that get by the editors? In the old days, Tharg would've sent that back with a Rigellian Hotshot!

[flip-r mk2]

Here's a page from Sam Keith.




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