Judge Dredd vs. The Big Two!

[robocook]

A McMahon Dredd here...

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/britains-no1-sci-fi-hero.html

[Spikes]

Ahh, now were talking! Perhaps my all time favourite cover by Mick. Great stuff!

[robocook]

2000AD production art from Prog #294, 11th December 1982. Artists: Carlos Ezquerra and Ian Gibson

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.co.uk/

[ming]

Very nice, as always, Steve.  Once again, thanks for digging these out and sharing 'em.

[Frank]

Thanks for the link, Steve. Following it also led to me seeing your post with that fantastic Brendan McCarthy Dredd artwork you hand-tinted, which has always been a favourite of mine- despite the fact I've only ever seen it in the version you re-worked for the cover of Best Of 2000ad Monthly.

Does anyone know in which prog that artwork was originally published? And was it originally reproduced in colour or black and white? I seem to remember it being used inside another reprint title as b/w line art:

THE NEW(ish) MCCARTHYISM

[ming]

...despite the fact I've only ever seen it in the version you re-worked for the cover of Best Of 2000ad Monthly.

Does anyone know in which prog that artwork was originally published? And was it originally reproduced in colour or black and white? I seem to remember it being used inside another reprint title as b/w line art:

I can only remember it being on the cover of that Best of 2000AD issue...  Nothing else pops up in Barney (usually pretty reliable).  Not sure if this was reproduced in any other publications; maybe one of the Titan reprints?  Nothing springs to mind, though.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=profiles&choice=BO2K49

[ming]

I wish there was an edit function...

Anyway, having another look I noticed that the date of the artwork is 1984 and the BOK issue is from 1989, so it either got published some years earlier (I still don't remember it) or it just lay around for a few years before being used.

The latter suggestion may be given some weight by the McCarthy cover for BOK 246; again published in 1989 but the art is from 1983 and is another one I don't recall seeing elsewhere.

http://www.2000ad.org/covers/reprints/hires/BO2K46.jpg


Hopefully someone with better brain-function than I have today will come along to clarify soon.

[ming]

Gah - switch the the 1984 and 1983 on those two...  Nyaarrrrggghhh....

[Spikes]

...despite the fact I've only ever seen it in the version you re-worked for the cover of Best Of 2000ad Monthly.

Does anyone know in which prog that artwork was originally published? And was it originally reproduced in colour or black and white? I seem to remember it being used inside another reprint title as b/w line art:

I can only remember it being on the cover of that Best of 2000AD issue...  Nothing else pops up in Barney (usually pretty reliable).  Not sure if this was reproduced in any other publications; maybe one of the Titan reprints?  Nothing springs to mind, though.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=profiles&choice=BO2K49

Was pretty sure id seen this before, though my recollection was that it was a B&W interior pin-up, but a quick look through my back issues reveals it was in fact the coloured back cover to prog 327.

[ming]

Was pretty sure id seen this before, though my recollection was that it was a B&W interior pin-up, but a quick look through my back issues reveals it was in fact the coloured back cover to prog 327.

Good work, Iain!  I knew there'd be someone competent around here.

[ming]

...the McCarthy cover for BOK 246; again published in 1989 but the art is from 1983 and is another one I don't recall seeing elsewhere.

http://www.2000ad.org/covers/reprints/hires/BO2K46.jpg

Finally!  Pin-up from Prog 397 (colour).

Barney seems to be missing a few Star-Scan / pin-up credits... (I know Cam only has one listed).

[Spikes]

No probs, David!

Back in the day i was probably a bit sniffy about this, thinking as i did then, that it was just somebody aping McMahon's style, but you live and learn! its all kinds of loveliness isnt it.



Wouldnt mind one of those sketch books - they do look great. E-Bay scouting it is, then.

[Frank]

Thanks for the diligence, Ian; thanks for the laugh, David. My desultory and entirely opportunistic efforts at filling in back issues that I don't have end around 200 and don't pick up again until around 380, so I've never seen that issue in the flesh. Thanks again for your hard work.

[robocook]

Judge Dwedd!


http://secret-oranges.blogspot.fr/2012/07/judge-dwedd.html

[Frank]

Judge Dwedd!

http://secret-oranges.blogspot.fr/2012/07/judge-dwedd.html

Sorry to hear about the missile batteries, but the colour on that cover is extraordinary. I always thought the colour in the pre-litho days was produced using colour separations, but that's clearly hand-painted. Would that have been done by Gibson or Tom Frame?