Pat Mills Archives

By Olly MacNamee For those of us comic book fans keeping a keen eye on the MCM Comic Con's Main Stage schedule this last Saturday for any comic book related events, we were pleasantly rewarded with a lunchtime panel spotlighting the career of modern British comic groundbreaker, Pat Mills Yes, THE Pat Mills, coming in under[...]

It will be available digitally worldwide on the 28th of January, however, through digital platforms like the 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD iPad app, and the 2000 AD Android app. In Prog 1915 you will find: Judge Dredd: Dark Justice by John Wagner & Greg Staples Savage: Grinders by Pat Mills & Patrick Goddard The Order by Kek-W & John Burns Ulysses Sweet Maniac For[...]

Punisher 2099 was co-created by Pat Mills, one of the men behind the creation of Judge Dredd and the co-creator of Marshal Law When Pat creates superheroes, he has a tendency to create them for satirical purpose and go over the top sowing what a bad idea the character would be in real life And[...]

To become true agents of Khaos, they must first travel to the planet Hekate, collecting seven heads and a seventh team member before The Night of The Blood Moon. Will the power of Khaos be enough to stop the Terran Empire from obliterating them with their deadly weapon, The Hellbringer? Co-written by Pat Mills (Marshal Law,[...]

Pat Mills has been talking about his nightmares dealing with Hollywood trying to adapt his comics into movies Such as, Then there was the boss of a media company that's a household name who 'definitely' wanted to do a whole range of projects featuring my characters, including Marshal Law They were 'very, very serious' This time[...]

Bissette, Sarah Glidden, Kathryn & Stuart Immonen, Lilli Carré, and Pat Mills and David Hitchcock. "Aftermath" is a fitting conclusion to both the war and the graphic novel The Next War by Osbert Sitwell, adapted by Simon Gane is extremely reminiscent of a Hellboy one-shot Gane's style reminds me of Duncan Fegredo and even bits of[...]

I bumped into Pat Mills at the British Library last week, there are a number of his works in the exhibition, including 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Marshal Law and Charley's War. A fondly remembered strip, a harsh retelling of the First World War from the point of view of an under age soldier, it has recently been[...]

Such as a single book on a stand from Soaring Penguin Press… … that nevertheless had garnered considerable foreign rights attention, Pat Mills editing a new war comics anthology. I saw the publishers also meeting with Diamond later… Seem a perfect match. But the French have plenty of star power too, with plenty of graphic novels from plenty of[...]

Top marks to Simon Bowland for great lettering too, especially on the sound effects. 4.Robot Remembrance Pat Mills! Clint Langley! Annie Parkhouse! Horrible mechanical violence! The ABC Warriors are back in Return to Mars This is a smartly done, small scale piece that emphasizes both the absurdity and brutality of the ABCs The piece is essentially a[...]

They put all this out for free, with each issue being available across multiple platforms so you aren't stuck having to go with one specific DRM. The issues so far have included: Pat Mills (American Reaper), Joe Caramagna (The Further Travels Of Wyatt Earp), Fred Van Lente (Action Philosophers) and Horacio Lalia (The Tell-Tale Heart) with covers[...]

Other tutors include Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art Andrzej Klimowski, comics writer and curator Paul Gravett, and the creator of 2000 AD Pat Mills. £99 a ticket if you get in early.   Well this sounds like fun From The Guardian newspaper; Curated by graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero, this in-depth full-day seminar covers everything[...]

The Amazon Glitch has glitched again and this fifty dollar collection of Marshal Law comics by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill from DC Comics can be preordered for ten pounds on Amazon.co.uk, less than shops will pay for it So whether you are a reader or a retailer, now might be a good time to[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Gavin Lees In the mid-twentieth century, Britain began to build upwards. In place of the rubble and desolation caused by

Yet any glimpse of his work of his solo work in Dodgem Logic should disabuse you of that idea instantly… While round the corner, Simon Bisley and Pat Mills were signing in Forbidden Planet Not exactly sure what gesture Pat is making for the camera there… maybe he's just found out about Morrison and Kingsley's entries[...]

And then… well nothing for a while. Now the collected stories of the officer who tracks down superheroes – and who claims he hasn't met one yet – is confirmed from author Pat Mills as scheduled for Spring 2013, two years after we first reported it The Marshal Law Omnibus will collect all the character's solo[...]

It's been around for a while, but it's finally seeing publication as a comic. Pat Mills, creator of 2000AD and developer of Judge Dredd has teamed with artist Clint Langley for a new monthly series to run in Judge Dredd Megazine. American Reaper starts from  October 12th, and it's a sci-fi police procedural with future cops taking[...]

On the influential social network Mumsnet, Jo Bevan has been running the alliterative Bring Back Bunty campaign, aimed at bringing back girls comics onto the shelves of newsagents in the UK. Now, it seems, their greatest hope is the creator of 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd, Pat Mills. Mills not only worked on many of the[...]

My second-to-local university is involved with the Comics And Conflict conference being held at the Imperial War Museum in London in August. Conference speakers and guests include Pat Mills of 2000AD, World War III and Charley's War, Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury, Garth Ennis of Troubled Souls, War Stories and Crossed and Francesca Cassavetti[...]

To launch Playstation 3's inFAMOUS 2, Judge Dredd co-creator Pat Mills has writted a series of comic strips about the tabloid headline grabbers, edited by drugs evangelist Howard Marks. Beyonce – Bootylicious Trouble is drawn by Barnaby Richards, Cheryl Cole – Bad Hair Day by Ellen Lindner, Gary Barlow – Nearly Naughty by Mustashrik,[...]

And there's no greater evidence than this that Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill are arranging for DC Comics to publish Marshal Law. The ultimate in anti-superhero satire, Marshal Law ruthlessly sends up company trademarked superheroes as sexual deviants, mentally unsound, pathetic creatures and unworthy of the name hero It's far more brutal than The Boys has[...]

The DFC was an exception, but one that fared poorly. The girls' comic in the UK is a much missed genre, where the likes of everyone from Pat Mills to Paul Grist honed their skills, and made for a femal comics reading generation that were seemingly abandoned. CLiNT Magazine will be featured on BBC's Newsnight Review tonight[...]

A glance at the roster of talent involved is enough to take the breath away, and it should be remembered that a whole generation of readers was able to pick up almost any given issue and see a dozen of these guys at their very best. So thank you: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day, Alan[...]