Brett Ewins is a British comic book artist best known for his work on Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper in the weekly comic book 2000 AD.

Biography

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Ewins studied at Goldsmiths College and left in 1977. Ewins formed a long-term collaborative partnership with fellow artist Brendan McCarthy, creating the comic Sometime Stories, which faltered after the first issue leaving the second issue completed but unpublished. On the strength of Sometime Stories, Ewins soon started providing covers for 2000 AD, the first being issue #33 published in October of the same year.

Ewins and Brendan continued working together on such strips as Judge Dredd, but soon after Ewins began working solo on Rogue Trooper and later Judge Anderson. In 1985 Ewins started working on Bad Company, a sci-war epic, written by Peter Milligan with artwork by Ewins and Jim McCarthy (brother of Brendan).

Along with Steve Dillon, he started the comic magazine Deadline in 1988, which continued for another seven years.

In 1991 Ewins "suffered a serious breakdown from overwork" and was unable to take on work that had a deadline, which led to lost commissions from DC Comics and Penguin Books.^[1] His plan to recover was to create an anthology based on work from friends in the industry like Peter Milligan, Alan Grant and Alan McKenzie, as well as friends like musician Michael White. The volume was finished off with, "Machine," a story written by Brett based on his breakdown.^[2] He worked on the stories from 1995 to 2003^[1] and they were published in 2004 by Cyberosia Publishing.

Ewins currently paints and has had a number of exhibitions.

Bibliography

• Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • "Robot Repairs" (with Robert Flynn and Jim McCarthy, in 2000 AD #37-38, 1977)
  • "The Man Who Was Too Clever" (with Peter Milligan, in 2000 AD #216, 1981)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Bring Me The Head of Judge Dredd!" (with John Wagner, as "John Howard", and sharing art duties Brendan McCarthy, in 2000 AD #88, 1978)
  • "The DNA Man" (with John Wagner, as "John Howard", in 2000 AD #114-115, 1979)
  • "The Haunting of Sector House 9" (with John Wagner, as "T. B. Grover", in 2000 AD #359, 1984)

• ABC Warriors: "The Order of Knights Martial" (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #124, 1979)
• Rogue Trooper: "Bagman Blues" (with Gerry Finley-Day, in 2000 AD #261-262, 1982)
• Strange Days #1-3 (with Peter Milligan, Eclipse Comics, 1984-1985)
• The Johnny Nemo Magazine #1-3 (with Peter Milligan, Eclipse Comics, 1985-1986)

• Bad Company (pencils, with Peter Milligan and inks by Jim McCarthy):
  • "Bad Company" (in 2000 AD #500-519, 1986-1987)
  • "The Bewilderness" (in 2000 AD #548-557, 1987-1988)
  • "Young Men Marching" (in 2000AD Annual 1989, 1988)
  • "The Krool Heart" (in 2000 AD #576-585, 1988)
  • "Simply" (in 2000 AD #601, 1988)
  • "Ararat" (in 2000AD Annual 1990, 1989)
  • "Kano" (in 2000 AD #828-837, 1993)
  • "Down Among the Dead Men" (in 2000AD Annual 2001, 2000)
  • "Bad Company 2002" (in 2000 AD prog 2002 and #1273-1277, 2001-2002)

• Swamp Thing #70 (with Rick Veitch, Vertigo, 1988)

• Hellblazer #7-8 (with Jamie Delano, Vertigo, 1988)

• Skreemer (pencils, with writer Peter Milligan and inks by Steve Dillon, 6-issue mini-series, 1989, DC Comics, trade paperback, 169 pages, 2002, ISBN 1563899256) ^[3]

• Secret Origins: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" #23 (with Rick Veitch, DC Comics, February 1988)

• Mr X Special (with Peter Milligan, one-shot, Vortex Comics, 1990)

• The Dark Gate (editor and artist, with Peter Milligan, Alan McKenzie and Alan Grant, 64 pages, Cyberosia Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0974271365)

Awards

• 1989: Won "Favourite Single or Continued Story US" Eagle Award, for Skreemer

Notes

References

External links

• Official website