Arthur Ranson's photorealistic drawing style has been gracing British comics since the early 1970's.

Having trained as a stamp designer in the 1960's, Ranson first brought the precise techniques he had evolved as a result to TV comic Look-In, working alongside other major comics talents such as John M. Burns, Martin Asbury, Harry North, Colin Wyatt, John Bolton, Jim Baikie, Phil Gascoine, Barry Mitchel and Bill Titcombe. There he created strips such as Sapphire and Steel and Dangermouse, all written by Angus Allan, as well as a comic strip biography of The Beatles. There are several people named John Bolton, including: John R. Bolton - American politician John Bolton - British comic book artist John Bolton - Canadian Member of Parliament (1867-1872) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Sapphire & Steel was a British television science-fiction series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. ... Dangermouse is a British animated series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall and illustrated by Arthur Ranson. ... As almost the only script writer employed by television listings comic Look-In in the 1970s, Angus Allan (sometimes also credited as Angus P. Allan) was responsible for original comic strip adaptations of: Timeslip, Wreckers At Dead Eye, Redgauntlet, Prize Idiots, Follyfoot, The Flaxton Boys, Please, Sir, The Fenn... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their first United States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...

In 1990, Ranson moved to major British sci-fi comic 2000AD, where he has remained in employment ever since, apart from short stints on Batman and X-Men (Soldier X) comics. (Redirected from 2000AD) Note: This is an article about the British comic book 2000 AD, rather than the year 2000 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... The comic book character Batman (originally referred to as The Batman, and occasionally as The Bat-Man), is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Cable. ...

Since coming to 2000AD, Ranson has only ever worked with two writers. With John Wagner, he co-created the ultra-violent Button Man. As well as being the first non-sci-fi strip to appear in the comic's 15-year history, Button Man is also notable for being one of the few 2000AD creator-owned strips. John Wagner, is a comics writer who has also written under the pseudonyms John Howard, T.B. Grover, Mike Stott, Keef Ripley, Rick Clark and Brian Skuter. ... A comic strip created for leading British comic 2000AD, written by John Wagner and illustrated by Arthur Ranson. ...

With Alan Grant, Ranson co-created Mazeworld, a fantasy epic, and the two continue to collaborate on Judge Anderson, the long-running avdentures of Cassandra Anderson. A spin-off from Judge Dredd, Cassandra Anderson is a Judge with psychic skills, including telepathy and precognition. This page is about the comic book writer. ... Judge Cassandra Anderson, created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland in 1980, is a fictional character that started as a supporting character in the comic strip Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own strip. ... This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τηλε, tele, distant, and πάθεια, patheia, feeling, is the supposed ability to communicate information from one mind to another without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language, and is one form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition. ... Precognition is a form of extra-sensory perception which allows a percipient to perceive information about future places or events before they happen (as opposed to merely predicting them based on deductive reasoning and current knowledge). ...