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Encyclopedia > Charlie Adlard

Charles "Charlie" Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller. He is best known in Britain for his work on White Death with Robbie Morrison and 2000AD series including Judge Dredd, Savage and Armitage. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ... In the collaborative method of producing a comic book used to create the majority of the comics published by major US publishers, the penciller (or penciler) is the artist who interprets the story created by the writer as comics pages drawn in pencil. ... Robbie Morrison is a British comics writer most known for his work in 2000 AD and as the co-creator of popular character Nikolai Dante. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... Luna 1 Justice Department=hiddenStructure style=vertical-align: top; This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... Savage has various meanings. ...


In the United States he is best known for his work on The X-Files (for Topps), Astronauts in Trouble (for AIT/Planet Lar) and The Walking Dead (for Image Comics). He is currently the regular penciller on The Walking Dead. The X-Files is a popular American television series created by Chris Carter. ... Some Topps Baseball cards The Topps Company, Inc. ... Astronauts in Trouble is the title of a series of comic books. ... The Walking Dead is a American comic book created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, published monthly in black and white (with color covers) by Image Comics. ... Image Comics is the third or fourth largest comic book publisher in the United States. ...


Other work includes: Mars Attacks! (also for Topps); The Hellfire Club and Warlock for Marvel Comics; Batman: Gotham Knights and Green Lantern / Green Arrow for DC Comics; White Death for Les Cartoonistes Dangereuses; Blair Witch: Dark Testaments and Codeflesh for Image; and The Establishment for Wildstorm, amongst many others. Mars Attacks! started out as a science fiction trading card series created by Topps and painted by Norman Saunders in 1962. ... Some Topps Baseball cards The Topps Company, Inc. ... This article is about the Hellfire Club, the group of comic book supervillains. ... Adam Warlock is a fictional character who is published by Marvel Comics. ... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... The DC Comics superhero Batman (originally and still sometimes referred to as the Batman or the Bat-Man) is a fictional character who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Cover to Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, art by Ethan Van Sciver. ... Green Arrow (Oliver Ollie Queen) is a DC Comics superhero. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... The Blair Witch Project is a low budget 1999 horror film in which three young film students mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth after being stalked through the woods, lost and kept awake by an unseen antagonist. ... WildStorm WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, is an American publisher of comic books. ...


Adlard's style has evolved from what was originally fully painted artwork on Armitage, through increasing confidence as a monochrome artist, to his recent work, which uses large blocks of black ink on the page to create shadow effects much more bold than are commonly seen in comics art. For information on the U.S. borough, see Paint, Pennsylvania. ... Something which is monochromatic has a single color. ...


He has received recognition for his work, including a nomination for the Squiddy Award for Best Inker in 2001.


Bibliography

Comics work includes

  • Judge Dredd: The Hand of Fate (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 #18, 1992)
  • Armitage (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #10-21 & 31-33, 1992-93)
  • Judge Hershey (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #35-36, 1993)
  • Rogue Trooper (in 2000 AD #950-52, 1995)
  • The X Files
  • Pulp Sci-Fi (in 2000 AD #1146, 1999)
  • Batman/Scarface (2001)
  • Savage Book I (in 2000 AD #1387-1396, 2004)
  • Savage Book II (in 2000 AD from #1450, 2005)
  • Warheads
  • The Walking Dead (#7-Present)
  • White Death, written by Robbie Morrison
  • FutureQuake #5 (Winter 2005) - cover artist.

Warheads was a Marvel UK comic book which ran for 14 issues in the early 1990s and was followed by the two-issue miniseries Warheads: Black Dawn. ... The Walking Dead is a American comic book created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, published monthly in black and white (with color covers) by Image Comics. ... Robbie Morrison is a British comics writer most known for his work in 2000 AD and as the co-creator of popular character Nikolai Dante. ... Cover to FutureQuake issue 5, by Charlie Adlard. ...

External links

2005 Interview with 2000ADReview

  • Comic Book Awards Almanac

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ADLARD: Unfortunately - the design for Warlock was down to our cover artist JH Williams - so I really had no influence on the basic design at all, I came onboard after the design had been approved.
ADLARD: Well - since I'm not [yet!] in the enviable position to pick and chose projects - I tend to be in the position where sometimes I take whatever is offered because there's nothing else around at that time.
ADLARD: It feels good to be part of this [albeit small] renaissance of the industry, it is nice to feel a bit more vindicated for what you do than before - though we've got a LONG way to go - especially in the US and UK.
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