Gordon Rennie is a former music journalist turned comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. Comics (sometimes spelled comix) are combinations of words and images into a medium for telling stories. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... Warhammer Battle miniatures - Dwarfs, Gotrek & Felix Warhammer or Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting created by Games Workshop, in which many games of that company are set, the best known ones being the Warhammer Fantasy Battle wargame, and the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay role-playing game. ...

Rennie's first major series for the 2000 AD family was Missionary Man, which began in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #29 (5/93) and ran between "the Meg" and 2000 AD for 74 episodes before finishing in 2002. Other original series have included Witch World (1997) and Rain Dogs (2000). He also took over the exploits of the perennial Judge Dredd villain Mean Machine (2000-01), as well as the return of the original Rogue Trooper (2002-04). Judge Dredd Megazine is a British magazine featuring comic strips set in the world of Judge Dredd, launched in October 1990. ... This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... Promotional poster for Mean Machine Mean Machine is a 2001 British comedy/drama film, directed by Barry Skolnick. ... Rogue Trooper was a science fiction strip in British comic book 2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons. ...

Among his most celebrated work for 2000 AD is the miniseries Necronauts (2000-01), in which Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort, and (inevitably) H. P. Lovecraft team up to defeat an incomprehensibly alien menace that seeks to destroy the human race. This was quickly followed up by the ongoing series Caballistics, Inc. (41 episodes as of August 2005), a story about a recently privatized team of occult researchers, which pleased fans with its combination of pop-cultural references and labyrinthine conspiracies. Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss (born Weisz Erik in the native Hungarian), one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time as well as an investigator of spiritualists. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... Charles Fort, 1920 Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 - May 3, 1932), writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Caballistics, Inc is a horror/fantasy comicbook series, set in the present day, that has been running in the weekly British anthology comic 2000AD since December 2002. ...

By 2004, Rennie had become the "number two" writer on the Judge Dredd strip, following up a number of subplots initiated by its principal author, John Wagner, as well as developing his own situations and guest characters, some of whom have spun-off into popular stories of their own. While the lengthier, "epic" Judge Dredd adventures are typically scripted by Wagner, Rennie was awarded one in 2005. This story, "Blood Trails," ran for ten episodes beginning in 2000 AD prog 1440 (5/25/05). 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, among others. ...

Rennie is known for maintaining close links with the fan community, for example by contributing to small press comics such as Solar Wind, despite a public persona he describes as "a grumpy Scottish git". Fan can mean the following: enthusiast or fanatic air-movement device This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Solar Wind is a British small press comicbook. ... Look up git in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Git may have several meanings: Git, a mild slang insult of British origin. ...

Bibliography

Comics work includes

• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 29-30 & 43, 1993)
• Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 49, 1994)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 50-59, Mega-Special #7, 63-66 & 81-83, 1994-95)
• Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 1, 1995)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 1-3, 1995)
• Harke & Burr (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 4-7, 1995)
• Vector 13 (in 2000 AD # 987, 1996)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 17-20, 1996)
• Mean Machine (three episodes in 2000 AD specials, 1995-96)
• Vector 13 (in 2000 AD # 1029 & 1031, 1997)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 26-27, 1997)
• Witch World (in 2000 AD # 1050-1061, 1997)
• Vector 13 (in 2000 AD # 1060, 1067, 1069 & 1072, 1997)
• Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 31-32, 1997)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 34 & 36-38, 1997-98)
• Vector 13 (in 2000 AD # 1076 & 1081-82, 1998)
• Missionary Man (in 2000 AD # 1091-96, 1998)
• Missionary Man (in 2000 AD # 1118-1124, 1998)
• Pulp Sci-Fi (in 2000 AD # 1131, 1146, 1148, 1170, 1172, 1999)
• Glimmer Rats (in 2000 AD prog 2000 & # 1174-1182, 1999-2000)
• Missionary Man (in 2000 AD # 1174-1188, 2000)
• Missionary Man (in 2000 AD # 1201-1204, 2000)
• Rain Dogs (in 2000 AD # 1213-1222, 2000)
• Mean Machine (five episodes in Judge Dredd Megazine, 2000-01)
• Necronauts (in 2000 AD prog 2001 and # 1223-1230, 2000-01)
• Satanus Unchained! (in 2000 AD # 1241-1246, 2001)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 77, 2001)
• Reefer Madness (in 2000 AD # 1263, 2001)
• Storming Heaven (in 2000 AD prog 2002 & # 1273-1278, 2001-02)
• Mars Needs Mates (in 2000 AD # 1285, 2002)
• Missionary Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.4 # 9-13, 2002)
• Judge Dredd
• Rogue Trooper (Series 1, 13 episodes) (in 2000 AD # 1301-1312, 2002)
• Past Imperfect (in 2000 AD # 1316 & 1318, 2002)
• Rogue Trooper (in 2000 AD prog 2003, 2002)
• Caballistics Inc (in 2000 AD prog 2003, # 1322-1326, 1331-1333 & 1337-1340, 2003)
• Rogue Trooper (Series 2, 6 episodes) (in 2000 AD # 1344-49, 2003)
• Bato Loco (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 208, 2003)
• Judge Dredd: Sturm und Dang (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 211-212, 2003)
• Caballistics Inc (in 2000 AD # 1363-68 & prog 2004, 2003)
• Monsters of Rock (in 2000 AD prog 2004, 2003)
• Whatever Happened To? (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 215-16 & 218-19, 2004)
• Rogue Trooper (Series 3, 6 episodes) (in 2000 AD # 1380-85, 2004)
• Cursed Earth Koburn (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 221-223, 2004)
• Caballistics Inc (in 2000 AD # 1400-1408 & prog 2005, 2004)
• Caballistics Inc (in 2000 AD # 1420-1424, 2005)
• Cursed Earth Koburn (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 228, 2005)
• Bato Loco (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 229-230, 2005)
• Johnny Woo (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 231-33, 2005)
• Caballistics Inc (in 2000 AD # 1443-1448, 2005)

Awards

2004 Graphic Novel of the Year, Diamond Comics Awards (for Necronauts)

External links

2004 interview with 2000ADReview