John Burns (comics)

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John Burns (sometimes John M. Burns) is a British comic artist, with a career stretching back to the mid-1960's.

During the 1960s, Burns worked on TV Century 21 and its sister magazines, including the Space Family Robinson series in "Lady Penelope".

He moved on to illustrate TV tie-in strips for now-defunct title Look-in, always scripted by Angus P. Allan, Burns was already well-known by the start of the 1980's. He also worked on the title story for Countdown (comic). For a while he drew the strip Modesty Blaise.

It was when he made the crossover to 2000AD, along with fellow Look-in alumni Jim Baikie and Arthur Ranson, that his position as one of the British comics greats was truly cemented.

Burns began by working on Judge Dredd, a strip to which he continues to contribute to this day. By his own admission (in a 2004 interview with David Bishop in the Judge Dredd Megazine), Burns does not enjoy drawing science fiction strips, and the look of Judge Dredd is one that he finds particularly unpleasant to draw: this is ironic, as his version has drawn much reader acclaim.

Recently, Burns lobbied to work on the Nikolai Dante strip, and has proved so successful that he is now considered the lead artist on the story. He has also co-created (with Robbie Morrison) a contemporary adventure strip, the Bendatti Vendetta, for the Megazine. this is unique for the title in having no science fiction or fantasy elements at all.

Burns' recent work is fully painted, and can seem old-fashioned but very solidly crafted.

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Garbage Disposal" (with Garth Ennis, in 2000 AD #738, 1991)
  • "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (with Garth Ennis, in 2000 AD #754-756, 1991)
  • "Raider" (with Garth Ennis, in 2000 AD #810-814, 1992)
  • "Part Exchange" (with Dan Abnett, in 2000 AD #903, 1994)
  • "Revenge of the Chief Judge's Man" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1342-1349, 2003)
  • "Bite Fight!" (with John Smith, in Judge Dredd Megazine #224-225, 2004)

• Black Light: "Survivor Syndrome" (with Dan Abnett/Steve White, in 2000 AD #1001-1005, 1996)

• Nikolai Dante (with Robbie Morrison):
  • "Cruel Seas" (in 2000 AD #1148-1149, 1999)
  • "Requiem for Lost Love" (in 2000 AD #1150, 1999)
  • "Rudinshtein Irregulars " (in 2000 AD #1183-1190, 2000)
  • "Love and War" (in 2000 AD #1200-1207, 2000)
  • "One Last Night in the House of Sin" (in 2000 AD prog 2001, 2000)
  • "The Romanov Empire" (in 2000 AD #1250-1262, 2001)
  • "Hell and High Water" (in 2000 AD prog 2003 & #1322-1328, 2002-2003)
  • "The Sea Falcon" (in 2000 AD prog 2004, 2003)
  • "Agent of Destruction" (in 2000 AD prog 2005 & #1420-1427, 2004-2005)
  • "How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life?" (in 2000 AD #1428-1431, 2005)
  • "Primal Screams" (in 2000 AD #1433-1436, 2005)
  • "Devil's Deal" (in 2000 AD prog 2006, 2005)
  • "Usurper" (in 2000 AD #1487-1489, 2006)
  • "The Depths" (in 2000 AD #1500-1501, 2006)
  • "Dragon's Island" (in 2000 AD #1502-1507, 2006)

• The Scarlet Apocrypha: "Necrocultura" (with Dan Abnett, in Judge Dredd Megazine #4.12, 2002)

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD profile