Carlos Ezquerra

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Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra (born November 1947, in Zaragoza), who has also worked under the alias L. John Silver, is a Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and currently lives in Andorra. He is best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd.

Ezquerra in 2005.

In the 1970s he worked for Battle Picture Weekly, drawing such strips as Rat Pack, Major Eazy and El Mestizo.

During the development of 2000 AD he created the visual designs for the characters, cityscapes, and technologies for writer John Wagner's character Judge Dredd. Despite creating the character, Wagner and Ezquerra’s original Judge Dredd strip was passed on by editor Pat Mills in favor of a more introductory story by another creative team for the character’s debut, and their original strip would not be used until years later in an annual. However, the first panel in Judge Dredd’s debut strip by the different creative team is actually a drawing by Ezquerra from his original story. Upset by his and Wagner’s Judge Dredd story being passed on for someone else’s work on a character he helped create, Ezquerra left 2000 AD to return to work for Battle Picture Weekly in 1977.

Carlos Ezquerra and John Wagner also created the character Strontium Dog for Starlord in 1978; the strip would later transfer to 2000 AD when Starlord folded. Other 2000 AD strips he drew included Fiends of the Eastern Front and adaptations of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat novels. He would later return to Judge Dredd to draw one of the most infamous mega epics, the Apocalypse War, and would go on to draw some of his most memorable adventures. Always a fan favorite, Ezquerra still draws Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from time to time.

Ezquerra has also collaborated numerous times with writer Garth Ennis on Bloody Mary, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, War Stories, a Hitman annual with artist Steve Pugh, and a 2 part Preacher special The Good Old Boys for DC Comics, and Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Entertainment.

He is currently providing the art for the Judge Dredd epic Origins in 2000 AD.

1 Bibliography
2 Other, non-comic book, work
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

Rat Pack (in Battle Picture Weekly, 1975)
Major Eazy (in Battle Picture Weekly, 1976-78)
El Mestizo (in Battle Picture Weekly, 1977)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 5 & 10, 1977)
Strontium Dog (in Starlord # 1-10, 12-15 & 21-22, 1978)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 86-94 & 104-118, 1978-79)
Rick Random (in 2000 AD # 118, 1979)
A Day in the Life of the Mighty Tharg (in 2000 AD # 129, 1979)
The ABC Warriors (in 2000 AD # 134-36, 1979)
The Stainless Steel Rat (in 2000 AD # 140-151, 1979-80)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 145-46, 1979)
Fiends of the Eastern Front (in 2000 AD # 152-161, 1980)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 155 & 162, 1980)
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (in 2000 AD # 166-177, 1980)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 176-77 & 180-82, 1980)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 178-197, 200-206, 210-221 & 224-233, 1980-81)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 245-267, 279-72, 275-77, 281-88, 291-94 & 296-97, 1982)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 304, 1983)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 309-314, 319-321 & 331-334, 1983)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 335-345, 350-359 & 363-385, 1983-84)
The Stainless Steel Rat for President (in 2000 AD # 393-404, 1984-85)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 416-434, 1985)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 435-36, 1985)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 438-39, 1985)
Strontium Dog (in 1986 2000 AD Annual, 1985)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 443, 1985)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 445-467 & 469-499, 1985-86)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 505-529, 532-536, 1988 2000 AD Annual & # 544-553, 1987)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 560-573, 1988)
Third World War (in Crisis # 1-6, 9-14, 17-18, 20-21, 1988-89)
Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 657-659, 1989)
Judge Dredd: Necropolis and its preludes (in 2000 AD # 669-699, 1990)
Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD Winter Special # 3, 1990)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 711-715 & 719-720, 1990-91)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 733-735, 1991)
Durham Red (in 2000 AD # 762-773 & "1993 Yearbook," 1991-92)
Al's Baby (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # 4-15 1991)
Armageddon: The Bad Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 1-7, 1992)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 788-799, 1992)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 10-11, 1992)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 815, 1992)
Al's Baby (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 16-24 1992-93)
Purgatory (in 2000 AD # 834-841, 1993)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 842-853, 1993)
Janus: Psi-Division (in 2000 AD Winter Special # 5, 1993)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 867-871 & 889-890, 1994)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 58-62, 1994)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 904-915 & 917-918, 1994)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 951-952 & 955-959, 1995)
Bob the Galactic Bum (4 issues, DC Comics, 1995)
Judge Dredd: The Pit (in 2000 AD # 970-983, 987-989 & 992-999, 1995-96)
Bloody Mary (4 issues, DC/Helix, 1996)
Al's Baby (in 2000 AD # 1034-1044, 1997)
Hitman ( in Pulp Heroes Annual #1, DC Comics, 1997)
Bloody Mary: Lady Liberty (4 issues, DC/Helix, 1998)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1101-1110, 1998)
Preacher
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand (with Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Horse, tpb collects Star Wars: Mara Jade - By The Emperor's Hand #1-6, 1999 ISBN 1-56971-401-0)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD prog 2000, # 1174-1180 & 1195-1199, 1999-2000)
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (3 issues, DC/Vertigo, 2000)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1215-1222, 2000)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD Prog 2001, 2000)
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock (3 issues, DC/Vertigo, 2001)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1250-1257 & 1260-1261, 2001)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1280, 2002)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 1300-1307, 2002)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.4 # 15, 2002)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 201, 2003)
The ABC Warriors (in 2000 AD # 1336-1341, 2003)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 1350-1358, 2003)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 211-212, 2003)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1378-1381, 2004)
Cursed Earth Koburn (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 221-223, 2004)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD # 1400-1403 & 1406-1415, 2004)
Cursed Earth Koburn (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 228, 2005)
The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin (5 issues, DC/Wildstorm, 2005)
Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 231-234, 2005)
Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 1452, 2005)
Strontium Dog (in 2000 AD Prog 2006 & # 1469-1472, 2005-06)
Cursed Earth Koburn (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 239 & 241-244, 2005-06)

[edit] Other, non-comic book, work

Drew the artwork on the header cards for Corgi model's range of X-Ploratron Die-cast models. (Diecast Collector Magazine, September 2006 issue, page 38)^[1]

The four X-Ploratron models were;

Corgi Model Number 2022; "X4 Scanotron"
Corgi Model Number 2023; "X1 Rocketron"
Corgi Model Number 2024; "X2 Lasertron"
Corgi Model Number 2026; "X3 Magnetron"

It is unknown if Ezquerra was given full details on the function of each X-Ploratron model or the abilities, or was simply just sent the models and asked to draw a short, four panel comic strip about them, as on some he appears to have added extra powers / features not present in the actual models themselves.