Garen Ewing

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Garen Ewing (b.1969, England, U.K.) is an illustrator, designer and most famously a comic creator. He started King Rat Press in 1988 with the anthology Cosmorama, which included contributors such as Steve Pugh, David Wyatt, Warren Ellis, Paul H. Birch and Sara Russell. In 1994 he had his full length comic version of Shakespeare's The Tempest published, and a copy resides at the Shakespeare Library, Stratford-upon-Avon. Since then, he has worked as an illustrator and designer. His most recent work, an example of the ligne claire comic form, is a mystery adventure, The Rainbow Orchid, and has received much critical acclaim, including two nominations for a National Comic Award (2004). The book has received both of these despite not even yet being finished. It is still viewable frame by frame on his website.

As an aside, Ewing is a part-time researcher and writer on the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) and was interviewed by Sue Cook on BBC Radio 4's 'Making History' programme in this capacity in October 2004.

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The Tempest - a full book that is a comic adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Captain Powerchord - humour strip appeared in a UK entertainment guide in the early 90's.
Kick like a Girl - A short story drawn for a girls' comic and written by Peter Nagel.
Horatio Pope
A Page for the charity comic Feed America's Children.
The Soldier who Found the Garden of Eden
Football comic images (DC Thompson, The Observer)
Sea Dog - written by Jason Cobley for 'Pirates!'.
The Rainbow Orchid - Ewing's main work. A full and on going story that is to be the first in the 'Julius Chancer' series, set in the 1920s.