Ian Edginton

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Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer. He is one of the few British comic talents to follow the reverse trajectory to the one usually taken - he started with American comics and eventually ended up working for 2000 AD.

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. He has created a couple of new serries with D'Israeli including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he is also producing a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

Novels include:

  • Zool Rules: the Alien Ninja from the Nth Dimension (Pan Macmillan, 1994 ISBN 0-7522-0952-3)

[edit] Comics

Comics work includes:

  • Planet of the Apes (for Dark Horse):
    • "Human Wars" (with pencils by Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Juan Vlasco, Norman Lee, Christopher Ivy, 2001)
    • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 1: Old Gods" (with pencils by Adrian Sibar, Paco Medina; and inks by Norman Lee, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)
    • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 2: Blood Lines" (with co-writer Dan Abnett, with pencils by Sanford Greene, Pop Mhan, Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Norman Lee, Pop Mhan, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)
  • The Red Seas (with Steve Yeowell):
    • "Under the Banner of King Death. The Red Seas Book I" (in 2000 AD #1313-1321, 2002, ISBN 1-904265-68-5)
    • "Twilight of the Idols. The Red Seas Book II" (in 2000 AD prog 2004 & #1371-1379, 2003-2004, ISBN 1-904265-72-3)
    • "Meanwhile..." (in 2000 AD #1416-1419, 2004)
    • "Underworld. The Red Seas Book III" (in 2000 AD #1460-1468, 2005)
    • "The Hollow Land" (in 2000 AD #1491-1499, 2006)
    • "With a bound he was free..." (in 2000 AD #1513-ongoing, 2006)
  • Interceptor (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD # 1337-1345, 2003)
  • Leviathan (with D'Israeli):
    • "Leviathan" (in 2000 AD #1351-1360, 2003)
    • "Chosen Son" (in 2000 AD prog 2005, 2004)
    • "McLean's Last Case" (in 2000 AD #1465, 2005)
    • "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (in 2000 AD #1466, 2005)

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Preceded by
John Francis Moore		 X-Force (vol. 1) writer
2000–2001		 Succeeded by
Peter Milligan
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