Ian Edginton

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Ian Edginton

Born
Nationality British
Area(s) Writer
Notable works X-Force
Scarlet Traces
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
Leviathan

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: becoming successful in American comics before returning to work for 2000 AD.

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[edit] Biography

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.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series 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 has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

With Dan Abnett he is writing comics based on Warhammer 40,000 [Damnation Crusade and Blood and Thunder)[1] and Warhammer (Forge of War) for Boom! Studios. The most recent is a Warhammer Fantasy series called Condemned by Fire.[2]

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.[3]

Following the World's End event, Edginton will take over the writing of Stormwatch: Post Human Division from issue #13.[4]

[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:

  • "Lachryma 2099" (with David G Klein, in 2099 Unlimited #4, Marvel Comics, 1994)
  • 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, tpb, hardcover, November 2005, ISBN 1-904265-68-5, paperback, November 2007, ISBN 1-905437-49-8)
    • "Twilight of the Idols. The Red Seas Book II" (in 2000 AD prog 2004 & #1371-1379, 2003-2004, tpb, May 2007, 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 #1513-1517, 2006)
    • "War Stories" (in 2000 AD #1562-1566, 2007)
    • "Old Gods" (in 2000 AD #1600-, 2008)
  • Stone Island (with Simon Davis, tpb, 112 pages, February 2008, ISBN 1905437579) collects:
    • "Stone Island" (in 2000 AD #1500-1507, 2006)
    • "The Harrowers" (in 2000 AD #1550-1559, 2007)

[edit] Awards

  • 2007 nominated for the Eisner Awards [14] for:
    • Best Limited Series, The Great Game
    • Best Writer, for his work on The Great Game

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