P. J. Holden

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P. J. Holden
Born	December 28, 1969 (1969-12-28) (age 38) Northern Ireland
Nationality	Northern Irish
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	The 86ers

Paul Jason Holden (b. 28 December 1969) is a Northern Irish comic artist based in Belfast.

He has worked for 2000 AD, Warhammer Monthly, and Judge Dredd Megazine. Among other stories for these publications, he has provided the art for Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd and Johnny Woo.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links 5.1 Interviews

[edit] Biography

First published by Fantagraphics in 1997 (Holy Cross #3) with Malachy Coney and provided art for a story with Mike Carey from Caliber in 1997.

Not professionally published again until 2000 AD (Judge Dredd "Sino-Cit") in 2001 - has been working professionally since. This work has included further stints on Judge Dredd and most recently becoming the main artist on The 86ers, taking over for the third instalment of the first story.

He has a long history within the British small press comics, amongst other things providing the early covers for FutureQuake, and this has continued until today with his providing forums to small press publishers on his Pencil Monkey message board. He has recently collected all his small press work into a single volume, Previously.^[1]

He is finishing Fearless for Image Comics, with Mark Sable and Dave Roth.^[2][3]

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Fantagraphics (with Malachy Coney):
  • Holy Cross #3
  • The Moon Looked Down and Laughed with
  • The DandyLion

• "Suicide Kings" (with Mike Carey, Caliber Comics, 1997)

• Mega-City One: "The Burning Red" (with Simon Spurrier, in Zarjaz volume 1 #1, 2001)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Sino-Town" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1233, 2001)
  • "Unnatural Selection" (with Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #1278, 2002)
  • "Waiting" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1312, 2002)
  • "Meet the Flooks" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1359, 2003)
  • "Dead Man Walking" (with Jonathan Clements, in Judge Dredd Megazine #226, 2004)
  • "The Magnificent Umbersons" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #235, 2005)
  • "Warzone" (with John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Megazine #240-243, 2006)
  • "House of Pain" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1488-1490, 2006)
  • "Sanctuary" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1495, 2006)

• Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • "Alpha Team" (with Simon Spurrier, in 2000 AD #1262, 2001)
  • "Skeleton Key" (with Richard McTighe, in 2000 AD #1276, 2002)
  • "Autocrats Anonymous" (with Jaspre Bark, in 2000 AD #1370, 2003)

• Rogue Trooper: "Realpolitik" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1380-1385, 2004)

• "The Cut Above" (in FutureQuake #2, 2004)

• Johnny Woo: "A Bullet In The Head" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #231-233, 2005)

• Origins of the Cadre #2 (with Mat Nastos and Andrew Pellerito, Nifty Comics, 2005)

• The 86ers (with Gordon Rennie):
  • "Touchdown" (in 2000 AD #1482-1485, 2006)
  • "Interference" (in 2000 AD #1508-1510, 2006)
  • "Walking to Eternity" (in 2000 AD prog 2007, 2006)
  • "Grendel" (in 2000 AD #1544-1549, 2007)

• Fearless (with Mark Sable and Dave Roth, Image Comics, 2007-ongoing)
• Dead Signal (with Al Ewing, in 2000 AD #1581-ongoing, 2008)

Covers work includes:

• FutureQuake #1, 2003
• FutureQuake #2, 2004
• FutureQuake #3, 2004

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• P. J. Holden at the Comic Book DB
• 2000AD profile

[edit] External links

• Official homepage
• P.J. Holden at MySpace
• Mailing list, where he will be posting updates on work as it comes off the drawing board

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[edit] Interviews

• Interview with Richmond Clements