Roger Langridge

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Example of the world of Fred The Clown
Example of the world of Fred The Clown

Roger Langridge (b. 14th February 1967) is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer, currently living in Britain.

He originally came from the public toilet association and promeced most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane asylum with a cast of characters who by the end had realised that they were in a comic strip and had burst out from the edge of the frame.

Langridge’s cartoony art proved perfect for the series, and he has continued to work for the Megazine, in addition to a series of comedy books dedicated to his Buster Keaton-inspired character Fred the Clown, which he wrote and drew as a webcomic before self-publishing the material as small press titles. These were collected as a single volume by Fantagraphics Books in 2004. His work on Fred the Clown was nominated for two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Langridge also does illustration work.

He has also provided artwork for Shaenon Garrity's Smithson webcomic.

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Comic work includes:

  • Razor #8 Associates in "Searching" (with writer Cornelius Stone (1988)
  • Art d'Ecco (with Andrew Langridge, in Art d'Ecco #1-4, Fantagraphics, 1990-1992)
  • Zoot! (with Andrew Langridge - six issue series, Fantagraphics, 1993-1994)
  • Knuckles the Malevolent Nun (with co-creator Cornelius Stone, in Knuckles #1 & 2, 1991 and A1 (Series 1) #5, 1991)
  • "Frankenstein Meets Shirley Temple" (in A1 (Series 2) #1-4, 1992)
  • The Straitjacket Fits (with David Bishop):
    • "The Straitjacket Fits" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.09-1.20, 1991-1992)
    • "The Final Fit" (in Judge Dredd Yearbook 1993 1992)
  • Fred the Clown, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, 1999.
  • "The Story of a Nut Gone Bad..." (in Flinch #13, DC, 2000)
  • Fred the Clown #1-5, self-published, 2001-2002.
  • "ABE SAPIEN STAR of the B.P.R.D" (with John Arcudi, in Hellboy: Weird Tales, #4, Dark Horse, 2003)
  • Whatever Happened To?: "Cookie" (with Simon Spurrier, in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.17, 2004)
  • Marvel Monsters: "Fin Fang Four" (with Scott Gray, 2005)
  • "Moleman's Christmas" (with Shaenon Garrity, in Marvel Christmas Special #1, Marvel, 2006)
  • "How Fin Fang Foom Saves Christmas " (with Scott Gray, in Marvel Christmas Special 2006 #1, Marvel, 2007)
  • "Return of the Fin Fang Four: Shrink Rap" (with Scott Gray, in Avengers Giant-Size #1, Marvel, 2008)


Collections:

  • Knuckles the Malevolent Nun 1: No More Mrs. Nice Nun, with Cornelius Stone, Antipodes Publishing, 2003.
  • Fred the Clown, Fantagraphics Books, 2004.
  • The Louche and Insalubrious Escapades of Art d'Ecco, with Andrew Langridge, Fantagraphics Books, 2006.

Also illustrated for Doctor Who magazine. He provided one panel humorous images for the Review section. Roger also provides a weekly illustration for the UK TV magazine Inside Soap.

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