2000 AD: The Creator Interviews, Volume One

by Michael Molcher, Michael Molcher, Mick McMahon

Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this first collection Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith and Mick McMahon discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail.

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2011

Reviews

[Monte · Rating 2 out of 5]

The 'Creator Interview' volumes appear to be limited by their interviews being features for issues of the Dredd Megazine. The interviews do a good job of bringing out the personalities of the creators but the tone of the narrative material - less so in this volume than in others - is too reminiscent of a lifestyle tv show. It's frustrating that points made about the evolving style of an artist or character are not complemented with relevant illustrations - though I appreciate there may be some good reasons for this in some cases. (Illustrations of the creators themselves are also absent - even an old 'art droid' picture would have been good.) Though occasionally illuminating or interesting, the interviews and volumes strike me as neither definitive nor comprehensive and are perhaps best regarded as supplementary to other histories and works of critical appreciation, both official and unofficial.

[Kyle Burley · Rating 3 out of 5]

My current pop-cultural obsession is the British science-fiction anthology comic 2000 AD, so I was pleased to find these interviews. Very illuminating about, not just the origins of 2000 AD, but the British comics industry, in general.

[David Macpherson · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a sad look at a supposedly happy job, making the 2000ad comic book. Three out of the four interviews showed angry, sad, and creepy. Kind of a bummer of a read.