Digit’s Jason Walsh chats with comics gossip maven Rich Johnston about the relationship between literary graphic novels and comic books, 2000AD, and the legacy of some U.K. creators from the ’80s:
Walsh: Back in the late 1980s, comics like Crisis tried to break out into the mainstream by tackling difficult subjects in an adult fashion — what happened to the people involved? Do they have a legacy today?
Johnston: Definitely. A lot of the creators went on to greater comics works, from designing the Gorillaz band, to rewriting the rules of the medium, with works like Marshall Law, We3, The Ultimates and NextWave or working behind TV shows such as Lost and Battlestar Galactica. One or two write Eastenders.
Crisis, which was published in Britain by Fleetway from 1988 to 1991, featured work by the likes of Simon Bisley, Phillip Bond, Garth Ennis, Glen Fabry, Duncan Fegredo, Paul Grist, Brendan McCarthy, Mark Millar, Peter Milligan, Grant Morrison and Sean Phillips.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:19 am
CRISIS, and its more tongue-in-cheek little sibling REVOLVER, were great books. Pity they did not last too long.