Here’s some more comics kindness: The Forbidden Planet blog celebrates the career of Brett Ewins in the wake of both his recent personal problems and 2000AD‘s 35th birthday. The tributes – both in words and pictures – from all manner of British comic professionals past and present highlight the impressive body of work Ewins has, something that is often overlooked by a lot of people, entirely unfairly. Even though the retrospective concentrates on Ewins’ 2000AD work, I’d argue that his biggest contributions are outside of that title, with the co-creation of Deadline magazine (with Steve Dillon, another artist who deserves some kind of critical reconsideration; I feel like these days, he’s known for Preacher and Punisher, and his earlier career is forgotten – He’s been doing amazing stuff for decades, including Laser Eraser and Pressbutton and editing Deadline) and books like Strange Days and Johnny Nemo. Go, look at the tributes. If nothing else, you’ll come away with a new appreciation for a constantly, unfairly underrated creator.

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