Charlie Adlard

Charlie Adlard
Charlie Adlard at Lucca Comics & Games 2016
Born	Charles Adlard 4 August 1966 Shrewsbury, England
Area(s)	Penciller
Notable works	The Walking Dead Savage Codeflesh
Awards	Inkpot Award (2012) [1]
Official website

Charles Adlard (born 4 August 1966) is a British comic book artist known for his work on books such as The Walking Dead and Savage .

Career

Adlard began his work in the UK on White Death with Robbie Morrison and 2000 AD series including Judge Dredd , and Armitage . He has continued working for them with the series Savage .^{[ citation needed ]}

In the United States he is best known for his work on The X-Files (for Topps), Astronauts in Trouble (for AiT/Planet Lar) and The Walking Dead ^[2] (for Image Comics).

He has been the penciller on The Walking Dead since 2004. ^[3]

Other work includes: Mars Attacks! (also for Topps); The Hellfire Club and Warlock ^[4] for Marvel Comics; Batman: Gotham Knights and Green Lantern/Green Arrow for DC Comics; White Death for Les Cartoonistes Dangereux; Blair Witch: Dark Testaments and Codeflesh for Image; Shadowman for Acclaim Comics; and The Establishment for Wildstorm, among many others.^{[ citation needed ]}

He illustrated a graphic novel, Playing the Game , written by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. In 1992, he collaborated with best-selling horror writer, Guy N. Smith Crabs' Fury . The one-shot was re-released as a limited edition in September 2008 through Ghostwriter Publications^{[ citation needed ]}.

In 2012, Adlard was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #100, which was released 11 July at San Diego Comic-Con. ^[5]

Bibliography

• Judge Dredd :
  • "The Hand of Fate" (with Alan Grant, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 1 #18, March 1992)
  • "War Games" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1153-1159, July–September 1999)
  • "Endgame" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1160-1164, September–October 1999)
  • "The Satanist" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1350-1356, July–September 2003)
  • "Gulag" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1382-1386, 2004)
• Warheads: Black Dawn (pencils, with writer Craig Huston and inks by James Hodgkins, 2-issue mini-series, Marvel UK, 1992)
• Armitage (with Dave Stone):
  • "Influential Circles" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #10-18, 1992)
  • "Flashback" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #19-21, 1993)
  • "Flashback II" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #31-33, 1993)
• Judge Hershey : "Hershey & Steel - Degenomancer" (with Dave Stone, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #35-36, 1993)
• Rogue Trooper (Friday): "Angels" (with Steve White, in 2000 AD #950-52, 1995)
• The X-Files #1-16, 18–19, 22–23, and 27-29 (with Stefan Petrucha and John Rozum, Topps Comics, 1995–1997)
• The Crow: Wild Justice (with Jerry Prosser, Kitchen Sink Press, 1996)
• Shadowman #5-15 (with Jamie Delano, Acclaim Comics, 1997–1998)
• Hellblazer #108 (with Paul Jenkins, Vertigo)
• The Establishment #1-13 (with Ian Edginton, Wildstorm, 2001–2002)
• Nikolai Dante (with Robbie Morrison):
  • "The Full Dante" (in 2000 AD #1071, 1997)
  • "Masque of Dante" (in 2000 AD #1125-1127, 1999)
  • "Tour of Duty" (in 2000 AD #1131-1133, 1999)
  • "Fists of Fury" (in 2000 AD #1141, 1999)
  • "Last Dance of the Trans-Siberian" (in 2000 AD #1142-1143, 1999)
  • "The BandyMan" ( with Stephan Petrucha and Jill Thompson Caliber Comics ,1996)
• White Death (with Robbie Morrison, 96 pages, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, 1998, ISBN   1-902429-00-1, AiT/Planet Lar, 2002, ISBN   0-9709360-6-0, Image Comics, 2014, ISBN   978-1-63215-142-1)
• Pulp Sci-Fi : "Buzz Tycho's Last Stand" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1146, 1999)
• Astronauts in Trouble (with Larry Young, AiT/Planet Lar, 1999–2000)
• Batman/Scarface (2001)
• Thunderbolts: Life Sentences #1 (Marvel, 2001)
• Codeflesh (with Joe Casey, in Double Image /Double Take #1-8, Image Comics, 2001–2002, softcover, Codeflesh, 144 pages, AiT/Planet Lar, November 2003, ISBN   1-932051-15-5, hardcover, Codeflesh: The Definitive Edition, 128 pages, Image Comics, March 2009, ISBN   1-60706-077-9)
• Savage (with Pat Mills):
  • "Savage Book I" (in 2000 AD #1387-1396, 2004)
  • "Savage Book II" (in 2000 AD #1450-1459, 2005)
  • "Savage Book III" (in 2000 AD #1526-1535, February–May 2007)
• Warlock (vol. 5) (with Greg Pak, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2004)
• The Walking Dead #7-193 (with Robert Kirkman, Image Comics, 2004–2019)
• Rock Bottom (with Joe Casey, graphic novel, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN   1-932051-45-7) ^[6]
• Le Souffle du Wendigo (Breath of the Wendigo) (with Mathieu Misoffe, Soleil Productions, February 2009, ISBN   2-302-00482-5)
• Playing the Game (graphic novel by Doris Lessing, 1995)

Covers

• FutureQuake #5 (cover artist, Winter 2005)

Gen 13 Bootleg #20 cover artist July 1998

References

1. Inkpot Award
2. Contino, Jennifer (7 September 2004). "Charlie Adlard Pt 2 The Walking Dead". Comicon.com . Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
3. "Walking Dead Artist Charlie Adlard Fashions Own Survival of the Dead Poster". dreadcentral.com . 5 April 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
4. Contino, Jennifer M. (9 February 2004). "Adlard Warlock & Walking Dead Pt 1". Comicon.com . Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2004.
5. Logan, Michael (4 June 2012). "Exclusive First Look: The Walking Dead Comic Hits 100". TV Guide . CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
6. That Heavy Feeling: Casey & Adlard's "Rock Bottom", Comic Book Resources, 22 August 2006.

Links

• Charlie Adlard at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original )
• Charlie Adlard at the Grand Comics Database
• Charlie Adlard ^{[ permanent dead link ]} at the Big Comic Book DataBase
• Charlie Adlard Archived 13 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine at 2000 AD online
• Comic Book Awards Almanac

Interviews

• Incoherentboy Chats With…Charlie Adlard – Part I Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine , incoherentboy.com, 14 October 2012
• artINTERVIEWS with Charlie Adlard, artinterviews.tumblr.com (2010)
• 2005 Interview, 2000ADReview.co.uk (2005)
• Interview with Charlie Adlard about his works and comics in general, web.archive.org; accessed 7 July 2017.
• Charlie Adlard: giving life to the zombies of the Walking Dead ^{[ dead link ]}, The Times , 6 July 2009.
• Interview, imaginedaily.com; accessed 7 July 2017.