| I Was a Teenage Tax Conultant | |||
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| Created by | John Wagner Ian Gibson | ||
| Publication information | |||
| Publisher | Originally IPC Media (Fleetway) until 1999, thereafter Rebellion Developments | ||
| Schedule | Weekly | ||
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| Genre | |||
| Publication date | July – September 1997 | ||
| Creative team | |||
| Writer(s) | John Wagner | ||
| Artist(s) | Ian Gibson | ||
| Creator(s) | John Wagner Ian Gibson | ||
| Editor(s) | Tharg (David Bishop) | ||
I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant is a series published in the British comic anthology 2000 AD in 1997. It was created by John Wagner and Ian Gibson and was advertised as one of the strangest stories ever published in 2000 AD. [1] The series was originally scripted in 1991 and is, unlike most series published in 2000 AD, creator-owned.
2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary, which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 and then to Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until 2000, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments.
John Wagner is an American-born British comics writer. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. He is best known as the co-creator, with artist Carlos Ezquerra, of the character Judge Dredd.
Ian Gibson is a British comic book artist, best known for his 1980s black-and-white work for 2000 AD, especially as the main artist on Robo-Hunter and The Ballad of Halo Jones, as well as his long run on Judge Dredd.
The opening splash page doubles an imitation film poster that includes billings for the characters and creators as well as a notice that the artwork is in “Superwidestrip”, a spoof of 1950s widescreen film formats like CinemaScope. The artwork for I Was a Teenage Tax Consultant was not completed before the comic changed size to A4 so every page had to include a banner across the top of each page. [2]
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature photographs of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, etc.
CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen movies that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter. Its creation in 1953 by Spyros P. Skouras, the president of 20th Century Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.
