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| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Colorist |
Notable works | Bad Company Bix Barton |
| Collaborators | Brett Ewins Peter Milligan |
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Jim McCarthy is a British writer and artist. He became well known for working on the comic Bad Company in 2000 AD before going on to write a number of graphic novels based on musicians, as well as becoming a music journalist.
He is the brother of Brendan McCarthy. [1]
Jim McCarthy studied art at Ealing College, leaving in 1975 and working as an artist in Europe for three years. Travelling to Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and various parts of the UK. Jim produced graphics and cartoons for industry practices for a period of over three years. [2]
He started at 2000 AD in 1977 and 1978 on Tharg's Future Shocks , sharing art duties with Brett Ewins, a partnership that would continue on his return in 1986 for their long run on Bad Company with Peter Milligan. He would work solo with Milligan, again, on their occult detective series Bix Barton , and McCarthy would work steadily at 2000 AD throughout this period until 1996, briefly returning in 2001 and 2002 to draw more Future Shocks.
McCarthy would return to comics full-time in 2003 writing the first of a number of biographical graphic novels, including Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic, that was re-released in digest form in 2011, [3] [4] and Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel. [5] The NME reported that the former "had proved both controversial and commercially successful. Beaumont [the artist] received death threats from irate fans before Godspeed was even published". [6]
He also writes about music, his first piece was about Jah Wobble whom he met when they were both in rehab, [7] and he has since gone on to write a book on Latin rock. [8]
In 2004 he wrote The Voices Of Latin Rock, a book dealing with the Mission District in San Francisco, and the fusion of Latin, salsa and rock for over 30 years. I have authored numerous graphic novels and created comic graphic artwork being published in both the US and UK markets. Subsequently, my work has been translated and published in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Norway, Italy, Poland, France, Croatia, Germany, Argentina and Japan.
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Bad Company was launched as a comic in 1988 by Ewins, Milligan and Jim McCarthy, brother of Brendan, a Dredd artist
Last year, the surviving members of the original Santana band played together at Bimbo's for the first time in more than 20 years. The event began in 2004 as a publication party for a book, "Voices of Latin Rock", by authors Jim McCarthy, a British music journalist, and Ron Sansoe, Gonzalez's partner in managing Malo.
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