Ian Edginton

Ian Edginton
Born
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	X-Force Scarlet Traces H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Leviathan

Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer. He is one of the few British comic talents to follow the reverse trajectory to the one usually taken: becoming successful in American comics before returning to work for 2000 AD.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.2 Comics 3 Awards 4 References 4.1 Footnotes 5 External links

Biography

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005). His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career. With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh. He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

Novels include:

• Zool Rules: the Alien Ninja from the Nth Dimension (Pan Macmillan, 1994 ISBN 0-7522-0952-3)

Comics

Comics work includes:

• "God's Little Acre" (with D'Israeli, in Revolver #2, 1990)
• Strange Cases (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.8, 1991)
• Aliens:
  • Rogue (with Will Simpson, 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1993, trade paperback, 112 pages, 1995, ISBN 1-56971-023-6, 1997, ISBN 1-56971-267-0)
  • "Purge" (with Phil Hester (pencils) and Ande Parks (inks), one-shot, Dark Horse, 1997)
• Predator:
  • "Rite of Passage" (with Rick Leonardi (pencils) and Dan Panosian (inks), in Dark Horse Comics #1-2, collected in "Jungle Tales" one-shot, 1995)
  • "Xenogenesis" (with Mel Rubi (pencils) and Andrew Pepoy (inks), 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1999)
• Ultraforce #2, 5-9 (with co-authors Warren Ellis (2, 5-7) and Dan Abnett (8-9); and various artists including Darick Robertson and Gary Erskine (8-9), Malibu Comics, 1995-1996)
• Foxfire (with co-author Dan Abnett, and art by Kevin West, 4-issue mini-series, Malibu Comics, 1996)
• Seeker 3000 (with co-author Dan Abnett, pencils by Andrew Currie, and with inks by Hector Collazo and Andy Lanning, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 1998)
• Alien vs. Predator:
  • Eternal (with Alex Maleev, 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1998, tpb, 88 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-409-6)
  • "Pursuit" (with Mel Rubi, and Rob Hunter, in Annual #1, 1999)
  • "The Web" (with Derek Thompson, and Brian O'Connell, Dark Horse Presents #146-147, 1999)
• Batman:
  • No Man's Land Volume 2 (with D'Israeli, tpb, 2000, ISBN 1-56389-599-4)
  • Batman/Aliens 2 (with Staz Johnson, DC, 2003, ISBN 1-4012-0081-8)
• Xena: Warrior Princess (with pencils by Mike Deodato Jr. and inks by Neil Nelson, #9-14, for Dark Horse, 2000)
• X-Force (with co-author Warren Ellis; Art: Whilce Portacio, Lan Medina Marvel, 2000)
• "The Max Rebo Band in “A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!”" (with Mark Martin & Rick Neilsen, in Star Wars Tales 6, 2000)
• Planet of the Apes (for Dark Horse):
  • "Human Wars" (with pencils by Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Juan Vlasco, Norman Lee, Christopher Ivy, 2001)
  • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 1: Old Gods" (with pencils by Adrian Sibar, Paco Medina; and inks by Norman Lee, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)
  • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 2: Blood Lines" (with co-writer Dan Abnett, with pencils by Sanford Greene, Pop Mhan, Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Norman Lee, Pop Mhan, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)
• The Establishment (with Charlie Adlard, 13 issue run Wildstorm, 2001-2002)
• Starfleet Corps of Engineers: "Caveat Emptor" (with Mike Collins, ebook, 2002, tpb No Surrender, 2003)
• Scarlet Traces (with D'Israeli):
  • Scarlet Traces (in Judge Dredd Megazine #4.16-4.18, 2002, tpb, Dark Horse, 2003, ISBN 1-56971-940-3)
  • The Great Game (4-issue mini-series, 2006, tpb, Dark Horse, 104 pages, April 30, 2007, ISBN 1-59307-717-3)
• Sojourn #25-34 (with Greg Land, CrossGen, 2002-2004):
  • Sojourn, Volume 5: A Sorcerer's Tale (tpb, collects Sojourn #25-30, Checker Book Publishing, March 2007, ISBN 1-933160-44-6)
  • Sojourn, Volume 6: Berserker's Tale (tpb, includes Sojourn #31-34, Checker Book Publishing, January 2008, ISBN 1-933160-72-1)
• Scion (CrossGen, 2002-2004)
• The Red Seas (with Steve Yeowell):
  • "Under the Banner of King Death. The Red Seas Book I" (in 2000 AD #1313-1321, 2002, tpb, hardcover, November 2005, ISBN 1-904265-68-5, paperback, November 2007, ISBN 1-905437-49-8)
  • "Twilight of the Idols. The Red Seas Book II" (in 2000 AD prog 2004 & #1371-1379, 2003-2004, tpb, May 2007, ISBN 1-904265-72-3)
  • "Meanwhile..." (in 2000 AD #1416-1419, 2004)
  • "Underworld. The Red Seas Book III" (in 2000 AD #1460-1468, 2005)
  • "The Hollow Land" (in 2000 AD #1491-1499, 2006)
  • "With a bound he was free..." (in 2000 AD #1513-1517, 2006)
  • "War Stories" (in 2000 AD #1562-ongoing, 2007)
• Interceptor (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD # 1337-1345, 2003)
• Leviathan (with D'Israeli):
  • "Leviathan" (in 2000 AD #1351-1360, 2003, hardcover, 64 pages, October 2006, ISBN 1-904265-65-0)
  • "Chosen Son" (in 2000 AD prog 2005, 2004)
  • "McLean's Last Case" (in 2000 AD #1465, 2005)
  • "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (in 2000 AD #1466, 2005)
• Judge Dredd:
  • "Inside Job" (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD #1363-1364, 2003)
  • "Tempus Fugitive" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1390, 2004)
  • "Time and Again" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1475, 2006)
  • "Heist" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1480-1481, 2006)
  • "Time's Squared" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1551, 2007)
• Witchblade #78-79: "Signs and Portents" (with art by Tony Daniel, Top Cow, 2004)
• Kingdom of the Wicked (with D'Israeli, graphic novel for Dark Horse, 2004, ISBN 1-59307-187-6) [1]
• Richard Matheson's Hell House (with Simon Fraser, IDW, 2005, 4 issue mini-series, tpb)
• American Gothic (with Mike Collins, in 2000 AD #1432-1440, 2005)
• "Honor Bound" (with Steve Pugh, in Star Wars Tales 22, 2005)
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (with D'Israeli, Dark Horse e-comic and graphic novel 2006 ISBN 1-59307-474-3) [2]
• Rogue Trooper: "New Model Army" (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD #1477-1479, 2006)
• Stone Island (with Simon Davis, collected as tpb, 112 pages, February 2008, ISBN 1905437579):
  • "Stone Island" (in 2000 AD #1500-1507, 2006)
  • "The Harrowers" (in 2000 AD #1550-1559, 2007)
• Hellgate: London (with Steve Pugh, 3-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 2006-2007, ongoing, tpb, 104 pages, June 27, 2007, ISBN 1-59307-681-9)
• Stickleback (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD, prog 2007 and #1518, 2006-2007)
• Warhammer 40,000 (with co-writer Dan Abnett, Boom! Studios):
  • Damnation Crusade (with art by Lui Antonio and JM Ringuet, 6-issue mini-series, December 2006-2007, trade paperback, July 2007, ISBN 142760679X))
  • "Blood and Thunder" (with art by Daniel Lapham, 4-issue mini-series, December 2007, forthcoming)^[2]
• Warhammer: "Forge of War" (with co-writer Dan Abnett and with art by Tommy Castillo, 6-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, April 2007, ongoing)
• Detonator X (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1534-1543, 2007)
• Nevermore: "Murder in the Rue Morgue" (with D'Israeli, graphic novel adaptation, Eye Classics, Self Made Hero, October 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552856-8-4)^[3]
• Angelus: Pilot Season #1 (with Stjepan Sejic, one-shot, Top Cow Productions , December 2007)^[1]

Awards

• 2007 nominated for the Eisner Awards ^[4] for:
  • Best Limited Series, The Great Game
  • Best Writer, for his work on The Great Game

References

• Interrogation: Ian Edginton (interviewed by Matthew Badham, in Judge Dredd Megazine #247, 2006)
• Ian Edginton at the Grand Comic-Book Database
• Ian Edginton at the Comic Book DB
• 2000AD profile page
• Dark Horse profile

Footnotes

External links

• Interview with 2000adreview.co.uk
• Edginton Lifts Off with “Warhammer 40,000”, Comic Book Resources, November 17, 2006

Preceded by John Francis Moore

X-Force (vol. 1) writer 2000–2001

Succeeded by Peter Milligan