John Hicklenton

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John Hicklenton (aka John Deadstock) is a British comic artist best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship 2000 AD characters like Judge Dredd (in particular Heavy Metal Dredd) and Nemesis the Warlock during the eighties and nineties.

Hicklenton got his first break when he realised a friend at college was Ron Smith's daughter so he made her a Judge Dredd christmas card. However, regular work remained elusive until, on the advice of his mother, he phoned Pat Mills directly and their working relationship developed from there. He has done other work with Mills including a strip in the now defunct CoolBeansWorld site. He also drew ZombieWorld (as John Deadstock) for Dark Horse Comics, who commissioned him because, as Mills has said "John is the ultimate horror artist . . . I defy anyone to show me an artist whose monsters are more grotesque, whose zombies have a more ghastly look in their eye." [1]

He is scheduled to return to the Judge Dredd Megazine illustrating the third (and possibly the fourth) installment of Mills' "Blood of Satanus".

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Comic work includes:

Tharg's Future Shocks:
- "You're Never Alone With a Phone" (with Neil Gaiman, in 2000 AD #488, 1986)
- "The Invisible Etchings of S Dali" (with Grant Morrison, in 2000 AD #515, 1987)

Nemesis the Warlock (with Pat Mills):
- "The Two Torquemadas (Book VII)" (in 2000 AD #546-557, 1987-1988)
- "Deathbringer (Book IX)" (in 2000 AD #586-593 and #605-608, 1988-1989)

Third World War (with Pat Mills):
- "Here be dragons" (in Crisis #16, 1989)
- "The world according to Ryan" (in Crisis #25, 1989)
- "The Dark other" (in Crisis #29, 1989)
- "The rhythm of resistance" (in Crisis #30, 1989)
- "Black man's burden" (in Crisis #35, 1990)

Rogue Trooper (Friday): "Circus Daze" (with Michael Fleisher, in Rogue Trooper Annual 1991, 1990)

ZombieWorld: "Tree of Death" (with Pat Mills, Dark Horse, 4-issue mini-series, 1999, collected in ZombieWorld: Winter's Dregs, 2005 ISBN 1-59307-384-4)