Charlie Adlard

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Charles "Charlie" Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller. He is best known in Britain for his work on White Death with Robbie Morrison and 2000AD series including Judge Dredd, Savage and Armitage.

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 (for Image Comics). He is currently the regular penciller on The Walking Dead.

Other work includes: Mars Attacks! (also for Topps); The Hellfire Club and Warlock 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; and The Establishment for Wildstorm, amongst many others.

Adlard's style has evolved from what was originally fully painted artwork on Armitage, through increasing confidence as a monochrome artist, to his recent work, which uses large blocks of black ink on the page to create shadow effects much more bold than are commonly seen in comics art.

He has received recognition for his work, including a nomination for the Squiddy Award for Best Inker in 2001.

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Judge Dredd:
  • "The Hand of Fate" (with Alan Grant, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 #18, 1992)
  • "Gulag" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1382-1386, 2004)

• Armitage (with Dave Stone):
  • "Influential Circles" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2 10-2.18, 1992)
  • "Flashback" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2 19-2.21, 1993)
  • "Flashback II" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.31-2.33, 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)

• Hellblazer #108.

• The Establishment #1-13 (with Ian Edginton)

• 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 X Files

• Pulp Sci-Fi: "Buzz Tycho's Last Stand" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1146, 1999)

• Batman/Scarface (2001)

• Savage (with Pat Mills):
  • "Savage Book I" (in 2000 AD #1387-1396, 2004)
  • "Savage Book II" (in 2000 AD from #1450, 2005)

• Warheads

• The Walking Dead (#7-Present)

• White Death (with Robbie Morrison)

• FutureQuake #5 (cover artist, Winter 2005)

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD profile
• 2005 Interview with 2000ADReview
• Comic Book Awards Almanac
• Interview with Top Two Three Films
• Interview with Charlie Adlard about his works and comics in general