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- John Wagner is a comic book writer who most notably helped to revitalise British comics with Pat Mills. He also helped to co-create the character Arnold Wesker with Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle.
- Wagner regrets killing off some of the characters he created so readily, and would think longer about doing the same again. He prefers to write his own characters, feeling more comfortable writing to his own rules.
- In the comics field, Wagner is most famous for his co-creation of Judge Dredd with writer Pat Mills and artist Carlos Esquiere in the pages of premiere UK comics anthology 2000 AD in 1978. He has also worked extensively in the American comics market, most notably with DC Comics' Batman on numerous series. Wagner recently gained much acclaim when his comics series A History of Violence was adapted into the critically acclaimed film of the same name starring actor Vigo Mortensen.
- John Wagner ist ein britischer Autor. Für das Doctor Who Magazine schrieb er gemeinsam mit Pat Mills folgende Comic-Geschichten:
* The Iron Legion
* City of the Damned
* The Star Beast
* The Dogs of Doom
- John Wagner is a freelance comic book writer. He has written several Star Wars comic books for Dark Horse Comics. He is also notable for co-creating Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and for penning the graphic novel A History of Violence.
- Born in the United States and brought up in Scotland, he started his career in editorial with D. C. Thomson & Co. in the late 1960s, before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s. He has worked in children's humour and girls' adventure comics, but is most notable for his work in boys' adventure comics, including helping to launch Battle Picture Weekly (1975), for which he wrote "Darkie's Mob", and 2000 AD (1977), for which he created numerous characters, including "Judge Dredd", "Strontium Dog", "Robo-Hunter" and "Button Man". In the 1980s, he and co-writer Alan Grant wrote prolifically for IPC's boys' comics, including 2000 AD, Battle, Eagle, Scream! and Roy of the Rovers, and also wrote Batman for DC Comics in the US, a series of Batman/Judge Dredd team-up com
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- John Wagner is a comic book writer who most notably helped to revitalise British comics with Pat Mills. He also helped to co-create the character Arnold Wesker with Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle.
- Wagner regrets killing off some of the characters he created so readily, and would think longer about doing the same again. He prefers to write his own characters, feeling more comfortable writing to his own rules.
- Born in the United States and brought up in Scotland, he started his career in editorial with D. C. Thomson & Co. in the late 1960s, before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s. He has worked in children's humour and girls' adventure comics, but is most notable for his work in boys' adventure comics, including helping to launch Battle Picture Weekly (1975), for which he wrote "Darkie's Mob", and 2000 AD (1977), for which he created numerous characters, including "Judge Dredd", "Strontium Dog", "Robo-Hunter" and "Button Man". In the 1980s, he and co-writer Alan Grant wrote prolifically for IPC's boys' comics, including 2000 AD, Battle, Eagle, Scream! and Roy of the Rovers, and also wrote Batman for DC Comics in the US, a series of Batman/Judge Dredd team-up comics, and the British independent comic The Bogie Man. His 1997 graphic novel A History of Violence was made into a film by David Cronenberg. He continues to write for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, including "Judge Dredd" and "Strontium Dog".
- In the comics field, Wagner is most famous for his co-creation of Judge Dredd with writer Pat Mills and artist Carlos Esquiere in the pages of premiere UK comics anthology 2000 AD in 1978. He has also worked extensively in the American comics market, most notably with DC Comics' Batman on numerous series. Wagner recently gained much acclaim when his comics series A History of Violence was adapted into the critically acclaimed film of the same name starring actor Vigo Mortensen.
- John Wagner ist ein britischer Autor. Für das Doctor Who Magazine schrieb er gemeinsam mit Pat Mills folgende Comic-Geschichten:
* The Iron Legion
* City of the Damned
* The Star Beast
* The Dogs of Doom
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- John Wagner is a freelance comic book writer. He has written several Star Wars comic books for Dark Horse Comics. He is also notable for co-creating Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and for penning the graphic novel A History of Violence.
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