Charlie Adlard

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Charlie Adlard
Born	1966 Shrewsbury, England
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Penciler, Inker
Notable works	The Walking Dead Savage

Charles "Charlie" Adlard (born 1966) is a British comic book artist and penciller.

He is best known for providing art on The Walking Dead and Savage.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External links 4.1 Interviews

[edit] Biography

Adlard began his work in the UK on White Death with Robbie Morrison and 2000 AD series including Judge Dredd, and Armitage. He has continued working for them with the series Savage.

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; Shadowman for Acclaim Comics; 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.

He illustrated a graphic novel, Playing the Game, written by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.

[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)

• The X-Files (1995-1997)

• Shadowman #5-15 (with Jamie Delano, Acclaim Comics, 1997-1998)

• Hellblazer #108 (with Paul Jenkins, Vertigo)

• The Establishment #1-13 (with Ian Edginton, Wildstorm, 2001-2002)

• 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)

• White Death (with Robbie Morrison, 96 pages, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, 1998 ISBN 1902429001, AiT/Planet Lar, 2002, ISBN 0970936060)

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

• Astronauts in Trouble (with Larry Young, AiT/Planet Lar, 1999-2000)

• Batman/Scarface (2001)

• Savage (with Pat Mills):
  • "Savage Book I" (in 2000 AD #1387-1396, 2004)
  • "Savage Book II" (in 2000 AD #1450-1459, 2005)
  • "Savage Book III" (in 2000 AD from #1526, 2007)

• Warheads

• The Walking Dead (with Robert Kirkman, starting in #7, 2004-ongoing)

• FutureQuake #5 (cover artist, Winter 2005)

[edit] References

• Charlie Adlard at the Comic Book DB
• Charlie Adlard at the Grand Comic-Book Database
• Charlie Adlard at the Big Comic Book DataBase
• 2000 AD profile
• Comic Book Awards Almanac

[edit] External links

• Home page

[edit] Interviews

• 2005 Interview with 2000ADReview
• Interview with Top Two Three Films
• Interview with Charlie Adlard about his works and comics in general