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About MeAlan Grant
Category: Writing Tags: 2000AD, Comics-----
I never met Alan Grant but he’s been there all my life. As a writer on comic 2000AD, and others, he was there in the background. Yesterday came the sad news of his passing. I grew up on comics, 2000AD in particular. And that lasted through my teens and, well, ever since.
It was the 2000AD “credit card” which first made him and other comic creators known to me. While DC Thomson didn’t provide credit for their artists and writers, 2000AD started to. Thus, as a kid, I could associate names with strips. Alan was anti-authoritarian, darkly humorous; all this showing in Judge Dredd and Robo-Hunter.
But it was his work on Judge Anderson which showed a melancholy, as the character suffered a loss and went on a spiritual journey. That stuck with me.
In the 90s, especially, I needed it.
He’ll be missed.
Additional Intel
I use British English spelling and idioms, if you tend to worry about that sort of thing.
Additionally I'm Scottish, so 'outwith' is unquestionably a real word. As is 'drookit', 'puggled' and 'numpty'. I am occasionally all three of those.
I created this site using a combination of W3 CSS, Jekyll, Emacs and my inability to enjoy web development IDEs.
Claims to Fame
My name is in the very first paragraph of the first page of the first GTA design document*. (Excluding cover and table of contents. I mean, right?)
I directed Britain's first ever Star Trek fan film, which we started production of in 2003 and released in 2007. We're still making episodes: Starship Intrepid