The Art of

COMING SOON!

The 2000 AD Art of Mick McMahon: Apex Edition is a gloriously oversized collection of some of McMahon’s best pages from 2000 AD. His legendary work on Slaine is showcased with art from ‘Warriors Dawn, ‘Heroes Blood’, and the incredible ‘Sky Chariots’. Also represented here are his Ro-Busters and A.B.C. Warriors eras, the climactic pages from ‘Judge Dredd: The Return of Rico’, the entirety of Superbean, and the complete opening episode of The V.C.’s, along with his V.C. character designs which were used by Cam Kennedy and Garry Leach for artistic continuity. The concluding section of this book exhibits colour pages from his Judge Dredd Annual stories, including the complete ‘The Fear that Made Milwaukee Famous’, and select pages from throughout The Last American.

Michael (known as Mike or Mick) McMahon studied graphic design and illustration at Chelsea School of Art. He showed samples to the editor of Battle Picture Weekly, who put him in touch with an agency who got him work with DC Thomson on a science fiction comic that never came out. Inspired by Paul Neary’s work on Eerie, he pencilled some fantasy samples. His agent took them to 2000 AD, which was in pre-production and looking for artists for “Judge Dredd”. The character had been designed by Carlos Ezquerra, and McMahon’s style was similar enough to Ezquerra’s, so he was hired.