Influential British Comic-Book Artist Brett Ewins Passes Away, Aged 59

Feb 18

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Legendary British comic artist Brett Ewins sadly passed away yesterday after a recent illness. Brett was known for his work on the UK’s best selling 2000 AD comic, which has given the world such classic characters as Judge Dredd, Slaine and Rogue Trooper amongst many others. He is probably best remembered by his fans for his work on Judge Anderson and Rogue Trooper, though he also drew a plethora of other characters for the British weekly sci-fi comic including – Bad Company, Tharg’s Future Shocks and the ABC Warriors. Brett also worked for DC/Vertigo on Swamp Thing and Hellblazer in the late 1980’s.

Cass Anderson

The definitive Cassandra Anderson by Brett Ewins

In 1988 he founded Deadline comics alongside fellow 2000 AD artist Steve Dillon, Deadline lasted a mere seven years but introduced the comic-book world to classic characters like Tank Girl. Our thoughts go to Brett’s family at this time.

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Posted on February 18, 2015, in Comics and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.

  1. mlbradford | February 18, 2015 at 11:57

    Such a sad & untimely loss – an impressive & distinctive portfolio of work.
    He will b missed

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    • ArcaneHalloween | February 18, 2015 at 12:00

      I am a huge fan of 2000AD and fondly remember his work, especially on Judge Anderson, who is my personal favourite 2000AD character and Brett’s version of her will always be the greatest! Thanks for commenting my friend and have a great day.

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