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Irish comic artist
Paul Jason Holden (born 28 December 1969) is a
Northern Irish
comic
artist based in
Belfast .
He has worked for
2000 AD ,
Warhammer Monthly , and
Judge Dredd Megazine . Among other stories for these publications, he has provided the art for
Rogue Trooper ,
Judge Dredd and
Johnny Woo .
Biography
Holden was first published by
Fantagraphics in 1997 (Holy Cross #3) with
Malachy Coney , and he provided art for a story with
Mike Carey from
Caliber in 1997.
Not professionally published again until 2000 AD (
Judge Dredd "Sino-Cit") in 2001, he has been working professionally since. This work has included further stints on Judge Dredd and, most recently, becoming the main artist on
The 86ers , taking over for the third instalment of the first story.
He has a long history within the
British small press comics , amongst other things, providing the early covers for
FutureQuake , and this has continued until today with his providing forums to small press publishers on his Pencil Monkey message board. He has recently collected all his small press work into a single volume, Previously .
[1]
Holden got his break into the American comic book market with the
Image Comics ,
mini-series
Fearless .
[2]
Holden has also formed Infurious Comics
[3] a company aiming to produce
mobile comics for the
iPhone and
iPod Touch and he helped design the Comic Reader App to facilitate this, which the BBC highlighted as one of "four pioneering web innovations".
[4] He has also provided the art for their first comic
Murderdrome , written by
Al Ewing .
[5] Although this was banned by Apple for violent content,
[6] the publicity raised the profile of Comic Reader App, which resulted in
NBC licensing it for their
Heroes
comics .
[7] This led the BBC to suggest "Mr Holden and his colleagues may have accidentally hit upon what could be the future of comic book publishing.
[8]
Bibliography
Comics
Comics work includes:
Fantagraphics (with
Malachy Coney ):
Holy Cross #3
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed with
The DandyLion
"Suicide Kings" (with
Mike Carey ,
Caliber Comics , 1997)
Mega-City One : "The Burning Red" (with
Simon Spurrier , in
Zarjaz (vol. 1) #1, 2001)
Judge Dredd :
"Sino-Town" (with
Gordon Rennie , in
2000 AD #1233, 2001)
"Unnatural Selection" (with
Alan Grant , in 2000 AD #1278, 2002)
"Waiting" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1312, 2002)
"Meet the Flooks" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1359, 2003)
"Dead Man Walking" (with
Jonathan Clements , in
Judge Dredd Megazine #226, 2004)
"The Magnificent Umbersons" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #235, 2005)
"Warzone" (with
John Wagner , in Judge Dredd Megazine #240-243, 2006)
"House of Pain" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1488-1490, 2006)
"Sanctuary" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1495, 2006)
"On Campus" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1522, 2007)
"It Came From Bea Arthur Block" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1637-1639, 2009)
"
Tour of Duty : Interlude" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1656, 2009)
Tharg's Future Shocks :
"Alpha Team" (with Simon Spurrier, in 2000 AD #1262, 2001)
"Skeleton Key" (with Richard McTighe, in 2000 AD #1276, 2002)
"Autocrats Anonymous" (with Jaspre Bark, in 2000 AD #1370, 2003)
Rogue Trooper : "Realpolitik" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1380-1385, 2004)
"The Cut Above" (in
FutureQuake #2, 2004)
Johnny Woo : "A Bullet In The Head" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #231-233, 2005)
Origins of the Cadre #2 (with Mat Nastos and Andrew Pellerito, Nifty Comics, 2005)
The 86ers :
"Touchdown" (with writer Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1482-1485, 2006)
"Interference" (with writer Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1508-1510, 2006)
"Walking to Eternity" (with writer Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD prog 2007, 2006)
"Grendel" (with writer Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1544-1549, 2007)
"Under Pressure" (with writer
Arthur Wyatt , in 2000 AD #1625-1630, 2009)
Fearless (with
Mark Sable and Dave Roth,
Image Comics ,
2007 -2008)
Dead Signal (with
Al Ewing , in 2000 AD #1581-1587, 2008)
Murderdrome (with Al Ewing,
mobile comic , 2008)
[5]
Battlefields : Happy Valley (with
Garth Ennis ,
Dynamite Entertainment , January–February 2010, tpb, 88 pages, June 2010,
ISBN
1-60690-128-1 , included in The Complete Battlefields, Volume 2 , hardcover, 200 pages, July 2011,
ISBN
1-60690-222-9 )
[9]
Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human (with
Rob Williams , 5-issue limited series, Dynamite Entertainment, July–November 2011, tpb, 104 pages, March 2012,
ISBN
1-60690-260-1 )
Covers
Covers work includes:
VR
VR work includes:
Notes
^
PJ Holden - Previously
Archived 2007-10-05 at the
Wayback Machine , interview with Richmond Clements, 2000 AD Review
^
Comics Radar 029 - Fearless Interview , Comics Radar, September 23, 2007
^
Infurious Comics
^
Four pioneering web innovations ,
BBC , March 15, 2009
^
a
b
Murderdrome
^
Paul Holden on the Murderdrome /iPhone Flap ,
Newsarama , September 11, 2008
^
Heroes Comics Reader
Archived 2009-05-19 at the
Wayback Machine
^
NI comics heroes find US success ,
BBC , June 1, 2009
^
Ennis Heads Back to the 'Battlefields' ,
Comic Book Resources , October 26, 2009
References
External links
Interviews
Interview with Richmond Clements at 2000adreview.co.uk