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Gordon Rennie

Born
Nationality Scottish
Area(s) Writer
Notable works Judge Dredd
Caballistics, Inc.
Necronauts
Awards 2004, Diamond Comics Awards, Graphic Novel of the Year

Gordon Rennie is a former music journalist turned comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread. Caballistics Inc is a horror / Fantasy Comic strip, set in the present day that has been running in the weekly British anthology comic Necronauts was a 2000 AD comic strip created by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving. Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Warhammer The Game of Fantasy Battles, formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle and often abbreviated to Warhammer WFB or WHFB

In May 2008 he announced he was quitting comics to concentrate full-time on videogames which "are more fun, pay better and have a brighter future. " [1]

Contents

Biography

His first work was published in Blast! magazine in 1991; a metafictional Sherlock Holmes story called "Sherlock Holmes in the Curious Case of the Vanishing Villain", painted by Woodrow Phoenix. Woodrow Phoenix is a British Comics Artist, writer editorial illustrator graphic designer font designer and author of children's books It also featured appearances by characters from other Victorian fiction including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and characters from stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886 Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic,

He then showed his surprising range with the completely different White Trash in the same issue - a satirical journey through the USA, drawn by the New Zealand artist Martin Emond. Martin Emond ( New Zealand 1969 - Los Angeles California March 5 2004) also known under the Pseudonyms "Martin Fuckin Emond" Both these stories were later collected into one-shot graphic novels and published by Tundra Publishing. A Tundra Publishing was a Northampton Massachusetts -based Comic book publisher founded by Kevin Eastman in 1990. Two further planned collaborations with Phoenix, a one-shot graphic novel called "Orson Welles: Special Agent!" and Necronauts, later completed with Frazer Irving,were halted when Tundra Press ceased publishing in 1993. A Necronauts was a 2000 AD comic strip created by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving. Frazer Irving (born in the1970s Ilford, Essex) is a British horror artist who became known for the 2000 AD series Necronauts Tundra Publishing was a Northampton Massachusetts -based Comic book publisher founded by Kevin Eastman in 1990.

Rennie's first major series for the 2000 AD family was Missionary Man, which began in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. Missionary Man debuted in the Judge Dredd Megazine in May 1993 with the introductory 7-page story Salvation At The Last Chance Saloon illustrated Judge Dredd Megazine is a monthly British Comic magazine, launched in October 1990. 2 #29 (5/93) and ran between "the Meg" and 2000 AD for 74 episodes before finishing in 2002. Other original series have included Witch World (1997) and Rain Dogs (2000). He also took over the exploits of the perennial Judge Dredd villain Mean Machine (2000-01), as well as the return of the original Rogue Trooper (2002-04). For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread. Mean Machine is a 2001 British Comedy / Drama Film, directed by Barry Skolnick. Rogue Trooper is a Science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day

Among his most celebrated work for 2000 AD is the miniseries Necronauts (2000-01), in which Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort, and (inevitably) H. P. Lovecraft team up to defeat an incomprehensibly alien menace that seeks to destroy the human race. Necronauts was a 2000 AD comic strip created by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Charles Hoy Fort ( 6 August, 1874 &ndash 3 May, 1932) was a Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy This was quickly followed up by the ongoing series Caballistics, Inc. (41 episodes as of August 2005), a story about a recently privatized team of occult researchers, which pleased fans with its combination of pop-cultural references and labyrinthine conspiracies. Caballistics Inc is a horror / Fantasy Comic strip, set in the present day that has been running in the weekly British anthology comic

By 2004, Rennie had become the "number two" writer on the Judge Dredd strip, following up a number of subplots initiated by its principal author, John Wagner, as well as developing his own situations and guest characters, some of whom have spun-off into popular stories of their own. John Wagner is a Comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy While the lengthier, "epic" Judge Dredd adventures are typically scripted by Wagner, Rennie was awarded one in 2005. This story, "Blood Trails," ran for ten episodes beginning in 2000 AD prog 1440 (5/25/05).

His novels for Warhammer, both Fantasy and 40k, include Zavant, Ulli and Marquand, the Kal Jerico stories, Bloodquest, and Execution Hour and 'Shadow Point for Battlefleet Gothic. Warhammer 40000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame in a Science Battlefleet Gothic is a tabletop miniatures game based in Games Workshop 's fictional Warhammer 40000 universe and is sold by

Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Three computer game versions of Rogue Trooper have been made 8-bit Computer Game (1986 An Isometric shooter by Piranha He is moving away from comics and into more video game work, in May 2008 he was quoted as saying "I got fed up with comics and quit last month to concentrate on games. " Although he later said he was misquoted, and that he hasn't completely given up comics, as he will still be writing an ongoing series for 2000 AD. [2] He has a number in the works, as well as planning a novel on the Romans in Scotland. [1]

He is known for maintaining close links with the fan community, for example by contributing to small press comics such as Solar Wind, despite a public persona he describes as "a grumpy Scottish git". Fans in Little Italyjpg|thumb|right|Fans in Little Italy Manhattan celebrating the victory of the Italian association football team after the 2006 FIFA World Cup]][[Image Wm-oly-de-cr British small press comics is a term used to describe Comic books self-published by Cartoonists and Comic book creators within the UK Solar Wind is a British Small press Comicbook. Edited by Cosmic Ray (a pseudonym for small press comics publisher Paul Scott) the

Works

Comics

Comics work includes:

Novels

Novels include:

2000 AD

Warhammer

Videogames

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ a b Meet The Big Game Hunters, The Sunday Mail, May 11, 2008
  2. ^ Rennie's comments on 2000 AD's message board
  3. ^ http://home.contextshift.co.uk/~adrianbamforth/Strips/MarriedWithJuves/Juves1.html
  4. ^ http://home.contextshift.co.uk/~adrianbamforth/Strips/RedMenace/RedMenace1.html
  5. ^ Simon Bisley and the Business of 'Splatterhouse', Comic Mix, April 30, 2008
  6. ^ Bafta Home - The BAFTA site

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