David Baillie (comics)
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| David Baillie | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Area | Writer |
Notable works | 2000 AD, Red Thorn for Vertigo |
| http://www.davidbaillie.net | |
David Baillie is a writer and artist best known for creating the Vertigo comic series Red Thorn, and for writing stories for 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine - for which he also once wrote a monthly column describing his life as a comics creator.[1]
David Baillie was born in East Whitburn, West Lothian in 1977. At university he studied electrical engineering, moved to London in 1999 and worked there for two years as a computer programmer in an investment bank before quitting that job to become an artist.[2]
In 2010 Baillie was engaged as artist-in-residence for visual arts centre Firstsite in Colchester.[3]
In 2011 he took part in the successful group effort to break the Guinness World Records for the fastest comic-book ever produced and the largest number of creators working on a single comic, with proceeds going to Yorkhill Hospital.[4]
In 2013 he was one of a number of professional writers commissioned to write a novel for Amazon Publishing's Kindle Worlds line featuring the Valiant Comics character Bloodshot[5]
In 2014 he was interviewed in Judge Dredd Megazine issue 344 by Matthew Badham about his comics career to date.[6]
It was announced at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con that Baillie would write a new series for Vertigo called Red Thorn, set in modern-day Glasgow exploring Scottish mythology, featuring art by Meghan Hetrick, colours by Steve Oliff, (latterly Nick Filardi) and letters by Todd Klein.[7]
In 2017 Baillie appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with Rob Davis to discuss Comics of a Deadly Kind and the inspiration and publication history of his series Red Thorn.[8]
At the beginning of 2018 it was announced that Baillie would write the return of classic Judge Dredd character Chopper with Mad Max's Brendan McCarthy on art.[9]
In 2018 Baillie was interviewed for the Scotland's Futures Forum film Our Future Scotland, along with Scottish writers, artists, politicians and actors, including Brian Cox, Nicola Sturgeon and Christopher Brookmyre.[10]
In 2019 Baillie's Chopper stories were collected by Rebellion and he wrote a graphic novel celebrating the thrash metal band Megadeth's greatest hits international tour.[11]
In 2020 Baillie revisited the history of classic 2000AD character The Gronk, produced several Judge Dredd tales with new Scottish artist Anna Morozova and contributed a number of short stories to Rebellion's Judge Dredd Prose collection, Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories.[12] In May he and Conor Boyle created a story called “Revenge of the Cicatrix” for Heavy Metal Magazine.[13] He also wrote and drew a short web series of unconnected comic stories for Webtoon called Paraverse.[14]