Carl Critchlow
Carl Critchlow (* 1963 in Liverpool ) is a British comic artist .
Live and act
Critchlow began working as a full-time comic book artist in the early 1990s. He presented his first work for British comic magazines such as 2000AD . Later he was able to gain a foothold in the US market and received drawing orders from major American publishers such as DC Comics .
Critchlow has achieved his greatest successes as a commissioned draftsman for stories about the anti-hero Judge Dredd , created in the 1970s , whose adventures he staged for 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine . Authors whose scripts he used particularly frequently while working on Judge Dredd were Alan Grant , Simon Spurrier and John Wagner. In addition to Judge Dredd, Critchlow also contributed stories to the Lobster Random series for 2000AD . Critchlow shot several editions of the Flesh series for author Pat Mills .
For the American market, Critchlow drew crossover stories such as Judge Dredd / Batman : The Ultimate Riddle or Lobo / Judge Dredd . A series developed by Critchlow himself, for which he completes about one more issue per year, is Thrud the Barbarian , the first edition of which appeared in 2002.
Critchlow's drawing style - who sometimes creates comics as a comic painter with a brush - is primarily characterized by his purposeful, practiced "dirtiness": Critchlow's pictures are usually deliberately designed to create the most unpleasant and ominous atmosphere possible Dystopian or macabre satirical plot of the stories, the implementation of which he is usually entrusted with, should take into account. He achieves this impression through tricks such as the choice of very “shadowy” perspectives and through a gloomy coloring that sometimes looks as if a patina of soot had been laid over the drawings. One critic characterized Critchlow's style accordingly by comparing his pictures with engraved images carved into the surface of a granite slab . In contrast, Critchlow's work on Thrud the Barbarian is a bit lighter .
Web links
- Carl Critchlow in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Critchlow, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |