Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan is a British novelist, comic book and television writer .

Peter Milligan at ComicCon Germany 2018

Life and work

Milligan began writing for the British comic magazine 2000AD as a full-time writer in the early 1980s . Over the next few years, he presented numerous science fiction stories that were published within the series, such as Bad Company , a futuristic war story that he co-designed with cartoonists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy. This was followed by series such as Hewigan's Haircut (with draftsman Jamie Hewlett) and Bix Barton (with Bix Barton). In addition to 2000AD , Milligan also worked for Revolver and Crisis magazines during this period . Even then, the psychedelic-surrealistic touch of his stories was characteristic of his work. For the publisher Eclipse Comics he contributed stories for the series Strange Days , Paradax , Freakwave and Johnny Nemo .

In 1989, Milligan finally succeeded in gaining a foothold on the US comic market with the six-part mini-series Skreemer , a gangster saga set in a post-apocalyptic future, published by DC Comics . In his next project, Skin , Milligan, together with illustrator Brendan McCarthy, described the experiences of a skinhead in London in the 1970s. This was followed by a series of works for DC: For example the series Shade , which had 33 issues from 1990 to 1993, as well as some issues of the series Batman , Detective Comics and Animal Man (1991), which he followed up in 1991 and 1992 with breaks supervised by Marv Wolfman and Grant Morrison respectively . Jim Aparo and Mike Mignola stood by his side as draftsmen . Other works of these years were Enigma (1993) and Extremist and the four-part miniseries The Human Target .

In 2001 he took over the X-Force series with the # 116 at Marvel Comics . He initially wrote the series until it was discontinued with # 129 and continued this work even after it was restarted under the title X-Statix . This series caused a stir in the British press in advance, because Milligan at times planned to incorporate the dead Princess Diana as a resurrected zombie woman as a "team member" in the series. The idea was eventually dropped and the series started without the controversial character. It eventually reached 29 editions, a large part of which were later reprinted as anthologies.

In 2004 he wrote twenty-one issues of the Final Cut series published by Vertigo and the five-part miniseries X-Statix ​​Presents: Dead Girl .

Milligan wrote the series X-Men (# 166 to 187) from 2005 to 2007 . In 2007 the series The Program (2007) published by Wildstorm and the Batman Annual # 26 followed. In the future he is to take over the series Infinity Inc.

Milligan has also written several scripts for the films Pilgrim (2000; with Ray Liotta ) and An Angel for May (2002).

Web links

Commons : Peter Milligan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Milligan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Milligan in the Internet Movie Database (English)