ANDREW LEWIS
EDITOR
Andrew Lewis was the original creator and editor of ZARJAZ. He returns to the role determined to deliver thrills reminiscent of the golden age of 2000AD, but with a modern sensibility.
He is still vegetarian and these days mostly vegan.
BRETT BURBRIDGE
ARTIST: COVER, THE VC'S + MORE
DESIGN
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Artist…sometimes colourist… sometimes letterer... sometimes writer... Brett Burbridge is based in the UK, Bedford, operating out of a self converted studio in the garden.
He’s spent most of his working career in the advertising and illustration field. For the past ten years he’s been drawing comics and has been a 2000AD competition finalist on three separate occasions.
His work has appeared in: FUTUREQUAKE, SOMETHING WICKED, 100% BIODEGRADABLE, OCTAL, SLICED QUARTERLY, SPLANK! and BOMB SCARES. He’s coloured 'Dick Turpin & The Vengeful Shade' for Time Bomb Comics and provided art duties for the graphic novel DEATH DUTY written by John Freeman and David Hailwood. His work can be found here.
LEO HEALY
WRITER: WALTER THE WOBOT
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Leo Healy is a comics and prose writer. His first self-published comic, 'So You've Been Conquered by the Human Race', drawn by Torgo Wells, was shortlisted for the Mini Comic Awards 2024.
Possibly the world’s foremost Walter the Wobot expert, he wrote a Walter story for the previous incarnation of ZARJAZ, and a Strontium Dogs story for DOGBREATH. His debut prose short story, 'Blood Feud', was recently published by Obverse Books.
Having moved north from Peterborough to Sheffield, then to York, he's now living in Gateshead. He expects to be living at the North Pole by around 2030. Find his social media profiles and online store here
CRAIG DAWSON
WRITER: THE VC'S
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Craig Dawson was born in the east of England, but has lived in the north-west for so long that he now says “Ey up” to people. He has written four novels so far, the GRACE thriller trilogy and the horror story, SLATER’S PIT, details of which can be found here. SLATER’S PIT even has pictures in it.
He is currently enjoying writing for comics, which he hopes to continue, if comics will have him.
When he’s not doing that, he’s squaring up to the huge 'to read' pile, and despite his best efforts, it only seems to be getting larger and larger.
ANDY SMITH
WRITER: FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT
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Prog rocker and Doctor Who aficionado; born in the Wild West Midlands but forged in the Time Vortex, Andy Smith describes himself thus: "I’m a writer ( I’m a grinner, I’m a lover and I'm a sinner…” ), a wannabe vocalist and occasional comic strip scribbler."
Past triumphs include : FUTUREQUAKE, BLAKE'S 7 SCORPIO TALES, DOCTOR WHO COSMIC MASQUE, BOLT-01 TRIBUTE and FALCON.
Andy is currently contributing to further issues of the FALCON newsprint anthology and the Pale Moon Grimm series .
Find him on insta and follow his Facebook page “Wittering and wordfoolery” for further software updates. MICHAEL CROUCH
WRITER: ROBO-HUNTER; COMIC ROCK
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For Michael Crouch, a long, happy childhood of comics and play was followed by 40 years of drudgery and work, 33 of them in Telecommunications. Early retirement has seen a return to comics and play, along with a lot of short story writing and other things.
A 2000AD reader since prog 1, he wrote a JUDGE DREDD story, 'Monsters' published in ZARJAZ Vol.2 #37, and also wrote a story for Soaring Penguin Press’ WW1 anthology, TO END ALL WARS.
Michael's short story, 'The Trip', was featured in THE BEST OF BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION 2021 (Newcon Press).
TIM BURNELL
ARTIST: ANDERSON PSI DIVISION
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Tim Burnell has read and loved comics as far back as he can remember. After going to his first comic convention, ten years ago, and meeting artists his own age with similar influences he realised he wanted to get back in touch with his childhood dream of being a comic artist. So that day he bought a pad and pencils and made a commitment to finish a piece of art or sketch every day for 30 days. Ten years later and he is still keeping to the commitment of daily drawing and improvement.
Tim works in traditional media and loves the inking process the most in comic art. He is currently trying more brush work to expand from pens and occasional dabbling in acrylics. He is a massive fan of the work of Alan Davis, with '80s Marvel and 2000AD being where his biggest inspirations lie. He is motivated to keep improving and drawing by the motto, "the next one will be better"!
He has worked on the first two Comic Creative UK anthologies and DUI vol 3, as well as many personal webcomics. He regularly posts on insta.
PATRICK BROWN
ARTIST: COMIC ROCK; M.A.C.H. 1 GALLERY
COLOURIST/LETTERER: ANDERSON PSI DIVISION
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Patrick Brown is from Belfast, and has been knocking around the small press since the early 1990s. He says, "My magificent octopus is THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY, my graphic novel adaptation of the ancient Irish epic, starring the hero Cú Chulainn (one of main inspirations for Sláine)." Available
here.
Patrick is currently working on 'Penny Blood', a red-headed, red-dressed resistance fighter in alien-occupied Victorian London. The first episode appears in ANNO DOMINI 1900, the new retro-sci-fi anthology from
Sector 13 Comics.
Patrick is also drawing Andy Smith scripts for FALCON.
PETE HOBSON
WRITER: M.A.C.H. 1
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Raised on a diet of 80’s/90's cartoons, comics, action figures, RPGs, tabletop/video games and Christianity, Pete Hobson was a geek before it was fashionable and has successfully retained the unfashionable elements to this day.
He has had work published in FUTUREQUAKE
#21 and
#27, the CCUK Anthology
#2 & #3 and has upcoming work in the WIP Comic Short Story Anthology:
TALL TALES AND SHORT STORIES. Pete also has a WARHAMMER 40K fan-fic on A Vox In The Void's
YouTube Channel.
Pete is thankful to God for these opportunities and for his fantastic family, but also for proving God still loves those who seem, like Pete, hellbent on screwing it all up!
CHRIS LACKIE
WRITER: THE RETURN OF SUPER-BEAN
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Chris Lackie has written comics published by Red Stylo Media, Oneshi Press, Arledge Comics, and TO Comix Press, and he has stories featured in other comic anthologies, such as the Best of Indie Anthology 2019 and the Continental Cryptid Anthology.
On one particularly magical Free Comic Book Day, Chris discovered 2000AD and has been obsessed with British comics ever since.
Chris lives with his wife and two sons in the fabled tundra known as Ottawa, Canada, and he can be found on X
here or on Bluesky
here.
DAVID COURT
THE COSMIC CLAW PRESENTS: THRICESLAIN
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(Author portrait by Andrew Sawyers)
Immune to explosions, David Court lives in Coventry with wife Tara, dog Rebel, and an ever-growing beard. Tara once asked David if he'd write about how great she was - David replied that he would, because he specialised in short fiction. Despite that, they're still wed.
David is a writer, poet, radio presenter, freelance film journalist, voice artist and occasional liar.
His influences are the works of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, and his previous comics work can be found in THE THEORY by Twisted Comics. Read more about the enigma that is David Court
here.
NICK XYLAS
WRITER: MAX NORMAL & THE APE GANG
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Nick Xylas first joined the comics revolution at the age of eight, when his mum bought him a copy of ACTION issue 1.
Since then, he has written many scripts for 2000AD (we didn't say that any of them had been published).
His previous work can be found in ZARJAZ, FUTUREQUAKE, and the anthology series PULP ADVENTURES, as well as the self-published comic JHAAKOB COMES TO EARTH, aimed at Adult Literacy and ESOL learners.
TOM DAVIES
WRITER: STRONTIUM DOG; GREEN IS THE NEW GREY
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Tom Davies describes himself thus: "I write things, usually involving a combination of the following: death-defying escapes, absurd machinery, locked room mysteries, locked heart romances, Victorian super sleuths, retro-futuristic nightmares, and occult high-jinks."
Pretty much a social media absentee, Tom lurks on X and can be found
here
MATTHEW ELLIS
WRITER: ANDERSON PSI DIVISION
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Matthew Ellis has worked in Advertising for over 25 years. He thought after writing and storyboarding thousands of scripts & videos that writing a comic strip would be relatively straight forward. But hell no! All Mat learned was that it is really tough.
Outside of reading comics Mat attends Taylor Swift concerts, sometimes even bringing his teenage daughters with him. He has mad crushes on Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Mark Millar and Shelly Bond.
Mat brings his own identical twin brother to comic conventions. You will never see them both together until it’s too late. They work like Raptaurs.
DANIEL WHISTON
WRITER: POLAR REX
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Daniel Whiston's NEROY SPHINX: BACK IN THE GAME graphic novel was published by FutureQuake Press, with its follow-up NEROY SPHINX: PLAYING TO LOSE published by Markosia.
Comics written by him have also appeared in JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE, SLICED QUARTERLY, DEAD BY DAWN and SHOCK-A-RAMA. His comic-book stories featuring the 2000AD stable of characters have featured in multiple issues of ZARJAZ, DOGBREATH and FUTUREQUAKE. He is also the co-creator of GIDEON GUNN from Richmond Press. Daniel’s interview with Alan Moore was published in ALAN MOORE: CONVERSATIONS from the University Press of Mississippi.
His novel AMONGST THE CROOKED STARS is coming out soon from Airship 27.
JAMES NEWELL
ARTIST: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...?
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James Newell is a self-professed '2000AD nut' who has worked on the Prog illustrating stories by Paul Starkey, Karl Stock, Maura McHugh & Mike Carroll.
He co-created 'Slayer' with Pat Mills for SPACEWARP which you can discover here, and you can find out more about his previous contributions to ZARJAZ Vol.2 here.
He has just finished working on OME: THE GORGON VENDETTA with Dan Pollard. His art can be seen on Mastodon which he tries to keep up to date.
LAURENCE ALISON
WRITER: FREAK OUT! (AN INFERNO STORY)
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Laurence Alison is delighted to contribute an Inferno homage strip to ZARJAZ, inspired by his love of the brilliance of 2000AD legend Massimo Belardinelli and American comics auteur Daniel Clowes.
Laurence writes HEDREK, WARFIGHTER, OUT THERE, MADNESS AND MONSTERS and ODYSSEUS: IN DEFIANCE OF THE GODS.
He is a Forensic Psychologist by day, and a comic creator the rest of the time.
JACK BATES
ARTIST: FREAK OUT! (AN INFERNO STORY)
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Jack Bates lives on the wet, miserable west coast of Ireland.
When it’s not raining he rushes out and paints the wild rustic scenery of the place. When it is raining he sits down and draws comics. This gives him a bad back, but he doesn’t mind cause he knows that one day he’ll make millions as an illustrator.
You can find Jack’s work on Instagram: horrific creatures here and beautiful landscapes here.
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