David Baillie (comics)

David Baillie
NationalityScottish
AreaWriter
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]

Biography

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]

Selected bibliography

Vertigo / DC Comics

  • Red Thorn, ongoing series, with art by Meghan Hetrick, letters by Todd Klein (2015)
  • "Night of the Black Stant" in Vertigo CMYK K, with art by Will Morris, letters by Todd Klein (2015)

2000 AD

  • "The Ghostship Mathematica" with art by Inaki Miranda/Eva de la Cruz, (Progs 1827 to 1829)
  • "After the Vengeance" with art by Jon Davis-Hunt, (Progs 1870 to 1873)
  • "The Flowers of Viber Hinge" with art by Paul Marshall, Prog 1873
  • "A Guide for Prisoners Arriving from the Year 2149" with art by Warren Pleece, (Prog 1786)
  • "Silent Running", with art by Anthony Williams (comics), (Prog 1787)
  • "Birth of the Mazzikim", with art by Jesus Redondo, (Prog 1737)
  • "The Death Magnetic", with art by Will Morris, (Prog 1836)
  • "Time is the Only Enemy, art by Graeme Neil Reid and Letters by Simon Bowland, (Prog 1837)
  • "The Crow Gifts", art by Joshua George, Letters by Ellie De Ville, (Prog 1958)

Judge Dredd Megazine

  • "The Unfortunate Case of High-Altitude Albert", with art by Joel Carpenter, (Meg 317)
  • "And Death Must Die", with art by Jake Lynch, (Meg 348)
  • "Dead Man Talking", Judge Dredd prose story, (Meg 339)
  • "Too Hottie To Handle", Judge Dredd prose story, (Meg 354)
  • "Prophet of Stomm", Judge Dredd Black Museum art by Steve Austin, (Meg 357)
  • Chopper: "Wandering Soul", with art by Brendan McCarthy, (Meg 395–399)

References

  1. ↑ "Overspill: Because I wanted to talk to...David Baillie (Part Two)". 29 December 2007. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "'Everyone else wanted to be a football player and I wanted to write and draw comics': Face to Face with David Baillie". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "WHAAM! At firstsite with David Baillie | Tweeterview". Retrieved 24 August 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "Kapow Guinness World Record Special #One-Shot by Marvel Comics | Comic Book Information | StashMyComics.com". www.stashmycomics.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "David Baillie Talks Bloodshot: Portal 666". 8 February 2014. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "BARNEY -- prog zone". www.2000ad.org. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Comic-Con: DC/Vertigo's 'Red Thorn' Explores Scottish Mythology". The Hollywood Reporter. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "David Baillie & Rob Davis". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Durham Red and Chopper Return to 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine". 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Our Future Scotland | Scotland's Futures Forum". August 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Megadeth will celebrate their 35th anniversary with new graphic novel". 11 March 2019. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  12. ↑ "Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories". Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  13. ↑ "David Baillie, Conor Boyle and other British creators feature in upcoming Heavy Metal Magazine". 11 March 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  14. ↑ "PARAVERSE". www.webtoons.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
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