Brendan McCarthy

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Brendan McCarthy
Born1960
London
NationalityBritish
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Artist, Colourist
Notable works
Shade, the Changing Man
Highlander
Rogan Gosh
Mad Max: Fury Road

Brendan McCarthy is a

British artist and designer who has worked for comic books, film and television.[1][2] He co-wrote the film Mad Max: Fury Road. He is the brother of Jim McCarthy.[3]

Life and career

Early life and work

Brendan McCarthy was born in London. As a boy McCarthy soon began drawing his own home-made comics.[

independent comic book Sometime Stories with art college pal Brett Ewins.[4][5] His first paid commercial work was a one-page strip Electrick Hoax in the British weekly music paper Sounds with another art-school escapee, writer Peter Milligan, in 1978. McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at the Car Breaker Gallery[6] in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia.[7]

Comics

McCarthy started working for

post-apocalyptic surfing story Freakwave with Peter Milligan. In 1983 McCarthy collaborated with Milligan and Brett Ewins on Strange Days, an anthology title published by Eclipse Comics. He also drew a two-issue series featuring his alternative "media-brat superhero
" Paradax from the anthology.

Cover of the Rogan Gosh collected edition.

Over the next few years he worked for the 2000 AD spin off titles

Vertigo imprint of DC Comics). For Crisis, he drew Skin. Both books were created with and written by Peter Milligan. Skin proved to be highly controversial, with Crisis refusing to release the story and their printers refusing to print it due to claims of it being "morbidly obscene".[citation needed] The story was eventually being released by Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing
in 1992.

He designed the characters for

Johnny Sorrow and he considers the single issue to be one of his best works.[citation needed
]

In 2009, Brendan was commissioned by Marvel Comics to create a new take on

Dr Who, and with whom he created a popular new story, The Zaucer of Zilk,[13][14] which he has described as a cross between Harry Potter and Aladdin Sane: "A glammatronic phantasmagoria."[15]
The series debuted in March 2012. It was reprinted by IDW in a new format with both issues quickly selling out. Zaucer of Zilk appeared in many "best of the year" lists.

In 2013 he published The Best of Milligan & McCarthy, a brand new collection of his most famous comic works co-created with Peter Milligan, through Dark Horse Comics.[16] McCarthy wrote and drew a graphic novel titled Dream Gang for the publisher that was released in July 2016.[citation needed] A collection of his classic Judge Dredd stories from over 35 years of work was collected by IDW in hardcover and released in January 2017.[citation needed] Brendan completed artwork on a new Chopper strip for Rebellion Publishing in 2018 and a sequel to The Zaucer of Zilk, published in 2020 in 2000AD. His final strip for the magazine, Nakka of the S.T.A.R.S., was published in 2021.

Film and television

Beginning in the seventies McCarthy has worked extensively in TV, producing designs for an ultimately unmade

The Storyteller. He was a designer on the films Highlander, the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Lost in Space and The Borrowers. He was also hired by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to write and design visual gags to the film Coneheads
.

McCarthy spent much of the remainder of the 1990s working in film and television, most notably as the production designer of the international hit

George Miller after meeting in Hollywood. The film was shot in 2012, with McCarthy visiting the set in Namibia.[17] It was released in 2015, with the final film receiving many "best of the year" awards including six Oscars.[18] It was McCarthy's first Hollywood screenplay, and he was the original Production Designer on the movie. His comic Freakwave was, in part, inspired by Miller's Mad Max 2
. The pair also created and co-wrote the forthcoming new CGI animated feature called Fur Brigade.

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

Covers only

Awards

References

  1. ^ Brendan McCarthy
  2. ^ Windsor, John (8 April 2001). "Justice for Dredd". The Observer. Retrieved 7 March 2011. Bad Company was launched as a comic in 1988 by Ewins, Milligan and Jim McCarthy, brother of Brendan, a Dredd artist
  3. ^ "Sometime Stories". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Sometime Stories number 2". The Strangeness of Brendan McCarthy.
  5. ^ Notting Dale. Carbreaker Gallery
  6. ^ The Republic of Frestonia. Car Breakers Gallery
  7. ^ Bishop, 2007, page 120
  8. ^ Brevoort, Tom. Formative Crisis, Marvel.com, 29 January 2009
  9. ^ Cardwell, Mark. "Interview: Brendan McCarthy". Dogmatika. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  10. ^ Hudson, Laura (21 January 2010). "Preview of 'Spider-Man: Fever' by Brendan McCarthy – EXCLUSIVE". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  11. ^ Mautner, Chris (3 February 2010). "High Fever: An interview with Brendan McCarthy". Robot 6. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  12. ^ Keily, Karl (2 December 2011). "Brendan McCarthy Brings "The Zaucer of Zilk" TO "2000AD"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  13. ^ Byrne, Carol (5 April 2012). "West Clare goes graphic for Zaucer of Zilk". The Clare Champion. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  14. ^ Wells, Pete (7 April 2012). "Brendan McCarthy – Digidelic Zaucery!". 2000AD Covers Uncovered. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  15. ^ Wolk, Douglas (5 November 2013). "The Best of Milligan & McCarthy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  16. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Brendan McCarthy Goes Full Throttle for 'Mad Max: Fury Road'". 27 May 2015.
  17. ^ "Mad Max: Fury Road wins most awards of the night with six Oscars". 29 February 2016.
  18. ^ "1992 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  19. ^ "1993 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved 26 April 2012.

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