Deadline (magazine)

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Deadline

Deadline was a British comics magazine published between 1988 and 1995.

Created by

Revolver and Toxic!, and had a cultural influence beyond the comics world, most notably via its breakout star Tank Girl
. Deadline was published by Deadline Publications Ltd.

History

The magazine's origins lie in the earlier publication Strange Days, an anthology title created by Ewins, Brendan McCarthy and Peter Milligan.

Much of the non-strip content centred on alternative and indie music. Coupled with the subversive nature of many of the comic strips, the magazine had a distinctive counterculture ethos and post-punk sensibility.

The magazine was owned and financed by Tom Astor

Milk and Cheese. Elliott also arranged for content from the magazine to be reprinted in the US by Dark Horse Comics
as Deadline USA.

Deadline enjoyed the patronage of those who would not normally purchase comics and the support of several key bands of the time, with

Carter USM and the Senseless Things. However, the commercial failure of the Tank Girl film and the crossing over of the alternative scene into the mainstream (around the time of Britpop
, a movement it had helped to champion) saw the magazine eventually fold at the end of 1995.

In the late 2000s, Alan Grant edited the title Wasted, which owed much to the style and ethos of Deadline a decade and a half earlier.

Comic strips published in Deadline (selected)

References

Notes

  1. ^ Bates, John K. "Wired 2.12: Tank Girl Stomps Hollywood". Wired.

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