Mike McMahon (comics)

McMahon's early work was characterised by a quick, spontaneous approach that verged on the messy. His figures were lean and loose, his pen lines thrown down with verve and energy, and hatching was done with a fully charged brush. He drew the bulk of the first long-form Judge Dredd story, "The Cursed Earth", with the slower, more meticulous Brian Bolland contributing occasional episodes.

In 1979 McMahon took some time off from Dredd to draw

After his last work on Sláine in 1984, McMahon re-emerged in 1991, after a long illness that prevented him from drawing, with The Last American, written by Wagner and Grant, for Marvel Comics's Epic imprint, and another radical change in drawing style.

Since then he has worked in computer game design and his work in comics has been sporadic. A couple of

In 2011-2012 McMahon drew Tank Girl - Carioca, a six-part mini series with Tank Girl co-creator to Alan Martin for Titan Books.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Jaws of Death (in Starblazer #71 1982)
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD #2-4, 6-7, 12, 15-16, 18, 20, 23-24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34-35, 37, 39, 43-44, 58-85, 89-91, 96-97 & 100, 1977–79)
• Ro-Busters (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #103-115, 1979)
• ABC Warriors (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #121-22, 125-26, 129, 132-33 & 137-39, 1979)
• The V.C.s (with Gerry Finley-Day, in 2000 AD #140, 1979)
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD #144-45, 147, 160-61, 162, 166, 170-71, 176-78, 183-85 & 193-96, 1979–80)
• Doctor Who Monthly
  #58-59, 1981)
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 236, 1981)
• Slaine
  (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD # 335-336, 343-360, & 1846, 1983–84)
• Muto Maniac (in Toxic! # 1-7, 1991)
• The Last American #1-4 (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, 4-issue mini-series, Epic, 1991)
• Hellraiser #10, 16 (Epic, 1991)
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• Batman:
  • "Watchtower" (with Chuck Dixon, in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #55-57, DC Comics, December 1993 - February 1994)
  • "Fat City" (writer and artist, with co-writer
    ISBN 1401213545
    )
• Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol.2) #53-56, 1994)
• Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol.3) #3, 1995)
• Rugrats (#13, 1997)
• Tattered Banners #1-4 (with Alan Grant and Keith Giffen, Vertigo Comics, September 1998 - February 1999)
• ABC Warriors (with Pat Mills, in 2000 AD #1240-42, 2001)
• Judge Dredd (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1308, 2002)
• Judge Dredd (with Robbie Morrison, in 2000 AD #1539, 2007)
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  )
• Hellboy "Hellboy Gets Married" (with Mike Mignola, in Dark Horse Presents Vol. 2 #31-32, Dark Horse Comics, December 2013 - January 2014)
• Tharg
  (in 2000 AD #2000, 1-page story, September 2016)
• Judge Dredd (with Rory McConville, in 2000 AD #2054, October 2017)