Nick Abadzis

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Nick Abadzis
Laika

Nick Abadzis (Greek: Νικ Αμπατζής; born 1965)[1] is a British comic book writer and artist.

Early life

Abadzis is of

Greek and British parentage and raised in Sweden, England and Switzerland. He is British by nationality.[2]

Career

Abadzis at Caption 2008

In 1987, he secured a job at Marvel Comics' UK publishing branch where he was, at that time, the youngest-ever editor.[3][4][5]

Abadzis went freelance in 1988 when his career as a

children's books. His series Hugo Tate ran in Deadline magazine from 1988 to 1994. Some of this series was collected as Hugo Tate: O, America in 1993, which won in 1994 a UK Comic Art Award for best graphic novel.[6]

As a part of the

Vertigo.[citation needed
]

His graphic novel,

Harvey Award for Best Original Graphic Album. In 2009, the book won Meilleur Scénario (Best story/script) – Festival du Livre Aéronautique at Le Bourget Book Festival in France, and at the Napoli Comicon Awards, Italy for Best Foreign Graphic Novel.[citation needed
]

Abadzis also worked as a newspaper cartoonist on The Sunday Correspondent (now defunct), and as a freelance illustrator and comics writer and as a development and consultant editor on a range of best-selling children's magazines for various British publishers. He has also moonlighted as a TV writer for the children's animated show Bob the Builder. He has created Cora's Breakfast for The DFC, which has run in the comic section of the weekend Guardian.[8] The Trial of the Sober Dog, a graphic novella, was serialised in The Times over a six-month period in 2008.

Beginning in May 2010, Abadzis' one-off comics have been published weekly in Nib-Lit Comics Journal.[9]

Bibliography

Revolver

  • Revolver Horror Special, 1989
  • "The Head" (script, with art by
    Edmund Perryman
    )

Crisis

  • "The Big Voice", (script, art by Edmund Perryman) in
    Crisis
     no. 63, 1991
  • "Commuter's Journey", (script and art) in Crisis no. 63, 1991

Hugo Tate

Hugo Tate

Marvel

DC

2000 AD

The Pleebus Planet Books

The Amazing Mr. Pleebus
  • The Amazing Mr Pleebus (script and art, Orchard Books, 1996, reissued by Rising Trout Press, in 2001)
  • The Freaky Beastie of Hill Road School (script and art, Orchard Books, 1997, reissued by Rising Trout Press, in 2001)
  • The Magic Skateboard (script and art, Orchard Books, 1998, reissued by Rising Trout Press, in 2001)
  • Voyage to Planet Voon (script and art, Orchard Books, 1999)

Other

  • The Dangerous Planet (script and art, 48-page graphic novel. Heinemann, now Harcourt Education, 1999)
  • The Pyramid of Doom (script and art, 48-page graphic novel. Heinemann, 2000)
  • The Dog From Outer Space (script and art, Heinemann, 2001, published in the US by Rigby)
  • Doctor Who: "The Betrothal of Sontar" (with co-author John Tomlinson, and art by Mike Collins, in Doctor Who Magazine #365–367, 2006)
  • Laika (art and script, First Second Publishing, graphic novel, 2007)
  • Cora's Breakfast (The DFC, 2008-ongoing)
  • The Trial of the Sober Dog, graphic novella, serialised in The Times over a six-month period in 2008.
  • Pigs Might Fly (writer, illustrated by Jerel Dye, First Second Publishing, graphic novel, 2017)

Notes

  1. ^ a b Abadzis profile, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved Jan. 28, 2020.
  2. ^ "Nick Abadzis | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  3. ^ Vasseur, Richard (9 February 2007). "Nick Abadzis, Cartoonist and Writer". Jazma Online. As a writer I studied English and Theater Studies but I'm largely self-taught as an artist, although a lot of my early formal comics training as an editor came when I joined Marvel Comics UK publishing branch. There, I was, at that time, the youngest-ever editor.
  4. ^ "Interview with Nick Abadzis, Writer of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor". Comics Verse. 29 October 2014. Nick Abadzis has a long and storied career with Marvel UK, serving as the youngest editor in the 1980s.
  5. ^ Spurgeon, Tom (29 April 2012). "CR Sunday Interview: Nick Abadzis". The Comics Reporter. I was looking for work, definitely, and I'd worked at Marvel UK as an editor -- at that time, the youngest they'd ever had -- but I wanted to explore what comics could do.
  6. ^ MT. "Newswatch: 5th UK Comic Art Awards," The Comics Journal #168 (May 1994), p. 44.
  7. ^ New York Press – NICK ABADZIS – Laika Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Guardian comic
  9. ^ "Nib-Lit". nib-lit.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  10. ^ Millennium Fever (DC Comics) on Comic Collector Connect, home of the Collectorz.com comic database

References

External links

Selected interviews

Radio and podcasts

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