Best Selling Author
PAT MILLS
Pat Mills created 2000AD which celebrated its 40th birthday in 2017 and is the subject of his autobiography: Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave! 2000AD and Judge Dredd: The Secret History. He also co-created the girls’ mystery comic Misty, now enjoying new success in collected editions.
He was the key writer on Crisis with his political thriller, Third World War, illustrated by the late Carlos Ezquerra. Some of his well-loved and long-running British series are Charley’s War, Sláine and Nemesis the Warlock.
He developed and wrote Judge Dredd, as well as Doctor Who audio plays and comics, Dan Dare, and series for Marvel and DC Comics. His Marshal Law – co-created with Kevin O’Neill – now published by DC Comics, was a New York Times Best Seller.
He continues to write all manner of challenging stories today, including the French graphic novel series Requiem: Vampire Knight, illustrated by Olivier Ledroit, which is available as an e-graphic novel on Amazon.
His crime series Accident Man – co-created with Tony Skinner – is now a movie starring Scott Adkins.
His current project is the text dark comedy thriller series Read Em and Weep. Book One: Serial Killer (with Kevin O’Neill) and Book Two: Goodnight, John-Boy, are on sale. Book Three: The Grim Reader, will be published in 2019.
For Pat’s full bibliography, see this Wiki page.
photo credit: Richard Klicnik
BOOKS
SERIAL KILLER
Battle. Action. 2000AD. Misty. The British Comics Revolution! Set in the strange world of British comics, Dave is a snarky comics writer scarred by his mother’s disappearance when he was a boy. Now he’s hunting her murderer.
GOODNIGHT, JOHN-BOY
With the Comics Revolution underway, and a plan to create the thrill-powered Space Warp, Dave continues his work as a Serial Killer, a secret vigilante who kills monsters that harm kids.
BE PURE! BE VIGILANT! BEHAVE!
Pat at last writes the definitive history of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, and the turbulent, extraordinary and exciting events that shaped it. Funny, sad, angry, defiant, and outrageous: it’s the Comic Book memoir you’ve been waiting for.
‘I think a blind javelin thrower is stretching credibility too far, Dave. Una Never Saw the Umpire didn’t really work for me….Anyhoo … it was an improvement on your previous proposal: My Dead Little Pony…I need realistic stories, Dave, relevant to girls’ lives in the 1970s. Hard-hitting. Social realism, showing the kind of Britain we’re living in today.’
‘Less Ken Barlow, more Ken Loach?’
DAVE AND JOY AT AN EDITORIAL MEETING
(SERIAL KILLER – READ EM AND WEEP 1)
Meet Pat
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
GIBUNCO GIBRALTAR LITERARY FESTIVAL
Pat is honoured to be a guest speaker at the Gibraltar Festival. You can catch him at 10am on Friday 16th in the John Mackintosh Hall, Charles Hunt Room. He will be signing books afterwards.
photo credit: Richard Klicnik