The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

It’s the fascinating sixty-eighth episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!An artist who should need no introduction, Arthur Ranson was a stalwart of British comics from the 1970s with work on licensed properties for Look-in before moving to 2000 AD in the 1980s and quickly establishing himself as one of the seminal artists on Judge Anderson’s solo adventures. His meticulously detailed style brought atmosphere and depth to his work, whether it was adding verve to adaptations of TV classics such as Sapphire & Steel or rendering the gritty streets of Mega-City One in Judge Dredd. In the 1990s, he co-created the noir crime thriller Button Man with John Wagner and the fantastical Mazeworld with Alan Grant, while drawing some of the most pivotal and moving moments in Judge Anderson’s life. He has since retired, but collections of his work have brought on re-evaluations of his work for new generations of comics fans, drawn to the rich detail and extraordinary influences of his work. In this interview from 2018, Molch-R chats with Arthur about his life, his work, and his choices both creative and personal.We then revisit the Thrill-Cast roundtable about Arthur's career and legacy, when Rebellion Publishing’s Head of Books and Comic Books Ben Smith, Hollywood Reporter geek culture correspondent Graeme McMillan, comics journalist John Freeman, and photographer and artist Ellen Rogers join Molch-R to talk about what Arthur’s work for 2000 AD and beyond means to them, why it deserves wider awareness, and the influence it has had on generations of readers and creators.Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the fantastical sixty-seventh episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!Black Beth and The Devils of Al-Kadesh is the new one-shot comic book from Rebellion, a fantasy 'sword and sorcery' saga resurrecting the warrior woman from the pages of Scream! Writer Alec Worley and artist DaNi join Molch-R on the Thrill-Cast to talk about the longest Black Beth adventure to date, bringing something fresh to the fantasy 'slayer' genre, the influences on their work, and the key role of confidence and trust within a comic book creating team.Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the spellbinding sixty-sixth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!Having established himself as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists of the the last 20 years thanks to work on ‘Total War’, ‘Day of Chaos’, ‘Titan’, ‘Enceladus’, and now ‘The Small House’, Henry Flint is a fan favourite artist whose work evokes the classic styles of Mick McMahon and Kevin O’Neill as well as Carlos Ezquerra and Ron Smith. Easily able to switch between action and comedy, he’s the co-creator of the weaponised zombie Zombo with Al Ewing as well as artist on Sancho Panzer, Rogue Trooper, Nikolai Dante, Shakara and many other strips.The Thrill-Cast returns to its interview with Flint from 2018, in which he talks about childhood doodles and his love of comics, getting his break at and nearly bankrupting 2000 AD, his work for American comics, and beyond the walls of Mega-City One.The Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast new Lockdown Tapes every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the fantastical flying sixty-fifth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!From Judge Dredd to Mercy Heights, from Strontium Dogs to Harmony, with his Mick McMahon-influenced style and solid storytelling Trevor Hairsine's time at 2000 AD in the 1990s was filled with variety, but it was the politically-charged Cla$$war with Rob Williams that helped bring him to the attention of Marvel, where he's gone from 'young gun' to seasoned veteran. The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast chats extensively to Trevor about his career, his battle with a lack of confidence in his own abilities, and living with Henry Flint sleeping in the corner.Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the retro-tastic sixty-fourth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!This week we dive back into the Thrill-Cast archive to our 2015 two-part interview with artist Steve Yeowell, now abridged into one episode! From how he got started in the industry on a toy tie-in series with Grant Morrison to swashbuckling across the cosmos with The Red Seas, this in-depth chat with Steve begins with everyone's favourite 'superbrat', Zenith, before moving on to Maniac 5, Devlin Waugh, and much more!Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the sutephalacalidaistic-exhimanitopus sixty-third episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!This episode is, also, late - apologies for the technical issues that mean we're a week and a day late with the latest burst of aural Thrill-power, Earthlets. Something something Thrill-suckers something. But we're back and we have two short interviews with some of the creative minds behind the latest issue of 2000 AD Regened - writer Roger Langridge, and artists Brett Parson and PJ Holden. From the hilarious new misadaventure of Mary-Poppins-meets-Catwoman 'Pandora Perfect' to the Dredd-world series 'Department K' and 'Chimpsky's Law', Molch-R talks to Roger, Brett and PJ about their work for the all-ages special. Apologies for the poor sound quality during the interviews, it was caused by sun spots. Or something.Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline​​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the splendorous sixty-second episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!This week we delve back into the archives to the Thrill-Cast's earliest days for an interview with artist Kev Walker. After starting his career on 2000 AD primarily as an inker on Steve Dillon pencils for Rogue Trooper and Harlem Heroes, Walker brought lush and detailed painted fully-painted art to Pat Mills' ABC Warriors before moving to a bold, pared-down inking style on Judge Dredd classics such as 'Mandroid' and 'Origins'. He talks to a fresh-faced Molch-R about the evolution of his style and working with John Wagner, plus bringing a little Dredd to the mighty world of Marvel!Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline​​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast on Spotify www.bit.do/thrillcastspotify or subscribe now on iTunes at bit.do/thrillcastitunesWelcome to the sensational sixty-first episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!From royal dinosaurs to Celtic barbarians, from fully-painted art to computer-aided photo manipulation, Clint Langley's career has been full of fascinating challenge and evolution. The Sláine and ABC Warriors artist talks to the Thrill-Cast about work, life, how he developed his unique style, and what's next...Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline​​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast on Spotify bit.do/thrillcastspotify or subscribe now on iTunes at bit.do/thrillcastitunesWelcome to the scintillating sixtieth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!The 1990s are generally considered a difficult time for 2000 AD as sales took a hit, the 'Summer Offensive' brought controversy, and there was THAT film... John Tomlinson was there on the ground and witnessed the siesmic challenges the comic faced first hand as one of the few people who have been 'Tharg the Mighty'. John talks to Molch-R about his career in comics and navigating the rapids of editing the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.During the pandemic the Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast weekly – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline​​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the fantastic fifty-ninth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!This week Molch-R welcomes artist Charlie Adlard for a mammoth chat about his career, from the difficult lows to the giddying highs - from working on Judge Dredd and Armitage for 2000 AD to the spectacular success of The Walking Dead, his long-running comic book series with Robert Kirkman which thanks to the TV show adaptation has become a global phenomenon. And after one and a half decades, how has he charted his way through the myriad options available to him? Along the way, they talk about the nature of working in commercial comics versus creator-owned, dealing with the TV industry, the evolution of his style, and why he really didn't want to draw a Formula One car.During the pandemic the Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast weekly – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.