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Brendan McCarthy is a British artist and designer best known for his work in comic books, film and television.〔(Brendan McCarthy )〕〔Bishop, David (2007) ''Thrill-Power Overload''. Rebellion, 260 pages, ISBN 1-905437-22-6〕 ==Biography== Brendan McCarthy was born in London. As a boy McCarthy soon began drawing his own home-made comics. After leaving Chelsea Art College in London, where he studied film and Fine Art Painting, McCarthy decided to become a full-time artist. He created the independent comic book ''Sometime Stories'' with art college pal Brett Ewins. His first paid commercial work was a one-page strip ''Electrick Hoax'' in the British weekly music paper ''Sounds'' with another art school escapee, writer Peter Milligan in 1978. McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at Frestonia's ''Car Breaker Gallery'' in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia.〔(The Republic of Frestonia. Car Breakers Gallery )〕 McCarthy started working for ''2000 AD'' including Judge Dredd and at the same time he was working on designs for his first television show – the unmade ''Dan Dare'' live-action television series for Lew Grade's ATV in the late 1970s. It was to have been a stylish retro 50's take on the classic ''Eagle'' hero with James Fox as Dan Dare. Inspired by George Miller's ''Mad Max 2'', McCarthy mulled over a post-apocalyptic surfing story, later written with Peter Milligan and called ''Freakwave''. In 1983 McCarthy collaborated with Peter Milligan and Brett Ewins on ''Strange Days'', an anthology title published by Eclipse Comics. He also drew a two issue series featuring his alternative ''media-brat superhero'' Paradax from ''Strange Days''. Returning to the pages of ''2000 AD'', he again drew ''Judge Dredd'', depicting the Judda and Brit-Cit Judges. In 1986, McCarthy and Milligan produced ''Sooner or Later'' for ''2000 AD''. Around this time, McCarthy designed and storyboarded the Arabian cel-animated TV series, ''New Babylon'' and also ''The Storyteller'' for Jim Henson's company. McCarthy designed the characters in Grant Morrison's ''Zenith'' strip which started in 1987,〔Bishop, 2007, page 120〕 Doom Patrol (creating Danny The Street) and on Morrison and Mark Millar's Marvel series ''Skrull Kill Krew''.〔Brevoort, Tom. (Formative Crisis ), Marvel.com, 29 January 2009〕 He also produced covers and character designs for Pete Milligan's revamp of ''Shade, the Changing Man''. Over the next few years he worked for the ''2000 AD'' spin off titles ''Crisis'' and ''Revolver''. For ''Revolver'', McCarthy drew ''Rogan Gosh'' (later compiled into a single edition by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics). For ''Crisis'', he drew ''Skin''. Both books were created with and written by Peter Milligan. ''Skin'' proved to be highly controversial, with ''Crisis'' refusing to release the story and their printers refusing to print it due to claims of it being "morbidly obscene". The story was eventually being released by Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing in 1992. McCarthy worked as designer on the films ''Highlander'', the first live action ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' film, ''Lost in Space'' and ''The Borrowers.'' He was also hired by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to write and design visual gags to the film ''Coneheads''. McCarthy spent much of the remainder of the 1990s working in film and television, most notably as the production designer of the international hit CGI animated science fiction TV series ''ReBoot'' and as the character creator for ''War Planets''. He was then asked to co-write and design ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' with director George Miller. Also with Miller, McCarthy created, co-wrote and designed a new CGI animated feature called ''Fur Brigade.'' In 2004 McCarthy hired Steven Cook to help him design ''Swimini Purpose'', an illustrated visual autobiography of his original art and design work. This was released in 2005 in the UK, as a limited artist's edition. In 2006, McCarthy was featured in the final issue of DC Comics' ''Solo''. His comic had new takes on characters such as The Flash, Batman, and Johnny Sorrow and he considers the single issue to be one of his best works. In 2009, Brendan was commissioned by Marvel Comics to create a new take on Doctor Strange. The bizarre mini-series, ''Spider-Man: Fever'', appeared in April 2010. Brendan returned to ''2000 AD'' in 2010 on a ''Judge Dredd'' story with Al Ewing spoofing the Dr Who TV series, and with whom he would go on to create a popular new story, ''The Zaucer of Zilk'', which he has described as a cross between Harry Potter and Aladdin Sane: "A glammatronic phantasmagoria." The series debuted in March 2012. It was rapidly reprinted by IDW in a new format with both issues quickly selling out. The Zaucer of Zilk comic appeared in many 'best of the year' lists. In 2012, McCarthy traveled to Namibia in Africa, to visit the set of ''Mad Max: Fury Road'', which features his script and designs.〔http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2015/05/27/brendan-mccarthy-goes-full-throttle-for-mad-max-fury-road/〕 He also finished the design and editorial chores for ''The Best of Milligan & McCarthy'', a brand new collection of his most famous comic works co-created with Peter Milligan. Dark Horse released the edition in September 2013 to great acclaim. A new comics project, ''The Deleted,'' described as 'The Matrix meets The Prisoner', was serialised in 'Dark horse Presents' in 2014. It was written with screenwriter Darrin Grimwood. Currently, McCarthy is writing and illustrating the graphic novel 'Dream Gang' for Dark Horse Comics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brendan McCarthy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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