David Baillie (comics)

David Baillie is a writer and artist best known for creating the Vertigo comic series Red Thorn, and for writing stories for 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine - for which he also once wrote a monthly column describing his life as a comics creator.[1]

David Baillie
NationalityScottish
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
2000 AD, Red Thorn for Vertigo
http://www.davidbaillie.net

Biography

David Baillie was born in Whitburn, West Lothian in 1977. At university he studied electrical engineering, moved to London in 1999 and worked there for two years as a computer programmer in an investment bank before quitting that job to become an artist.[2]

In 2010 Baillie was engaged as artist-in-residence for visual arts centre Firstsite in Colchester.[3]

In 2011 he took part in the successful group effort to break the Guinness World Records for the fastest comic-book ever produced and the largest number of creators working on a single comic, with proceeds going to Yorkhill Hospital.[4]

In 2013 he was one of a number of professional writers commissioned to write a novel for Amazon Publishing's Kindle Worlds line featuring the Valiant Comics character Bloodshot[5]

In 2014 he was interviewed in Judge Dredd Megazine issue 344 by Matthew Badham about his comics career to date.[6]

It was announced at San Diego ComicCon 2015 that Baillie would write a new series for Vertigo called Red Thorn, set in modern day Glasgow exploring Scottish mythology, featuring art by Meghan Hetrick, colours by Steve Oliff, (latterly Nick Filardi) and letters by Todd Klein.[7]

In 2017 Baillie appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with Rob Davis to discuss Comics of a Deadly Kind and the inspiration and publication history of his series Red Thorn.[8]

At the beginning of 2018 it was announced that Baillie would write the return of classic Judge Dredd character Chopper with Mad Max's Brendan McCarthy on art.[9]

In 2018 Baillie was interviewed for the Scotland's Futures Forum film Our Future Scotland, along with Scottish writers, artists, politicians and actors, including Brian Cox, Nicola Sturgeon and Christopher Brookmyre.[10]

In 2019 Baillie's Chopper stories were collected by Rebellion and he wrote a graphic novel celebrating the thrash metal band Megadeth's greatest hits international tour.[11]

In 2020 Baillie revisited the history of classic 2000AD character The Gronk, produced several Judge Dredd tales with new Scottish artist Anna Morozova and contributed a number of short stories to Rebellion's Judge Dredd Prose collection, Judge Fear’s Big Day Out and Other Stories.[12] In May he and Conor Boyle created a story called “Revenge of the Cicatrix” for Heavy Metal Magazine.[13] He also wrote and drew a short web series of unconnected comic stories for Webtoon called Paraverse.[14]

Selected bibliography

Vertigo / DC Comics
  • Red Thorn, ongoing series, with art by Meghan Hetrick, letters by Todd Klein (2015)
  • "Night of the Black Stant" in Vertigo CMYK K, with art by Will Morris, letters by Todd Klein (2015)

2000 AD
  • "The Ghostship Mathematica" with art by Inaki Miranda/Eva de la Cruz, (Progs 1827 to 1829)
  • "After the Vengeance" with art by Jon Davis-Hunt, (Progs 1870 to 1873)
  • "The Flowers of Viber Hinge" with art by Paul Marshall, Prog 1873
  • "A Guide for Prisoners Arriving from the Year 2149" with art by Warren Pleece, (Prog 1786)
  • "Silent Running", with art by Anthony Williams (comics), (Prog 1787)
  • "Birth of the Mazzikim", with art by Jesus Redondo, (Prog 1737)
  • "The Death Magnetic", with art by Will Morris, (Prog 1836)
  • "Time is the Only Enemy, art by Graeme Neil Reid and Letters by Simon Bowland, (Prog 1837)
  • "The Crow Gifts", art by Joshua George, Letters by Ellie De Ville, (Prog 1958)

Judge Dredd Megazine
  • "The Unfortunate Case of High-Altitude Albert", with art by Joel Carpenter, (Meg 317)
  • "And Death Must Die", with art by Jake Lynch, (Meg 348)
  • "Dead Man Talking", Judge Dredd prose story, (Meg 339)
  • "Too Hottie To Handle", Judge Dredd prose story, (Meg 354)
  • "Prophet of Stomm", Judge Dredd Black Museum art by Steve Austin, (Meg 357)
  • Chopper: "Wandering Soul", with art by Brendan McCarthy, (Meg 395-399)

References
  1. "Overspill: Because I wanted to talk to...David Baillie (Part Two)". 29 December 2007. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. "'Everyone else wanted to be a football player and I wanted to write and draw comics': Face to Face with David Baillie". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. "WHAAM! At firstsite with David Baillie | Tweeterview". Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. "Kapow Guinness World Record Special #One-Shot by Marvel Comics | Comic Book Information | StashMyComics.com". www.stashmycomics.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  5. "David Baillie Talks Bloodshot: Portal 666". 8 February 2014. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. "BARNEY -- prog zone". www.2000ad.org. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  7. "Comic-Con: DC/Vertigo's 'Red Thorn' Explores Scottish Mythology". The Hollywood Reporter. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. "David Baillie & Rob Davis". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  9. "Durham Red and Chopper Return to 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine". 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  10. "Our Future Scotland | Scotland's Futures Forum". August 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  11. "Megadeth will celebrate their 35th anniversary with new graphic novel". 11 March 2019. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  12. "Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories". Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  13. "David Baillie, Conor Boyle and other British creators feature in upcoming Heavy Metal Magazine". 11 March 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  14. "PARAVERSE". www.webtoons.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
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