Jock

hey · 27 Febbraio 2011, 01:06:02

Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a British comics artist, best known for his work in 2000 AD and on The Losers.

Career

Jock began his professional career at 2000 AD, on series including Judge Dredd and Lenny Zero, the latter with writer Andy Diggle.

It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on The Losers and Green Arrow: Year One. Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former 2000 AD writer, Jock worked on an issue of Hellblazer and the Faker limited series, returning the character John Constantine in the graphic novel Hellblazer: Pandemonium with Jamie Delano. Following his run on Green Arrow he got more work on main DC universe titles, in particular two storylines on Detective Comics, the first featuring Batwoman and the second Batman.

Bibliography

Interior comics work includes:

* Pulp Sci-Fi: "Reapermen" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1170, 1999)

* Judge Dredd:
o "Shirley Temple of Doom" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1193-1196, 2000)
o "Crossing Ken Dodd" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1214, 2000)
o "DeadRinger" (with John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #65, 2000)
o "Ten Years" (with John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #70, 2000)
o "Rampots" (with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #1231, 2001)
o "Safe Hands" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1273, 2002)
o "Tartan Terrors" (with Gordon Rennie, in 2000 AD #1540, 2007)

* Lenny Zero (with Andy Diggle, collected in Mega-City Undercover , 160 pages, Rebellion, January 2008, ISBN 1905437528)):
o "Lenny Zero" in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #68, 2000)
o "Dead Zero" in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 4 #1-2, 2001)
o "Wipeout" in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 4 #14-15, 2002)

* Tor Cyan (with John Tomlinson):
o "Rahab" (in 2000 AD #1295, 2002)
o "Phage" (in 2000 AD #1296, 2002)
o "No Such Place" (in 2000 AD #1297-1299, 2002)

* Hellblazer:
o "The Game of Cat and Mouse" (with Mike Carey, Hellblazer #181, Vertigo, 2003)
o Pandemonium (with Jamie Delano, graphic novel, 128 pages, Titan Books, March 2010, ISBN 1845768655, Vertigo, February 2010, ISBN 1401220355)

* The Losers (with Andy Diggle, DC, 32 issues, 2003–2006)
* Faker (with Mike Carey, 6 issue limited series, Vertigo, July 2007 - January 2008, tpb, April 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1663-3)
* Green Arrow: Year One (with Andy Diggle, 6-issue limited series, DC, July–September 2007, tpb, hardcover, 160 pages, Titan Books, May 2008, ISBN 1845767276, DC, April 2008, ISBN 1401216870) [10]
* "Get Mystique (Slight Return)" (with Jason Aaron, in Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3, Marvel Comics, October 2009)

* Detective Comics:
o "Cutter" (with Greg Rucka, in Detective Comics #861-863, DC, January–March 2010)
o "The Black Mirror" (with Scott Snyder, in Detective Comics #871-, DC, forthcoming)
Covers

Cover work includes:

* Scalped #1-11, 13- (Vertigo, March 2007–present)
* Driver (one-shot, Wildstorm, 2010)[12]