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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Roger Langridge Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Writer/artist: The Muppet Show; Snarked!; Fin Fang Four; Popeye; Thor the Mighty Avenger ALTHOUGH he is now famed for his humour comics, Roger Langridge first came to prominence in 1991 as the illustrator of a 15-chapter serial featuring the eponymous Lawman of the Future for Judge Dredd Megazine. The New Zealander had, however, begun his career a year earlier, drawing the four issues of Art d’Ecco for Fantagraphics. Those comics were written by his brother, Andrew with whom he also collaborated on the publisher’s Leather Underwear one-shot as well as on a story for an issue of its Graphic Story Monthly. He then went solo, writing and drawing a contribution to the four issues of Marvel/Epic’s A1 anthology. While working on the Megazine, Langridge – who has been based in London since 1993 – also drew both issues of Fantagraphics’ Knuckles the Malevolent Nun before reuniting with his brother in 1992 for the six issues of Zoot!. Two years later he was contributing to The Big Book of… series published by DC’s Piranha Press imprint. Drawing stories in the first nine volumes of that title took him into 1997 although he fitted in a 1995 four-parter for Dark Horse Presents – with a second following in 1996 – along the way. Going on to draw for another half-dozen volumes of The Big Book of… between 1997 and 2000, Langridge also inked all 14 issues of Gross Point for DC, pencilling a handful of stories for that 1997 along the way. Two years later Langridge’s most famous creation appeared in print for the first time when Les Cartoonistes Dangereux released Fred the Clown, a one-shot that collected the webcomic the writer/artist had premiered earlier in the year. Subsequently he drew strips for a short run on Doctor Who Magazine while also working on DC’s 1999 Bizarro Comics anthology and the first four issues of Graphic Classics for Eureka Productions. In addition he wrote and drew Frankenstein meets Shirley Temple, He released that 2000 one-shot under his own Hotel Fred Press banner through which he would also publish six issues of Fred the Clown, a series he launched in 2001, as well as Muppet Maybes (a collection of unpublished cartoons) in 2008 and Doctor Sputnik two years later. By 2004 most of Langridge’s work was outside comics although he did draw (and co-write) Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four (a 2005 one-shot) as well as illustrating strips in two other one-offs that year: Marvel Holiday Special and Bizarro World, DC’s follow up to Bizarro Comics. He also reworked a story for the following year’’s Marvel Romance Redux: But I thought he Loved Me! #1 and illustrated one for Marvel’s one-off Civil War: Choosing Sides comic. After contributions to a handful of other Marvel anthologies, Langridge revisited a 2005 one-shot for 2008’s four-issue Fin Fang Four before moving over to BOOM! Studios to take on his most high profile project to date. As writer/artist, he produced all four issues of The Muppet Show and of The Muppet Show: The Treasure of Peg Leg Wilson before authoring all 11 issues of The Muppet Show Comic Book that followed in the wake of those 2009 minis. His writing skills then took him back to Marvel for the eight issues of 2010’s Thor the Mighty Avenger after which he returned to BOOM! with another of his creations. While generating the 12 issues of Snarked! Langridge also scripted Marvel’s John Carter A Princess of Mars five-parter in 2011 before joining IDW in 2012 as writer of the 12 issues of Popeye and the four-parter The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror that followed in 2013. After involvement in three Dynamite one-shots – L’il Ernie, L’il Battlestar Galactica and L’il Sonja – the trail took Langridge back to IDW as the artist on Rocky & Bullwinkle, a 2014 four-parter, which he followed with the four-issue Abigail and the Snowman for BOOM!. He is currently writing King: Mandrake the Magician, a series launched by Dynamite in 2015.

Roger Langridge Writer/artist: The Muppet Show, Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four, Snarked! Writer: Popeye, John Carter:– A Princess of Mars, Thor: The Mighty Avenger Langridge originally came to public prominence most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits (written by David Bishop). His cartoon style proved perfect for the series and he continued to work for the Megazine, in addition to a series of comedy books dedicated to his Buster Keaton-inspired character Fred the Clown, which he wrote and drew as a webcomic before self-publishing the material as small press titles. These were collected as a single volume by Fantagraphics Books in 2004. His work on Fred the Clown was nominated for two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Langridge has provided the Fin Fang Four, with Scott Gray, first for Marvel Monsters, then a series of short stories. He was the writer, and usually the cartoonist for, Boom! Studios' The Muppet Show comics, and in 2012, he scripted for IDW a four-issue Popeye miniseries, illustrated by Bruce Ozella.