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Gary Spencer Millidge
Gary Spencer Millidge
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Inker, Letterer
Notable works	Strangehaven
Awards	"Best Self-Published/Independent Comic" National Comics Award (1997)
	www.millidge.com

Gary Spencer Millidge (born 1961) is a British comic book creator best known for his series Strangehaven. He has also written and contributed to books about comics.

Biography

In 1995 Millidge began his Strangehaven series and in the same month published a short Strangehaven story in the comics anthology Negative Burn.

Strangehaven ran for ten years from 1995 to 2005. In 2014, Millidge returned to the series as part of Soaring Penguin Press‘s anthology magazine Meanwhile^[1].

Millidge also writes about comics, editing Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman and Alan Moore: Storyteller as well as writing Comic Book Design.^[2]

Bibliography

Comics

Comics work includes:

Strangehaven #1- (script and art, Abiogenesis Press, 1995-) collected as:
- Arcadia (collects #1-6, foreword by Dave Sim, 2001 ISBN 0-946790-04-3)
- Brotherhood (collects #7-12, foreword by Bryan Talbot, 2001 ISBN 0-946790-05-1)
- Conspiracies (collects #13-18, foreword by Dave Gibbons, 2005 ISBN 0-946790-07-8)
"Strangehaven: Custard Creams" (script and art, in Negative Burn #24, Caliber Comics, 1995)
"From Hell and Back" (script and art, in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #9, Bongo Comics, 2003)

Non-fiction

Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman (edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, 352 pages, Abiogenesis, December 2003, ISBN 0-946790-06-X)
Comic Book Design: The Essential Guide to Creating Great Comics and Graphic Novels (160 pages, Random House, July 2009, ISBN 0-8230-9796-X)
Alan Moore: Storyteller (336 pages, ILEX, August 2011, ISBN 1-907579-12-5)

Awards

As well as numerous nominations, including one for the 1997 "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" Eisner Award, he won the 1997 "Best Self-Published/Independent Comic" National Comics Award for Strangehaven.

Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman was also nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.

Notes

^ Méalóid, Pádraig Ó (11 December 2014). "Meanwhile, After Nine Years, Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven Is Back..." The Beat. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
^ CR Sunday Interview: Gary Spencer Millidge, The Comics Reporter, July 19, 2009

References

Gary Spencer Millidge at the Grand Comics Database
Gary Spencer Millidge at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

[1] Méalóid, Pádraig Ó (11 December 2014). "Meanwhile, After Nine Years, Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven Is Back..." The Beat. Retrieved 10 September 2024.

[2] CR Sunday Interview: Gary Spencer Millidge, The Comics Reporter, July 19, 2009

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