Roger Langridge

Roger Langridge (born 14 February 1967) is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer, currently living in Britain.

Biography

Langridge originally came to public prominence most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane asylum with a cast of characters who realised they were in a comic strip and burst from the edge of the frame.

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.^[1] Langridge also does illustration work.

He has also provided artwork for Shaenon Garrity's Smithson webcomic.

Langridge has provided the Fin Fang Four, with Scott Gray, first for Marvel Monsters,^[2] then a series of short stories^[3][4] and in late 2008 as a digital comic on Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited.^[5]

He is the cartoonist for Boom! Studios The Muppet Show (2009).^[6]

In 2012, he scripted for IDW a four-issue Popeye miniseries, illustrated by Bruce Ozella, so successful that even before the second issue it was expanded into an "ongoing" series, according to Langridge.^[7]

Bibliography

Example of the world of Fred The Clown

Comics

Comic work includes:

• Razor #8 Associates in "Searching" (with writer Cornelius Stone (1988)
• Art d'Ecco (with Andrew Langridge, in Art d'Ecco #1-4, Fantagraphics, 1990–1992)
• Zoot! (with Andrew Langridge - six-issue series, Fantagraphics, 1993–1994)
• Knuckles the Malevolent Nun (with co-creator Cornelius Stone, in Knuckles #1 & 2, 1991 and A1 (Series 1) #5, 1991)
• "Frankenstein Meets Shirley Temple" (in A1 (Series 2) #1-4, 1992)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Sponts A-Go-Go" (with Chris Standley and Paul Peart, Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future #14, 1996)
  • "Medusa" (with Alan Barnes and Paul Peart, Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future #19-20, 1996)

• The Straitjacket Fits (with David Bishop):
  • "The Straitjacket Fits" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.09-1.20, 1991–1992)
  • "The Final Fit" (in Judge Dredd Yearbook 1993 1992)

• Fred the Clown, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, 1999.
• "The Story of a Nut Gone Bad..." (in Flinch #13, DC, 2000)
• Fred the Clown #1-5, self-published, 2001-2002.
• Batman: "Auteurism" (with John Arcudi, in Legends of the Dark Knight #162-163, DC, 2003)
• "Abe Sapien Star of the B.P.R.D." (with John Arcudi, in Hellboy: Weird Tales, #4, Dark Horse, 2003)
• Whatever Happened To?: "Cookie" (with Simon Spurrier, in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.17, 2004)
• Fett Club (with Kevin Rubio, in Star Wars Tales 24, Dark Horse, 2005)
• A story in the Bizarro World anthology, DC, 2005.
• Marvel Monsters: "Fin Fang Four" (with Scott Gray, 2005)
• "Moleman's Christmas" (with Shaenon Garrity, in Marvel Christmas Special #1, Marvel, 2006)
• "How Fin Fang Foom Saves Christmas " (with Scott Gray, in Marvel Christmas Special 2006 #1, Marvel, 2007)
• "Return of the Fin Fang Four: Shrink Rap" (with Scott Gray, in Avengers Giant-Size #1, Marvel, 2008)
• The Muppet Show (Boom Studios, 2009)
• Thor: The Mighty Avenger (Marvel, 2010)
• Muppets Presents: Family Reunion (Marvel, 2011)
• Snarked! #1- (Boom! Studios, 2011- )

Collections

Collections:

• Knuckles the Malevolent Nun 1: No More Mrs. Nice Nun, with Cornelius Stone, Antipodes Publishing, 2003.
• Fred the Clown, Fantagraphics Books, 2004.
• The Louche and Insalubrious Escapades of Art d'Ecco, with Andrew Langridge, Fantagraphics Books, 2006.

For Doctor Who magazine he did one-panel humorous images for the "Review" section. He also does a weekly illustration for the UK TV magazine Inside Soap.

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Bibliography
• Online comics at WebComicsNation
• Roger Langridge at Act-i-vate
• Modern Tales

Interviews

• Interview with Futureal Studio
• "Interview with Roger Langridge", The Comics Reporter, 16 October 2005