Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.
Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy. Bad Company was a science fiction war story in 2000AD, it was immensely popular and helped Milligan become better known.
Concurrently, Milligan, Ewin...
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Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.
Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy. Bad Company was a science fiction war story in 2000AD, it was immensely popular and helped Milligan become better known.
Concurrently, Milligan, Ewins and McCarthy had been working on the anthology title, Strange Days for Eclipse Comics. Strange Days featured three strips, Paradax, Freakwave and Johnny Nemo. Milligan, McCarthy and Ewins produced three issues of this psychedelic comic, it was not a great seller but it picked up a small, loyal readership. The most conventional strip, Johnny Nemo, had its own series while the more quirky Paradax had a two issue series published by Vortex Comics in 1987.
By 1989 Milligan was swapping between more conventional strips such as Bad Company, while...
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