{"id":6128,"date":"2015-02-17T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:26:52","slug":"brett-ewins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/02\/17\/brett-ewins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Ewins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brett<\/p>\n

\nBritish comics Twitter this afternoon was rocked by the news that legendary 2000AD, Deadline, Johnny Nemo and Skreemer artist Brett Ewins had died. He had been one of those artists that never quite gotten the recognition they deserved but who was quietly influential to whole generations of artists, his influence noticable in people like Jamie Hewlett or Kieron Gillen. He was also one of the people responsible for what you might call the housestyle of 2000AD, a somewhat exagerrated, loose and kinetic style of cartooning that was like nothing seen in either American or British comics before. I personally first encountered his work on the “Universal Soldier” story from prog 750, during that glorious year or two I bought 2000AD weekly back in 1990-1992.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"BrettBrett Ewins, Jamie Hewlett, Steve Dillon (L-R) at the Deadline offices.<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n

\nAs Joe Gordon puts it in the Forbidden Planet blog<\/a>, Ewins was an essential figure in the UK comics scene of the eighties and nineties:\n<\/p>\n

\nAn utterly seminal figure for readers, especially of my generation growing up with 2000 AD and then, perfectly timed for us as we got that bit older, Deadline and other works, experimenting, pushing, improving, changing, pushing the nature of comics artwork and design (and in the case of Deadline, quite simply making comics cool \u2013 how well I remember my copies being borrowed by friends at college who hadn\u2019t read a comic since they were kids, a perfect Cool Britannia mix of innovative comics, fresh, hip, hungry talent \u2013 being so nurtured by a generous Brett as many of them will tell you \u2013 and music and style, it was intoxicating, it was exciting).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British comics Twitter this afternoon was rocked by the news that legendary 2000AD, Deadline, Johnny Nemo and Skreemer artist Brett Ewins had died. He had been one of those artists that never quite gotten the recognition they deserved but who was quietly influential to whole generations of artists, his influence noticable in people like Jamie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2204],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","tag-brett-ewins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11200,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/11200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}