He moved to London in 1970 to work for publisher IPC as a writer and sub-editor on romance magazines, but after being invited to write a strip for the short-lived Starlord, editor Kelvin Gosnell offered him an editorial position on 2000 AD. Do not be surprised if a close family member suffers an accident!”’ Alan pictured by Kev Hopgood in the Judge Dredd Annual 1991 and at the Moniaive comics festival he ran with his wife Sue ‘”Sagittarius, the stars are against you today - it might be safer to stay inside. ‘It got worse and worse,’ Grant told the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2008. Assigned a horoscope column for the Dundee Daily Courier, he and fellow sub-editors John Hodgman and John Wagner would compete to see who could write the most ridiculous predictions. However, this was leavened by a mischievous and wicked sense of humour that was at times scatalogical and at others soulful.Īfter working briefly in a bank, Alan answered a newspaper advertisement for ‘trainee journalists’ and, at the age of 18, joined DC Thomson, the Dundee-based publisher and home to the Beano, where he met John Wagner and Pat Mills. Through his work he had a profound and enduring influence on 2000 AD and on the comics industry.īorn in Bristol in 1949, he grew up in Scotland where he was frequently beaten by his teachers for being naturally left-handed and regularly expelled, the injustice of his treatment giving him a powerful distaste for authority which saturated his writing. Grant was one of his generation’s finest writers, combining a sharp eye for dialogue and political satire with a deep empathy that made his characters seem incredibly human and rounded. Everyone at 2000 AD and Rebellion is devastated to hear of the passing of Alan Grant.
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