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Y'know, it's curious how seemingly unrelated things are connected in some way. Case in point, the recently deceased STEVE MOORE, who started his not insignificant career as an office boy at ODHAMS, and then had a major impact on British comics over nearly the next fifty years.
At one time (after the demise of WHAM!) my favourite weekly comic was FANTASTIC, which Steve was involved with as a teenager, even appearing in a superhero costume (on the letters page of issue #50) which a reader had designed, stitched together, and sent in.
Steve also created the THARG'S FUTURE SHOCKS format for 2000 A.D., and it was one such strip which was my first professional IPC lettering assignment when I started freelancing for them at the start of 1985 (having been assured of work by editor STEVE MacMANUS in '84).
Just think - if Steve Moore hadn't created the format, there may never have been an opportunity for me to work for IPC, as it may have been harder for Stevie-Mac to put me on a strip already being regularly lettered by someone else. The individual nature of the Future Shock strips however, allowed for different contributors per episode, thus giving me an opening into the comics business.
So, just as I'm grateful to Steve MacManus for giving me a chance to work on 2000 A.D. to begin with, I'm just as grateful to Steve Moore (whom I never met as far as I'm aware), for creating the series that gave me my break into the industry, and a fifteen year career working on, amongst others, IPC's top-selling comic at that time.
As I said - curious how things are connected, eh?
Holy Coincidence! I was looking at Fantastic 50 last night. Young Steve as Flash Man.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe he's now no longer with us, eh, Dougie?
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