Alan Grant

Alan has written many stories for 2000ad including Judge Dredd. His work then found an international audience at DC Comics, with Lobo, Batman and The Demon amongst his many successes. Alan also writes screenplays for TV and film, and has recently adapted Stevenson's Kidnapped and Jekyl and Hide stories as graphic novels.

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Alan began his writing career in comics at DC Thomson in the 1970s, and soon moved to IPC Magazines in London where he became a regular scriptwriter on the flourishing 2000AD weekly. Amongst his many hits were Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd and Blackhawk. His work then found an international audience with DC Comics, with Lobo, Batman and The Demon amongst his many successes.

1991 saw the publication of the hugely-successful graphic novel Judgement On Gotham, featuring Batman and Judge Dredd. Illustrated by Simon Bisley, the book went on to break all publishing records at the time, and remains a best-seller to this day.

He began his creative partnership with Tony Luke in 1989 with Psychonauts for Marvel Japan. Illustrated by Motofumi Kobayashi, this was the first-ever east-west comics collaboration, and this led on to Kodansha requesting a new version of Dominator for Comic Afternoon. Scripted by Alan and illustrated by Tony, the series was a huge hit with the Japanese readership, and was the first-ever original UK comics series to be sold to the Japanese market.In 1998, Alan wrote the script for Archangel Thunderbird, a live-action/stop-motion TV pilot for the Sci-Fi Channel. This marked the first time the central Dominator quartet of Alan, Tony, Yasushi Nirasawa and Doug Bradley worked together, and the result was a surprise ratings success on its initial broadcast in the UK.

As well as writing the scripts for the first Dominator movie, the Heavy Metal crossover, and the next Renga movie, Alan has scripted for TV’s Ace Lightning, the Action Man: Robot Attack movie, and also wrote the character profiles for Lego’s acclaimed Bionicle movie series. His offbeat comedy/ drama comic creation, The Bogey Man (co-created with writer John Wagner and artist Robin Smith), was filmed by the BBC in 1992 and starred Harry Potter’s Robbie Coltrane.

A keen collector of esoterica and vinyl records, Alan lives and works with his wife Sue in their castle at Moniaive, Scotland. Their next-door neighbours are none other than internationally-successful art-rock band Franz Ferdinand, who are regular visitors to Alan's Billiards Room. They are also the proud owners of a large black-and-white cat named Thomson.

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