Dan McDaid explained

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Notable Works:The Crimson Hand, Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero, Firefly, Dega

Dan McDaid is a British comic book writer and artist.

Career

McDaid made his debut in Doctor Who Magazine, after sending a sample strip to then editor Clayton Hickman. His debut work for DWM was as writer of The First, a story where the Doctor meets Ernest Shackleton. He took part in Comic Book Resources' Comic Book Idol 2007, reaching the final three.[1]

He then teamed up with Glen Brunswick for a twelve-issue run on Jersey Gods for Image Comics.

While the television series Doctor Who was off-air, McDaid wrote the 10th Doctor's continuing adventures, published in DWM, then collected in The Crimson Hand. In these stories, the Doctor finds himself with a new companion, Majenta Pryce, whom McDaid had created for the story Hotel Historia.[2] Since then he has worked for Panini Comics, IDW, Oni Press, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios and Blank Slate.

At the 2012 New York Comic Con it was announced that McDaid would be one of the artists on Dark Horse Comics' Catalyst Comix, with writer Joe Casey, released in 2013.[3] [4]

McDaid was the comic book artist on the multi-media project, Vandroid, along with Tommy Lee Edwards. The project includes a 5 issue comic, an album and film.[5] In 2014 he illustrated a story written by Irvine Welsh which was published in IDP:2043, as part of the Edinburgh Book Festival.[6] He worked with Welsh again in 2018, contributing pages of art to his novel Dead Men's Trousers.

Personal life

McDaid is originally fromCornwall, but has lived in the north-east of Scotland since 2003.[7] [8]

Bibliography

DC Comics

IDW

Boom! Studios

Dark Horse Comics

Doctor Who Magazine

Panini Comics

Image Comics

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cardwell . Mark . Talking Doctor Who with CBI Finalist Dan McDaid . Comic Book Resources . April 3, 2022 . April 3, 2008.
  2. Web site: Majenta Pryce (Character) . 2022-12-27 . Comic Vine . en.
  3. Web site: Phegley . Kiel . NYCC: Joe Casey & Dark Horse Reinvent "Catalyst Comix" . Comic Book Resources . April 3, 2022 . October 11, 2012.
  4. Web site: Parkin . John . NYCC A round-up of news from Thursday . Comic Book Resources . April 3, 2022 . October 12, 2012.
  5. Web site: Melrose . Kevin . NYCC '13 Edwards brings 'Vandroid' to Dark Horse . Comic Book Resources . April 3, 2022 . October 10, 2013.
  6. Web site: 2014-04-24 . Irvine Welsh joins team writing dystopian graphic novel . 2022-12-27 . the Guardian . en.
  7. Web site: Evening Telegraph The Courier Combined . 2022-12-27 . The Courier . 21 September 2021 . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Milne . Scott . Dundee artist chosen to illustrate return of Joss Whedon cult classic Firefly . 2022-12-27 . The Courier . 10 July 2018 . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Raynor . Joshua . 2018-08-01 . Dan McDaid Brought On To Finish Up Doom Patrol #12 . 2022-12-27 . DC Comics News . en-US.
  10. Web site: Dietsch . TJ . Moreci Rises To The Challenge Of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" . Comic Book Resources . April 3, 2022 . September 18, 2014.
  11. Web site: Hannah Berry Books Interview The Skinny . 2022-12-27 . www.theskinny.co.uk . en.
  12. Web site: 2011-11-18 . Nelson, edited by Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix – review . 2022-12-27 . the Guardian . en.

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