Boo Cook
Encyclopedia
Boo Cook is a British
comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic 2000 AD.
and Judge Dredd
, as Asylum (written by Rob Williams) and Dead Men Walking (written by David Bishop
).
In 2005, Cook graduated to regular work on the flagship story on 2000 AD, Judge Dredd
, mostly to scripts by Gordon Rennie
and Simon Spurrier
. With Spurrier he developed new comedy character Harry Kipling
.
Boo Cook started and contributed to the 2000AD Online Charity Auction. Cook has also been providing the art for the latest Judge Anderson
stories by Alan Grant, and providing cover artwork on titles such as Marvel
's X-Factor
, the Elephantmen
: War Toys prequel mini-series, and subsequently, the interior art for Elephantmen #21.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic 2000 AD.
Career
Cook's art has appeared in the ABC WarriorsABC Warriors
ABC Warriors is a long-running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills, which first appeared in prog 119 in 1979 and continues to run today. Art for the opening episodes was by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Brett Ewins, and Brendan McCarthy - who between them designed the original seven members of...
and Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
, as Asylum (written by Rob Williams) and Dead Men Walking (written by David Bishop
David Bishop
David Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....
).
In 2005, Cook graduated to regular work on the flagship story on 2000 AD, Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
, mostly to scripts by Gordon Rennie
Gordon Rennie
Gordon Rennie is a comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy....
and Simon Spurrier
Simon Spurrier
Simon Spurrier is a British comics writer, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller and an art director for the BBC.Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for 2000 AD, like Lobster Random, Bec & Kawl, The Simping Detective and Harry...
. With Spurrier he developed new comedy character Harry Kipling
Harry Kipling
Harry Kipling is a character in 2000 AD created by Simon Spurrier and Boo Cook. He is a True Brit, trying to survive in a world of rampant Pantheistic solipsism aided only by strong tea and a big gun.-Plot:...
.
Boo Cook started and contributed to the 2000AD Online Charity Auction. Cook has also been providing the art for the latest Judge Anderson
Judge Anderson
Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division. It was created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian...
stories by Alan Grant, and providing cover artwork on titles such as Marvel
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
's X-Factor
X-Factor (comics)
X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is a spin-off of the popular X-Men franchise, featuring characters from X-Men stories. The series has been relaunched several times with different team rosters, most recently as X-Factor Investigations.X-Factor launched in...
, the Elephantmen
Elephantmen
Elephantmen is an American ongoing monthly comic book published by Image Comics and written by Richard Starkings with art by Moritat and a number of other artists...
: War Toys prequel mini-series, and subsequently, the interior art for Elephantmen #21.
Comics
- Tharg's Future ShocksFuture ShocksFuture Shocks is the name given to a long running series of short strips in the weekly comic 2000 AD in 1977. The name originates in a book titled Future Shock, written by Alvin Toffler, published in 1970.-Publishing history:...
:- "Home from the War" (with Steve MooreSteve Moore (comics)Steve Moore is a British comics writer.Moore is credited with showing acclaimed writer Alan Moore , then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts...
, in 2000 AD #1208, 2000) - "Earth Works" (with Dan AbnettDan AbnettDan Abnett is a British comic book writer and novelist. He is a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, including 2000 AD...
, in 2000 AD #1233, 2001) - "Sex Machine" (with Simon SpurrierSimon SpurrierSimon Spurrier is a British comics writer, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller and an art director for the BBC.Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for 2000 AD, like Lobster Random, Bec & Kawl, The Simping Detective and Harry...
, in 2000 AD #1264, 2001) - "Skin Game" (with Steve Moore, in 2000 AD #1268, 2001)
- "Goldie Locke & the Three B.E.A.R.s" (with Andrew Lewis, in 2000 AD #1288, 2002)
- "Home from the War" (with Steve Moore
- ABC WarriorsABC WarriorsABC Warriors is a long-running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills, which first appeared in prog 119 in 1979 and continues to run today. Art for the opening episodes was by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Brett Ewins, and Brendan McCarthy - who between them designed the original seven members of...
: "The Zero Option" (with Pat MillsPat MillsPat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since....
, in 2000 AD #1243-1245, 2001)
- Asylum (with Rob Williams, tpb, April 2007, ISBN 1904265677):
- "Asylum" (in 2000 AD #1313-1321, 2002)
- "Asylum 2" (in 2000 AD #1406-1414, 2004)
- Dead Men Walking (with David BishopDavid BishopDavid Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....
as "James Stevens", in 2000 AD #1362-1370, 2003)
- Judge DreddJudge DreddJudge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
:- "Doppelganger" (with Ben Dickson, in ZarjazZarjazZarjaz is a comics anthology fanzine for the long-running British science fiction comic 2000 AD.-Publication history:Zarjaz was started in 2001 by Andrew J Lewis and ran for four issues. The fanzine contained comic strips based on various 2000 AD characters and also ran an in-depth interview with...
(vol. 2) #1, 2005) - "Descent" (with Gordon RennieGordon RennieGordon Rennie is a comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy....
, in 2000 AD #1432-1436, 2005) - "In the Stomm" (with Simon Spurrier, in Judge Dredd MegazineJudge Dredd MegazineJudge Dredd: The Megazine is a monthly British comic magazine, launched in October 1990. It is a sister publication to 2000 AD. Its name is a play on words, formed from "magazine" and Dredd's locale Mega-City One.-Content:...
#236, 2005) - "The Listener" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #265, 2007)
- "The Biographer" (with Rob Williams, in 2000 AD #1537, 2007)
- "The Slow Walk" (with Rob Williams, in 2000 AD #1698, 2010)
- "Doppelganger" (with Ben Dickson, in Zarjaz
- Harry KiplingHarry KiplingHarry Kipling is a character in 2000 AD created by Simon Spurrier and Boo Cook. He is a True Brit, trying to survive in a world of rampant Pantheistic solipsism aided only by strong tea and a big gun.-Plot:...
(with Simon Spurrier):- "Prologue" (in 2000 AD #1476, 2006)
- "Mad Gods & Englishmen" (in 2000 AD #1481-1483, 2006)
- "Whetting the Whistle" (in 2000AD #1492-1493, 2006)
- "Something for Nothing" (in 2000AD #1497-1499, 2006)
- "The Hitman and Hermoth" (in 2000AD #1509-ongoing, 2006)
- "Team Titanic!" (with Al EwingAl EwingAl Ewing is a British comics writer who has mainly worked in the small press and for 2000 AD.-Biography:Al Ewing began his career writing stories in the five-page Future Shocks format for 2000AD...
, in The End Is NighThe End Is NighThe End Is Nigh was an annual British fanzine edited by Michael Molcher. It was launched at the Bristol Comic Expo in 2005 and, since becoming a semi-annual publication, each subsequent issue is also launched there....
#3, 2006)
- Anderson: Psi DivisionJudge AndersonJudge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division. It was created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian...
(with Alan Grant):- "Wiierd" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #272-276, 2008)
- "Biophyle" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #277-278, 2008)
- "The House of Vyle" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #300-304, 2010)
- Damnation Station (with Al Ewing):
- "The Feelings That You Lack" (in 2000 AD #1681, 2010)
- "The Sun Always Shines" (in 2000 AD #1682-1684, 2010)
Covers
Cover work includes:- 2000AD #1342, 1365, 1368, 1411, 1413, 1422, 1436, 1454, 1471, 1492, 1500, 1509, 1532 and 1561 (2003-)
- The End Is NighThe End Is NighThe End Is Nigh was an annual British fanzine edited by Michael Molcher. It was launched at the Bristol Comic Expo in 2005 and, since becoming a semi-annual publication, each subsequent issue is also launched there....
#2 - 2000AD Winter Special (2005)
- Judge Dredd MegazineJudge Dredd MegazineJudge Dredd: The Megazine is a monthly British comic magazine, launched in October 1990. It is a sister publication to 2000 AD. Its name is a play on words, formed from "magazine" and Dredd's locale Mega-City One.-Content:...
#254 and 274 (2007) - ElephantmenElephantmenElephantmen is an American ongoing monthly comic book published by Image Comics and written by Richard Starkings with art by Moritat and a number of other artists...
: War Toys #1-3 (2007–2008) - X-FactorX-Factor (comics)X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is a spin-off of the popular X-Men franchise, featuring characters from X-Men stories. The series has been relaunched several times with different team rosters, most recently as X-Factor Investigations.X-Factor launched in...
: The Quick and the Dead (July 2008) - "WolverineWolverine (comics)Wolverine is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Born as James Howlett and commonly known as Logan, Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing...
: Dangerous Games" (August 2008) - X-FactorX-Factor (comics)X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is a spin-off of the popular X-Men franchise, featuring characters from X-Men stories. The series has been relaunched several times with different team rosters, most recently as X-Factor Investigations.X-Factor launched in...
#33-37 (September 2008) - "X-Factor Special: Layla Miller" (October 2008)
Other work
In 2010 Boo Cook provided the artwork for the debut album of British Alt Rock band The Longest DayExternal links
- Boo Cook at 2000AD online.com
- Boo Cook's blog