chosen by Robin Smith
Pictures from a burnt book taken with a broken phone, to honour an artist who, more than any other, helped me realise my place was among monsters. The book is the 1988 2000AD annual – published in 1987 – and the pictures are from a feature asking its creative team of "droids" to choose their favourite covers from previous year. Of the eighteen images chosen, six are by Kevin O'Neill. Hyperbole is the comic book's stock-in-trade, but "thrill power" was a real thing, and O'Neill drew covers you just really wanted to show people, like something inexplicable found under a hedge or a world opening up in your satchel. Sorry for these poor reproductions but maybe new-comers shouldn't see these too clearly...
chosen by Glenn Fabry
chosen by Brendan McCarthy
chosen by Pat Mills
chosen by Bryan Talbot
And Kevin O'Neill operated on my brain. Thanks, Kevin, and I'm deeply sorry you left today.
2000AD honours him here.
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