Brendan McCarthy is a British artist and designer who has worked for comic books, film and television.
18 Facts About Brendan McCarthy
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Brendan McCarthy created the independent comic book Sometime Stories with art college pal Brett Ewins.
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Brendan McCarthy's first paid commercial work was a one-page strip Electrick Hoax in the British weekly music paper Sounds with another art-school escapee, writer Peter Milligan, in 1978.
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Brendan McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at the Car Breaker Gallery in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia.
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Brendan McCarthy started working for 2000 AD, including runs on Judge Dredd, as well as creating Sooner or Later and post-apocalyptic surfing story Freakwave with Peter Milligan.
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In 1983 Brendan McCarthy collaborated with Milligan and Brett Ewins on Strange Days, an anthology title published by Eclipse Comics.
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Brendan McCarthy drew a two-issue series featuring his alternative "media-brat superhero" Paradax from the anthology.
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Brendan McCarthy designed the characters for Grant Morrison's Zenith strip which started in 1987, Doom Patrol and on Morrison and Mark Millar's Marvel series Skrull Kill Krew.
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Brendan McCarthy produced covers and character designs for Pete Milligan's revamp of Shade, the Changing Man.
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Brendan McCarthy's comic had new takes on characters such as The Flash, Batman, and Johnny Sorrow and he considers the single issue to be one of his best works.
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In 2009, Brendan McCarthy was commissioned by Marvel Comics to create a new take on Doctor Strange.
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Brendan McCarthy wrote and drew a graphic novel titled Dream Gang for the publisher that was released in July 2016.
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Brendan McCarthy completed artwork on a new Chopper strip for Rebellion Publishing in 2018 and a sequel to The Zaucer of Zilk, published in 2020 in 2000AD.
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Brendan McCarthy was as designer on the films Highlander, the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Lost in Space and The Borrowers.
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Brendan McCarthy was hired by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to write and design visual gags to the film Coneheads.
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Brendan McCarthy spent much of the remainder of the 1990s working in film and television, most notably as the production designer of the international hit CGI animated science fiction TV series ReBoot and as the character creator for War Planets.
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Brendan McCarthy was then asked to co-write and design Mad Max: Fury Road with director George Miller after meeting in Hollywood.
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The film was shot in 2012, with Brendan McCarthy visiting the set in Namibia.