1. Patrick Eamon Mills was born on 1949 and is an English 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.
14 Facts About Pat Mills
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Pat Mills has been called "the godfather of British comics".
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Pat Mills's comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism.
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Pat Mills is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
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Pat Mills took over the development of Judge Dredd when creator John Wagner temporarily walked out, and wrote many of the early stories, establishing the character and his world, before Wagner returned.
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Pat Mills contributed Ro-Busters, a series about a robot disaster squad, which moved to 2000 AD when Starlord was cancelled.
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Ro-Busters was the beginning of a mini-universe of interrelated stories Pat Mills was to create for 2000 AD, including ABC Warriors and Nemesis the Warlock.
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Pat Mills had a hand in IPC's line of comics aimed at girls, such as Chiller, Misty and Jinty.
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Pat Mills has had little success in American comics, with the exception of Metalzoic and Marshal Law, published by DC and Epic comics respectively in the late 1980s, both drawn by O'Neill.
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Pat Mills continues to write Slaine, Bill Savage, Black Siddha and ABC Warriors for 2000 AD, and the Franco-Belgian comic Requiem Vampire Knight, with art by Olivier Ledroit, and its spin-off Claudia Chevalier Vampire, with art by Franck Tacito.
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Pat Mills has formed Repeat Offenders with artist Clint Langley and Jeremy Davis "to develop graphic novel concepts with big-screen potential" and the first project is a graphic novel called American Reaper, serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine.
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Pat Mills has written two Doctor Who audio plays, "Dead London" and "The Scapegoat" for Big Finish Productions, featuring the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller.
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In 2010 Pat Mills adapted a story that had been started by him and Wagner for Doctor Who in the 1980s and was produced by Big Finish as "The Song of Megaptera".
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In 2019 Pat Mills announced that he would publish a new all-ages science fiction anthology comic called Spacewarp, to be released in 2020, and that the artists would retain the copyright on their work.