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This article is about the editor and writer. For the athlete, see David Bishop (athlete)

David Bishop is the New Zealand born editor of British comics the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD.

Generally agreed to have been the man who began to reverse the steep decline in sales suffered by both titles in the early 1990's, Bishop has been responsible for discovering many new British talents, including:

He also, with collaborator Roger Langridge, contributed the insane asylum-set strip The Straitjacket Fits.

Since leaving 2000AD in the year 2000, Bishop has enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer, working on novels of Doctor Who, Judge Dredd and Nikolai Dante, as well as The Phantom.

Paradoxically, despite his successes as a comics editor and as a writer of prose, Bishop has mostly failed in his freelance strip work, some of which are generally recognised as among the worst comic strips ever to appear in 2000AD or the Megazine, including The Spacegirls, a badly executed parody of the Spice Girls, Dead Men Walking, with art by Boo Cook, and the comics adaptation of A Life Less Ordinary, with art by Steve Yeowell. His work on The Phantom could however be considered some of his finest comics work yet. He has won awards for writing the "Best Phantom story of the year" for Egmont on several occasions.

Bishop's history of 2000AD, in a series of articles under the banner name of Thrill Power Overload, is the most comprehensive currently available.

Bibliography

Comics

  • Fiends of the Eastern Front: Stalingrad (in Judge Dredd Megazine 245-252)
  • The Phantom (Swedish Fantomen magazine #26/2001, #15 & 22/2002, #8, 16 & 26/2003, #7, 12, 16, 23, 24 & 26/2004, #1, 10, 13, 17 & 18/2005, #7 & 8/2006)
  • Dead Men Walking (in 2000 AD # 1362-1370, 2003) (As "James Stevens")
  • Past Imperfect (in 2000 AD # 1315, 2002) (As "James Stevens")
  • Pulp Sci-Fi (in 2000 AD # 1098, 1998) (As "James Stevens")
  • A Life Less Ordinary (uncredited, in 2000 AD # 1063-1070, 1997)
  • Space Girls (development & uncredited co-writer, in 2000 AD # 1062-1066, 1997)
  • Vector 13 (uncredited, in 2000 AD # 1032, 1997)
  • Strontium Dogs (pseudonymous rewrites, in 2000 AD # 993-999, 1996)
  • Soul Sisters (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 2-9 & 1993 Judge Dredd Yearbook, 1992)
  • The Straitjacket Fits (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # 9-20 & 1993 Judge Dredd Yearbook, 1991-92)

Novels

Audio Dramas

  • Sarah Jane Smith - Buried Secrets (2006, Big Finish Productions)
  • Sarah Jane Smith - Snow Blind (2006, Big Finish Productions)
  • Sarah Jane Smith - Fatal Consequences (2006, Big Finish Productions)
  • Sarah Jane Smith - Dreamland (2006, Big Finish Productions)
  • Sarah Jane Smith - Test of Nerve (2002, Big Finish Productions)
  • Doctor Who - Unbound: Full Fathom Five (Big Finish Productions)
  • Sapphire & Steel - All Fall Down (2005, Big Finish Productions)
  • Judge Dredd - Wanted: Dredd or Alive (Big Finish Productions)
  • Judge Dredd - War Crimes (Big Finish Productions)
  • Judge Dredd - Death Trap! (Big Finish Productions)
  • Judge Dredd - The Big Shot! (Big Finish Productions)
  • Judge Dredd - Get Karter! (Big Finish Productions)

External links

2000 AD creators | Comics writers | Doctor Who writers | Living people | New Zealand writers

 

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