The 200 Club

Art and design by Robin Smith; small Giant Poster by Dave Gibbons

 As of this Monday – 7^th September 2015* - there have been 1,947 2000 AD Progs, 363 Judge Dredd Megazines, 116 special issues (Annuals and such), all still going. Not to mention the now defunct spin-off comics StarLord, Tornado, Crisis and Revolver (with specials, a total of 114 issues). That’s a lot of comics (2,540, to be precise**).

I don’t know about you, but I kind of thought most of those comics were made by largely the same smallish group of people. In fact, most writers, artists, editors and designers have barely managed 10% of that total amount.

Words by John Wagner; Art by Ian Gibson

All this preamble to set up the story so far. I give you the 2000 AD 200 club: those mighty few who have racked up more than 200 individual episodes of input to the galaxy’s greatest comic. (Asterisks (not Asterixes) denote names of people who are still actively contributing new material. I’ll let you work out the colour coding for yourself).

And yes, it is insane that John Wagner, by writing multiple stories at the same time, has managed to amass a greater total score than the number of individual qualifying comics.

 

1	John Wagner*	2623
2	Alan Grant*	1601
3	Pat Mills*	1290
4	Steve Macmanus	1114
5	Carlos Ezquerra*	1032
6	Matt Smith*	841
7	Pye Parr	835
8	Steve Cook	733
9	Dan Abnett*	731
10	Chris Blythe*	691
11	Alan McKenzie	677
12	Robin Smith	562
13	Richard Burton	547
14	Robbie Morrison*	525
15	Gordon Rennie*	515
16	Massimo Belardinelli RIP	490
17	David Bishop	469
18	Ian Gibson	421
19	Steve Yeowell*	419
20	Gerry Finley-Day	382
21	John Smith*	368
22	Simon Davis*	364
23	Henry Flint*	360
24	Ian Edginton*	349
25	Colin McNeil*	295
26	John Tomlinson	283
27	Kev O’Neill	280
28	Clint Langley*	276
29	Ron Smith	260
30	Cam Kennedy	249
31	John Burns*	248
32	Garth Ennis	245
33	D’Israeli*	228
34	Brett Ewins RIP	227
35	Rob Williams*	225
36	Anthony Williams*	220
37	Mark Millar	218
38	Tom Tully†	217
39	Kevin Walker	213
40	Dave Gibbons	210
41	Peter Milligan	207
42	Simon Fraser*	203
43	Cliff Robinson*	203
44	Paul Marshall*	202
45	Gary Caldwell*	201

Issue 200 of the Megainze (the next was actually numbered 201, ending years of confusing numbering)
Art & Design by Malcolm Hulme and Graham Rolfe

 In case you were wondering, the blog doesn’t stop here. I’m going to keep at it for some time yet…

Words by Pat Mills; Art by Kevin O'Neill

*Apologies to any Americans reading this blog. But seriously, dudes, the day of the month goes first, not the month of the day.

**Two points for extreme nerdiness and making a Tintin reference.

†Huge apologies to Tom Tully – my original count missed out a whole chunk of episodes, written under a pseudonym, giving him a lower score. I’ll get him a proper blog entry very soon, but sadly out of sequence. I don’t suppose Mr Tully actually cares.